Hundreds of party workers took out protest marches across Kerala.
Thiruvananthapuram:
The opposition Congress party today launched a state-wide agitation against the alleged anti-people policies and administrative failure of the Left government in Kerala.
Hundreds of party workers took out protest marches across the southern state, marking the beginning of a three-phase movement called “Pura Vicharana” (testing by citizens).
Party sources said the march was taken to the Secretariat, the administrative center at Thiruvananthapuram and the respective collectorates of other districts.
Marking the state-level inauguration of the movement, KPCC chief K Sudhakaran led the march to the secretariat.
Inaugurating the march in front of the District Collectorate in Kozhikode, VD Satheesan, Leader of the Opposition in the State Assembly, said the decision to launch a mass movement against the CPI(M) government was taken jointly by the Congress and the party-led United Democratic Front. . (UDF).
He said that the movement was started taking up the issues being faced by the people, which were being neglected by the authorities.
Referring to the rising prices of essential commodities, Satisan said the state was witnessing the biggest hike in prices in the last decade, but the Left government had failed to take any steps to bring it under control.
He said that Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has not yet called any meeting in this regard to discuss the hike in prices.
Besides K Sudhakaran and VD Satheesan, several senior leaders, MLAs and MPs led the march in different districts.
As a second phase of agitation against the government, the KPCC is planning two-day vehicle rallies under the aegis of Block Congress Committees in various districts from November 20 to 30.
KPCC sources said thousands of party workers would lay siege to the secretariat in the second week of December as the third and final phase of the protest.
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