Left parties and their mass organisations would hold demonstrations across the country on Wednesday to protest the government’s action against Anna Hazare and his supporters.
In separate statements, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India directed their units across the country to organise protest actions on Wednesday.
“The Manmohan Singh government has attacked the democratic right to conduct peaceful protest with the ban on the hunger strike and the arrest of Anna Hazare and his supporters in Delhi”, the CPI(M) Polit Bureau said in a statement.
Its affiliate, the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), said, “No one can question the people’s right to protest,” and termed the police action against Hazare and his supporters as “totally undemocratic and an attack on the citizens’ right to have a peaceful protest”.
The CPI Central Secretariat, while terming Mr. Hazare’s detention as “illegal and undemocratic”, said the attacks on him by the Congress party “shows the panic and bankruptcy of Congress politics”.
Demanding his immediate release, the party asked all its units to hold protest actions on Wednesday against the “undemocratic actions” of the government.