From Our Bureau
NEW DELHI: CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechuri has rejected tweets by some party leaders objecting to the “Bharat Jodo Yatra” of the Congress in the left-ruled Kerala for 18 days and just two days in the BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh, asserting that it an internal affair of the Congress to decide the schedule of its Yatra.
He asserted after a 2-day meeting of the party’s polit bureau not to give any significance to the left parties not joining the Congress Yatra since each party conducts own programmes and what was needed today is the united efforts of secular democratic parties to prevent the Hindutva agena of the ruling BJP.
Yechuri affirmed that all parties have to unite at the national level while focusing on the local level differently. “It is the time for the united effort by all secular and democratic parties to prevent the communalism and rise of the Hindu agenda by ruling BJP.” The CPI(M) leaders explained that their cadres fight against the Trinamul Congress government in West Bengal but their party sees no problem in joining hands with the Trinamul Congress at the national level to fight the BJP.
Yechury said the polit bureau of the party decided that the CPI(M) shall join the efforts to bring together secular democratic parties in defence of the Indian Constitution, democracy, democratic rights and civil liberties to safeguard the secular and democratic character of the Indian republic.
He also announce a nationwide campaign by the party on its own from September 14 to 24 against the burdens being imposed on the people’s livelihood that will culminate in the state-level rallies and public meetings.
