Addressing a rally in Belonia of South Tripura on the occasion of tenth divisional conference of CPI(M) women wing yesterday, Mr Sarkar said the Congress ruled the country most of the time after the Independence but it 'failed' to fulfill country's minimum expectation.
About 77 per cent people of India could not spend Rs 20 per day, it was still in the front row of illiterate countries of the world, about 16 crore youths were unemployed and more than 40 per cent of the children aged below four years was suffering from malnutrition, he added.
''Before the last general elections, Congress president Sonia Gandhi, general secretary Rahul Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had asserted to establish a new nation and assured a people-friendly government, but even after two budgets they could not able to arrest soaring prices of essential commodities,'' Mr Sarkar said.
The Lefts were demanding distribution of 14 essential food items through rationing to prevent black marketing, while the Centre was opposing it and "formulating policies for selected industrialists, investors and businessmen," he added.