Press Release

Pannalal Surana, President, SPI

Summary of Resolutions Passed at the Conference:
i) The Party urges the citizens to become fearless and not to be lured by petty allurement. It exhorts the people to mobilise to persuade the election commission to use paper ballot instead of EVM. It also demands electoral reforms like mentioning name of the purchaser on electoral bond, adopting system of proportional representation wherein seats are allocated to parties in the Vidhan Sabha and Lok Sabha in proportion to the votes polled by them, and making the Right to Information Act applicable to registered parties.
ii) The Party appeals to the country to give up the Western model of development which is not able to provide jobs to vast number of youths, widens inequality and accelerates global warming, and in place of that, evolve an alternative model aiming at full employment, by investing more in agriculture, forest development and small industries which can be run by renewable energy and located in a decentralized manner.
iii) The following changes be made in the draft National Education Policy:
Values like justice, liberty, equality and brotherhood be mentioned as guiding principles of education policy;
The State provide quality, common and free primary and secondary education; no privatisation.
Only public universities should be given approval to operate.
iv) Increase the allocation for health, and improve conditions of Primary Health Centers.
v) Adequate security be provided to women at public places and educational institutions. Recommendations of Mahila Ayog be implemented faithfully.
Following office bearers were elected for next two years. President: Pannalal Surana. Vice Presidents: Sandip Pandey, Balwant Singh Kheda and Rajshekharan Nair. General Secretaries: Shyam Gambhir, Tarakershwar Singh, Marminder Singh Mansahia, Manju Mohan and Goutam Kumar. Treasurer: Jayanti bhai Panchal.