Mangalore, Oct 15: Condemning the union and state governments, CPI(M) leader Vasanth Achari alleged that the Modi-led government's'Make In India' and Siddaramaiah government's'Make In Karnataka' programmes were brought in merely to protect the interests of capitalists, not for the benefit of the poor as propagated.
He was addressing the protestors at a hunger-strike organised in front of the deputy commissioner's office by the district unit of Karnataka Raitha Sangha urging the government to resolve the issues involving the land rights' of the people.
He said that from several years, there were thousands of families depending on the earnings from crops grown on five to ten cents of land for their livelihood. However, the government is trying to evict these families from their sites, claiming them as land-grabbers by sending them eviction notices from the local panchayats. Due to this, thousands of such families have been reduced to living in the streets, he said.
He said that socialism meant empowering the have-nots; but Siddaramaiah's actions as a socialist with regard to the land rights' of poor families were insulting.
Speaking after launching the hunger-strike, district president of Raitha Sangha K R Shriyan said that although several governments had held power at the centre as well as the state, there was no solution to the problems of poor site-less families. The problems of land rights' were haunting the poor, he said.
Activists such as Balakrishna Shetty, Lokaiah, Krishnappa Salian, Sunil Kumar Bajal, Ramanna Vittal, Narayana, Vasudeva Uchil and others participated in the hunger strike.
Prior to the commencement of the hunger strike, members of the Sangha and others undertook a protest march from Ambedkar Circle to the deputy commissioner's office.
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