Pointing to the huge gap between the income of the toiling masses and that of the top business houses in the country, K. Uma, State secretary of Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist), (SUCI-C), said that only the capitalist class and not the people of the country got Independence in 1947.
“On the one hand, businessmen like Gautam Adani and Mukesh Ambani earn hundreds of crores of rupees daily. Their wealth is growing phenomenally to put them on the list of the world’s richest individuals. On the other, large sections of the toiling masses are still struggling to arrange for their basic needs. In a real sense, what happened in 1947 was not Independence for people but the transfer of power from British imperialists to the local capitalist class. Capitalists got [India] Independence [only] to exploit and oppress the working people,” Ms. Uma said.
She was addressing a public meeting organised as part of SUCI(C)’s founder Shibdas Ghosh’s birth centenary celebrations, at Kannada Bhavan in Kalaburagi on Monday.
