The CPM is going to walk on the beaten track. Not ready to face the next assembly elections alone, the CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury prescribed the same old strategy of oft touted broad-based and united platform of left, secular and democratic forces to fight it out against the BJP in next assembly elections.
While addressing the party workers at Agartala Town Hall on the first day of the party’s two-day 23rd state conference Yechury dropped hints that CPM was mulling with the idea of forging poll alliance with Congress in the state—the ‘secular and democratic force’ available in the state for them. Such CPM experiments – and unstable alliances- earlier also time and again came a cropper ultimately reducing the Marxists’ political influence to a great extent. Now CPM has lost Tripura and West Bengal and Kerala remains the only state with a Marxist government. This time also the desperation is visible and it reminds one of the CPM experiment in West Bengal where it brazenly went to ally with a Islamic fundamentalist organization Furfura Sharif and attached huge importance to it.
“Efforts should be made to build up and strengthen public movements against the ‘fascist’ BJP-led Government which was determined in implementing the RSS agenda in the country,” he said.
Yechury continued and said, “The BJP-led Government had accelerated corporatization since it took the reins for the second time in 2019 and was handing over the properties of the public sector undertakings to the private sector.”
“While the rights of working-class were being affected, the BJP government had ‘legalized political corruption. The government at the same time brought forth issues like abrogation of Article 370, Citizenship Amendment Act and other draconian provisions as part of its communal agenda,” adding to this Yechury said, “Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government had turned as junior partner to the United States and is mortgaging the interests of the country.”
He lamented that the BJP government set its eyes on destroying the basic tenets of the Constitution like secularism and democracy as they were hindering its agenda of establishing a Hindu Rashtra.
He said, “In the process, the government is trying to control constitutional institutions like Parliament, Court, CBI and enforcement department.”
Yechury slammed the Modi government on the economic crisis which started when the BJP formed government at the center.
The CPM state committee is expected to retain Jiten Choudhury as its secretary .
