SUCI Central Committee’s Mini Election Manifesto

On the occasion of the forthcoming 15th Lok Sabha Election, SUCI Central Committee raises the following Charter of Demands and Programme of movement, to give effect to which the SUCI candidates, if made victorious, will, as elected MPs, carry on incessant and resolute struggle within and outside the Parliament.

1.Central and state governments must bring down the prices of petrol, diesel and kerosene in keeping with the fall in the prices of oil in the international market and by withdrawing all taxes imposed by them.

2.Prices of all commodities must be brought down by strictly curbing hoarding and black marketing. By introducing all-out state trading, all essential commodities must be supplied regularly at low prices through the government distribution system

3.Financial allocation on education, health and social welfare must be increased by slashing allocations for military and administrative expenses.

4.All undemocratic black acts must be scrapped. Detention without trial must be done away with. All political prisoners held without trial must be released forthwith. Attack of police-military on democratic movements with a view to suppressing them must be stopped.

5.Forcible grabbing and destruction of firm lands must be stopped. Policy of setting up industries mainly on non-agricultural land must be pursued. SEZ must be annulled. Effective measures ought to be taken towards ensuring permanent effective control of drought and flood. Rivers-rivulets-canals- ponds and wetlands must be dredged and maintained properly and made pollution-free. Dams or reservoirs must be constructed at every block level for abundant supply of irrigation water. Use of ground water for irrigation purpose must be dispensed with.

6. Poor peasants must be freed from all debt burdens. Interest-free long term government loans must be made available to them by putting an end to the system of forcing them to borrow money from usurers at exorbitant interest-rates. Move towards abolition of landceiling must be abandoned. Peasants should be supplied with fertilizers, seeds, pesticides, power and diesel at amply subsidized low costs. The government must ban wholesale trade of agro-products and instead itself procure these from peasants at fair price.

7. Arrangements must be made for proper drinking water, power, primary school, road construction and health facilities in all villages. Rural labours must be provided with permanent job and fair wages throughout the year.

8.Tampering with BPL lists and corruption in rationing system must stop immediately.

9.All closed industries must be reopened and all retrenched workers – employees reinstated. New industries must be opened. Abolishing posts in the Central and state government establishments must be stopped and all vacant posts must be filled up with fresh appointments. Contract appointment in government as well as private sectors must be abolished and all appointments should be on a permanent basis. Privatization and disinvestment must be stopped. Government ownership on all hitherto privatized industries must be restored. Moratorium on recruitment must be withdrawn. Government should neither support nor extend any help to any move to close down any industry by labelling the same as sick. If necessary, government must take over such industries.

10.Imposing increased burden of income tax and wealth tax on middle class people must be stopped.

11.Interest on small savings must be raised.

12.Right to work must be recognized as fundamental right in the Constitution. All able-bodied men and women must be given permanent job and fair wage according to their ability. Till such permanent jobs are provided, adequate unemployment allowance must be given to them. 13. Right to free education must be recognized as fundamental right in the Constitution. Privatization and fee hike of education must be stopped. The decisions of the ‘National Knowledge Commission’ aimed at destroying education must be scrapped. Universal democratic, secular and scientific education must be introduced at the earliest. Sex education must be stopped. Examination system must be kept in operation by scrapping gradation system of evaluation

13.Hospitals with all modern and developed facilities of medical treatment must be established at the initiative of the Central and state governments at all village panchayats, towns and cities.

14.Commercialization of health service must be stopped. Price of all life-saving drugs must be reduced

15.Dowry system and dowry deaths, female foeticide, torture and trafficking of womenfolk must be stopped with a firm hand.

16.Publicity and spread of pornographic publications, cinema, drama and advertisement materials must be curbed firmly.

17.Rampant spread of all kinds of intoxicating materials, including liquor, drugs etc. must also be curbed with an iron hand.

18.Government must come out of the scheme of capitalist-imperialist globalization. No tie-up with the imperialists including US imperialists should be entered into. Bold resolute stand must be taken against imperialist aggressions round the globe. All military and civilian treaties as well as proposals of undertaking joint military exercises with the US imperialists must be scrapped. US imperialists must get out of Iraq and Afghanistan.

19.Fomenting and pandering to noxious religious-casteist-community and racial conflicts designed with a view to disrupting people’s unity in democratic movements and fulfilling the heinous interest of creating vote-banks must be stopped.

20.State terrorism must be stopped immediately.

21.Despotic Armed Forces and Special Power Act must be withdrawn.

22.High-handedness of bureaucracy must be curbed. Corruption must be extirpated from all levels of administration.

23.Administrative neutrality must be restored.

24.Low-cost, neutral and rapid justice at all levels of judiciary must be ensured.

25.Unearth and confiscate all illegally accumulated black money in the country including those lying as bank deposit in foreign countries.

Contact Socialist Unity Center of India

Kolkutta:
Sukomal Dasgupta
48 Lenin Sarani,
Kolkata 700 013 – India
Phone: (033) 2249-1828, (033) 2265-3234
E-mail: suci_cc@vsnl.net
Website: www.suci.in

New Delhi:
Pratap Samal
3A/38, WEA, Karolbagh
New Delhi – 110005 India
Phone: (011) 2576631

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