Ludhiana News/ CPI and CPI (M) demands Model Gram Railway Station be named after Shaheed Kartar Singh Sarabha

Ludhiana, November 17, 2013: On the occasion of martyrdom day of Shaheed Kartar Singh Sarabha, the Communist Party of India (CPI) and CPI (M) District Ludhiana demanded that the Model Gram Railway Station be names after him as Shaheed Kartar Singh Sarabha Model Gram Railway Station.

Various speakers addressing a public meeting on Saturday to pay homage to the martyrs of Ghadar Movement called upon the people to unite in strength to save much achieved gains of freedom, secularism, democracy after hard struggle and sacrifice by the people of India during the freedom struggle and for pro-people economic policies for sustainable development of the country by opposing the sell out of the nation by the government through the neo liberal economic policies.
Remembering the sacrifices by the Ghadaries the speakers said that large number of youth who had gone abroad tasted the air of freedom in those countries. This inspired them to come back to India to break the shackles of slavery from the British imperialism. They have dreamt of free India which had equal opportunities for all the citizens. But the policies pursued by the central and state government have led to misery of the people and given boost to the already rich and elite.  
Throwing light on the ideas of Kartar Singh Sarabha the speakers warned the people against forces of communalism and casteism, which are out to destroy the basic fabric of pluralism and unity in diversity of our country. There are attempts for saffornisation of education. The menace of terrorism by organisations of different shades is a real threat and needs to be dealt with united. The economic policies being pursued by the government have led to concentration of wealth in the hands of a few while vast majority is languishing in glaring poverty. This is evident from the suicides being committed by the farmers in all parts of the country. Education and health have gone out of reach of the common man. There is increasing commercialisation of education and health.  If these are not resisted, danger of imperialist intervention in the country’s affairs will further increase like it has through the agreements like the Indo US Nuke deal and we will become junior strategic partners of the US in its imperialist designs. The US is out to do business to save its interest but we have to save the interests of vast majority of our country.   It is time people unite in strength for the defense of secularism, democracy and for pro-people economic policies, if the country has to march forward on the path of sustainable development. The effort for an outright capitalist development model has added to the miseries of the people and increased corruption  to an alarming level and there is rise in crime for greed of a few. Sometimes the poor and deprived are forced to resort to crime either for want of money to full fill basic necessities or out of desperation as a result of apathy by the successive governments. Lashing out at the misrule in the state the speakers warned that this has led to misery of the people and brought the rank of Punjab much low in whole the country. There is rampant corruption, increase in crime; drug mafia sand mafia and land mafia have become very powerful under the patronage of a few at the helms of affairs in the state government.
Those who addressed the rally include district secretary of the CPI Kartar  Singh Bowani, Sukhvinder Singh Sekhon –State Committee member  CPI (M), District Secretary Amarjet Mattu, O P Mehta, Dr Arun Mitra, D P Maur, Sukhwinder Lotey, Ramesh Ratan, Gurnam Singh Sidhu, Ramadhar Singh, Manjeet Singh Gill, Jatinder Pal Singh, Raghbir Singh, Subegh Singh, Hanuman Parshad Dubey, Ram Brich, Com Jagdish Choudhary, Jagdish Chand, Devraj, Com Manjit Singh, Pawan Kumar, Samar Bahadur, Kewal Singh Benwait, Pardeep Singh, Kuldeep Singh Binder, Gulzar Singh, Samar Bahadur, Ramlal and Jagdish Singh. Surinder recited revolutionary poem.