HP CPM’s poll planks: Forests,unemployment

After launching the site,member of state secretariat of the CPM Tikender Panwar said comments received from people showed unemployment as the top agenda in the state,following which the party has decided to highlight it this elections. Firm implementation of NREGA and the Forest Tribal Act are two major issues the party will highlight in the campaign.

Panwar said the CPM would target the BJP for its “anti-Himachal stance and the Congress would be exposed for formulating and adopting capitalist policies”.

“The BJP has failed to protect interests of the state by failing to get equity for the state in various hydro power projects. On one hand,while it refuses to implement the Scheduled Tribe and other Traditional Forest Dwellers’ Act and on the other side,it is allowing private companies to acquire land for cement plants and the contrast needs to be brought in front of the people,” Tikender said.

He also accused the BJP government of breakdown of the public distribution system,privatisation of public services such as medical care and education.

Kuldeep Tanwar,member,state secretariat of the CPM,said the government’s project for setting up primate protection parks to relocate monkeys has been a failure and the strategy to sterilise them is moving at such a slow pace that the population of over three lakh monkeys would take a long time to be controlled.