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CPB observing countrywide 'Demand Week' The Communist Party Of Bangladesh (CPB) is observing countrywide ‘Demand Week’ form October 9 to 15 to underscore some immediate and urgent demands which include reducing the price of essentials, introducing mass rationing system across the country for the poor, strengthening the activities of the TCB and stopping extortion cancellation of lease of gas blocks on terms which go against the interest of the people of the country, starting the trail of war criminals, fulfilling the demand of farmers, peasants, agricultural workers and professionals reintroduce the fundamental basis of the constitution of 1972. CPB has called upon the people to built up strong mass movement to achieve those urgent and immediate demands, and make the programs of Demands Week successful all over the county. The Party has pointed out that the problem in the day-to-day life of the people including price spiral, rise in crime and lawlessness, corruption and illegal activities by the ruling party, traffic jams, electricity failures etc. have increased during the last 9 months. The hope created when the present government assumed power has not only eroded, people are becoming frustrated and discontent is rising. The government is not working in accordance with national and people’s needs and interest regarding gas extraction, maritime boundary, Tipaimukh dam, coal extraction, TIFA, the imperialist plans and policies of US imperialism in our region. an `unjust’ economic and social system is being continued. Imperialism, Plundering capitalism and communalism continue to reign over the nation and people almost as during the previous BNP-Jamat, Caretaker Government and other regimes. These three forces are presently the main enemies of the nation. The bourgeois political parties have proved their bankruptcy and they are unwilling and incapable of bring the country from the clutches of these three main enemies. Only a left-democratic alternative force will be able to build this essential task. The building-up of such as alternative is the call of the day. CPB has appealed to the masses to create a new `arousal’. Though mass struggles in order to fulfill this mission of building a left-democratic alternative. Build up Left-Democratic Alternative for Fundamental Solution of Crisis of National and Peoples Lives. Immediate and Urgent 9-point demands 1. Reduce price of essentials and destroy corrupt ‘market-syndicates’. Introduce efficient and corruption free Public distribution system all over the country including permanent Ration Shop for the urban and rural poor, fair-price shop in all localities, consumer-cooperative activities and COSCOR outlets, strengthening of Treading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) and Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (BADC), building up of adequate buffer stock of essential commodities by the state. etc. 2. Take strong repressive measures against extortionists, illegal grabbing of land-house-institution-committees, mainpulation and criminalization of public tender process, bribery, trade in admission, lobbing-commerce etc. 3. Float new tender for extraction of natural gas the basis of new production sharing contract (PSC) model that fully safeguard national interest including the condition of 100% sale and utilization of the extracted gas nationally. Cancel the decision to sign contract regarding 3 off shore block with IOCs on the basis of anti-national model PSC-2008 which will allow 80% of the gas to be exported by the IOCs. 4. Implement and fulfill the urgent and immediate demands of workers, peasant, agricultural workers, employees, professional and other sectors of poor, low income and middle-income people. 5. Urgently ensure fair trial and punishment of all murders and bomb-grenade, attacks including Bangabandhu Mujib murder, bomb-murder on Paltan rally of CPB, murder of CPB leaders Ratan sen-manik Saha-Abdullah-Shttaban Hajang etc. 6. Adequately empower Upajilla parishads, Union parishads, city corporations, municipalities and other elected local self-govern institutions to ensure their full authority within their area and jurisdiction including their economic capability and authority, stop tendency of usurping all of local authority by respective member of parliament (MP) and ensure democratic decentralization of state and administration. 7. Bring about fundamental reform of the Electoral system including the introduction of proportional representation system and effectively stopping the influence of money-power, muscle-power, administrative manipulations etc. 8. Immediately begin the trial of criminals of 1971 Liberation war. Crush communalism. 9. Re-establish the fundamental basis of the 1972-Constitution including the four state principles, democracy, Secularism, Nationalism and Socialism.
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