Wednesday, February 1 2006 15:01 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: Describing the Government decision to privatise Delhi and Mumbai airports as 'shameless surrender' to private parties, Communist Party of India (CPI)Marxist (M) today(Feb 1,2006) threatened to intensify its agitation against the move and also take up the matter in Parliament.

"Government has taken a very wrong decision. They have put all ethics of transparency and justice aside and taken this decision. It is not only a matter of privatisation, it is a matter of ignoring 22,000-strong AAI organisation," party Polit Buro member Brinda Karat said after addressing agitating workers at the airport here.

She demanded the immediate withdrawal of the decision and threatened to intensify the agitation if the Government did not oblige. She also appealed to all political parties to come forward to support the cause.

Claiming that the process of privatisation was started during the previous BJP-ld NDA regime, she said the present dispensation was continuing with the "bulldozer" of privatisation in every sphere.