Mangalore, Feb 15: The National Executive Council of Popular Front of India has declared February 17 as Popular Front Day, marking the day Popular Front of India was dedicated to the people of India as a national organisation in the historic Empower India Conference held at Bangalore in 2007. On Popular Front Day, Flag hoisting will be held at unit level everywhere in Karnataka.
Each district committee will organise a rally named as 'Unity March', followed by a public meeting. This year, Popular Front Day will highlight the theme “Together for People's Rights” through pamphlets, posters and public addresses.
Popular Front members and well wishers all over the country will celebrate this foundation day as Popular Front Day with various programmes on February 17, 2013. This practice will be followed on the same day in the succeeding years also, informed a release from Abdul Khader Puttur, General Secretary of PFI.
The neo-liberal economic policies being adopted by the government and the intervention of neo-colonial powers in our internal affairs have put in peril the basic needs and fundamental rights of Indian citizens. In spite of claims of development boom, people are largely denied free access even to drinking water and they are left at the mercy of corporate profit mongers for basic needs like food, fuel, cloth and shelter. The National Executive Council of Popular Front has called upon its members, associates, well wishers and public to convey this message of united action for people's rights on the occasion of Popular Front Day.
The new national organisation Popular Front was formed by merging three state organisations that were working in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka.
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