CPI, an ally of Congress in Punjab, on Wednesday released its poll manifesto in the state differing with its partner on several contentious issues, including judicial probe into the origin of terrorism in Punjab, even as it promised to save the agriculture and industrial sectors in the state. “It is unfortunate that political parties in Punjab, including the Congress and the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), are making non issues as prime poll plank ignoring issues like the impact of WTO on state's agriculture and industrial sectors,” state CPI secretary Joginder Dayal said releasing the manifesto in Chandigarh. The CPI will fight inside and outside the assembly against the so called new reforms under the Diktat of IMF, World Bank and WTO so as to free the country economically and politically, he said. Asserting that the CPI wanted setting up of a judicial commission to probe into the causes for the origin of terrorism in Punjab, Dayal said that his party would put pressure on its partner to change its stand on the issue. Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh had recently announced that his party was not in favour of digging old wounds like causes behind terrorism in the state. “The CPI and the Congress have formed a 'Secular Democratic Front' in the state till polls. The CPI is not for getting seats from its ally,” Dayal said.
He, however, said that the CPI did not want to spoil the prevailing peace in the state.
Dayal said that the left democratic forces would launch a tirade against saffronisation of education and distortion of history.
Bureau Report