Mangalore : Various organizations such as BMS, NITUC, AITUC, HMS and CITU staged a protest and jail bhari in front of Head post office on November 8, Tuesday.

Addressing the protestors, B Madhava, district secretary of CPI(M) said that the state government has created many problem like unemployment, price hike to harass the working class.

He also said that the government is showing its negligence and increasing the price of essential commodities. After the present central government came into power the petrol price has been increased for 17 times.

Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia filed the affidavit to the Supreme Court stating that the a common man has to spend Rs 35 a day and the people who spend it are not poor but rich. But they must know that it is the necessity in the present day.

Today the people don’t sell the commodities at different price for rich and poor. Hence the government must increase the wage to the working class people to Rs 10,000. Government is not interested to work for the welfare of poor people, he said.

He said that government is increasing the contract system in the state but not increasing the wage properly. Hence it must not continue the contract system, he said.

Vishwanath Shetty of BMS said that people may have any pay scale but they only get Rs 1500 pension. CITU is a poor people’s party and not a political party, he said.

Comrade B Shekhar of AITUC said that if the central government show this kind of negligence to people’s problem then they will not come to power in next election, he said.

AITUC secretary Suresh, Vasanth Achary of CPIM and others were present. Later the protestors were taken in private city bus and police van as a part of jail bharo programme.