The Communist Party of India (Marxist) would strive to bring about ‘concrete amendments' to the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, 2010, when it is brought before the Parliament on Wednesday, Sitaram Yechury, CPI (M) Polit Bureau Member, said here on Sunday.
The changes made by the government had absolved the liability of the suppliers. “We cannot accept this and we will move concrete amendments, when it is brought before the Parliament,” Mr. Yechury said in a brief interaction with reporters on the sidelines of the opening of the party's district office here.
Earlier, inaugurating the office, he said there was no other path to human liberation and emancipation, than the one chalked out by the red flag. The party office was christened “Venmani Martyrs Memorial” in memory of the 44 Dalits who were burnt alive at Keezhvenmani, 35-km from here, on December 25, 1968, for seeking wage rise.
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“For Communists like us, when we inaugurate an office, we inaugurate a centre for revolution and not just an administrative unit.” Mr.Yechury observed that the memories of the ‘Venmani martyrs' would play an important role in the State, and become the fulcrum for ‘revolutionary movement' in the region.
Portraits of party stalwarts were unveiled on the occasion amid the pledge that the “torch of revolution lit by the martyrs of Venmani would never be snuffed out.”
G. Ramakrishnan, State President, CPI (M), K. Balakrishnan, State committee member, were among those present.
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