New Delhi, September 20: he Left and the Right were on the same page today with its leaders sharing stage to protest the UPA government’s decision to allow FDI in retail and hike in diesel price with both alleging that these were taken to “please” US President Barack Obama and other western nations.
While Left leaders A B Bardhan and Sitaram Yechury shared the stage with BJP’s Murli Manohar Joshi and Nitin Gadkari at a protest organised by traders, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu kept away from it but appeared at a Left protest rally and courted arrest along with others.
Mr Yadav attacked the government for its “anti-poor” policies and claimed farmers were the “worst-affected lot” due to hike in diesel price.
Yards away, Mr Bardhan, Mr Yechury, Mr Joshi, Mr Gadkari and JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav slammed the government’s economic policies calling them “anti-people and anti-national” while attacking Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for being hell-bent on “pleasing his friend” Obama.
Mr Bardhan said ideologies of the Left and the BJP might be different, but they “are one” when it came to fighting for the people and even complimented Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee for deciding to pull out her ministers from the Union Cabinet.
While Mr Bardhan said Dr Singh was trying to “please” Mr Obama, Mr Joshi was more vocal in his criticism when he alleged that the Congress was trying to make traders and people “slaves” of US and other western countries.
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