IMPOSITION OF ECONOMIC BURDENS THE Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) met in New Delhi on April 18-19, 2017. It has issued the following statement on April 20, 2017 The Central Committee noted that the BJP government is embarking on an aggressive pursuit of neo-liberal economic policies and is now planning large-scale privatisation of the public sector. This will further exacerbate the unemployment situation. Already the government has admitted in parliament a loss of nearly 1.5 crore jobs in the recent period. The agrarian distress continues to impose miseries. The failure on the monsoon has severely impacted on the southern states with Tamil Nadu reporting drought conditions and over 200 suicides by farmers. The agrarian distress continues to impose miseries in vast tracts of rural areas. The BJP government has reneged on its promise of increasing the MSP to levels of one and half times the cost of production. Unless this is done mere waiver of loans, though it may provide temporary relief, cannot be a solution in the long run to resolve the crisis engulfing our agricultural sector. The failure of the monsoon in southern India has led to immense agrarian distress. Hundreds of farmers have committed distress suicides in Tamil Nadu. The central and the state government have so far not come forward to provide any relief despite widespread agitations that have reached the portals of parliament in Delhi.