CPI(M) to launch agitation in Gujarat

May 13, 2013 17:57

Communist Party of India(Marxist) has decided to launch a week-long agitation from May 23 in Gujarat to highlight the problems of drinking water, commercialisation of education and health among others.

"In Gujarat, people in more than 10,000 villages and 43 cities are facing acute shortage of drinking water. We are launching a week-long agitation from May 23 during which scores of party workers will stage dharna, demonstrations and will court arrests en masse," CPM Gujarat secretary Arun Mehta told reporters here today.

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