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Left meets PM, demands excess food be
distributed
Saturday August 04, 2012 06:26:09 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: A delegation
of Left party leaders Saturday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
to demand universal distribution of excess food stock to check
rising prices of essential commodities.
Communist Party of India-Marxist leader Prakash Karat, Communist
Party of India's S. Sudhakar Reddy, Forward Bloc's Debabrata
Biswas and Revolutionary Socialist Party's (RSP) Abani Roy met
Manmohan Singh at his residence.
The meeting comes after a five-day protest held by four parties
demanding food security for all.
The leaders also called for removal of the distinction between
above poverty line (APL) and below poverty line (BPL) categories
so that all are entitled to rations under the public distribution
system.
"Around five crore tonnes of surplus stocks are available in
government godowns (warehouses). These should be distributed
universally," said Karat.
Karat said the country is facing one of its worst droughts and the
government should stop exports and distribute the excess stock to
the affected in the drought-hit states at lower prices.
The Left parties also demanded tabling of the food bill in the
monsoon session of parliament starting Aug 8.
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