The manifesto also included the role played by CPI (M) in United Progressive alliance (UPA) in promoting interests of farmers and workers. CPI (M) asked to vote for the party in the name of maintaining secular values, enhancing state intervention in the light of global economic crisis, raising annual Plan expenditure from 5% of GDP to 10%, relief package for affected sectors like textiles and garments, gems and jewellery, leather, handicrafts, coir, cashew, marine products, software and IT etc., aimed mainly at the small and medium enterprises, moratorium on job cuts for workers, regulation of financial sector, revival of agriculture, strengthening of public distribution system, checking price rise, implementation of land reforms, industrial development, protecting Indian interests by keeping sectors like health, education, water resources, banking and financial services out of The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), and pressing for Review of the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), and strengthening federalism. A few other important declarations related to livelihood and social security. They included rise in the minimum wages, discouraging contractualisation and casualisation of work, improving the legislation on unorganized sector workers and right to strike: “Safeguarding the right to organize, collective bargaining and the right to strike for all workers, including government employees; enacting legislation to annul the Supreme Court judgment prohibiting strikes; ratifying the ILO Convention 151, which accords government employees the rights, which other citizens enjoy, subject to their administrative responsibilities.”