Agartala, Aug 9 - The Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has forgotten its electoral promise and is working hard for 'khaas aadmi' (special people) instead of 'aam aadmi' (the common man), said senior Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Brinda Karat here.

'The Left parties would launch a nation-wide stir with a mass convention in New Delhi on Aug 26, demanding food for all and adequate food security for people living below the poverty line, ' the CPI-M politburo member said here Saturday evening.

Karat and Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, who too is CPI-M politburo member, with other senior party leaders addressed the nineteenth central conference of Tripura Rajya Upajati Ganamukti Parishad, the frontal tribal organisation of the CPI-M.

Brinda Karat said: 'The increase in the prices of essential commodities, particularly of food items, has become unbearable especially for the poor and the common people who can no longer afford the essential commodities, while the UPA government remained quiet and sincere towards the interest of the millionaires.'

Referring to the Maoist violence in Lalgarh in West Bengal, Karat said nobody would succeed in eliminating the CPI-M by violent means and the party flag would continue to fly high.

Karat said Tripura had topped the Indian states in handing over ownership rights of forest lands to tribal people.

'After the enactment of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (recognition of forest rights) Act, 2005, by the central government, 2.1 million tribal people across the country sought 'patta' (title deeds) of the forest land on which they had been residing for years,' she said.