Kozhikode : The country is being ruled by a consortium of Hindu corporates, said CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury. Jio Hind rather than Jai Hind is the new mantra, Yechury said.
The Central govt is busily engaged in creating a Hindu State. It does this by compromising democratic rights and weakening constitutional establishments. Only the Left forces can fetter this government’s haste to usher in Hindutva –Corporatism and Right Wing populism, Yechury said.
Prior to independence, RSS had announced its aim to make India a Hindu State. Then, It was Communist party that opposed demarcating the Hindus from Muslims.
Politics has no room for religion in a secular state, Yechury said. Secularism is defined in clear terms and communist parties have consistently worked towards strengthening it, he said.
Post independence communist parties lay emphasis on civic liberties and its secular approach in terms of language-based states, land reforms etc. Communist party contributed greatly towards laying framework of modern India, by unifying the country’s diversities. It formulated a conceptual struggle by opposing communalism in totality. It is this Left oriented struggle that RSS fears and make them target communists, who they see as their major enemy.
RSS aims to destroy diversities of this land. On country, one leader, one culture, one law is part of such attitude. The governance is also being transformed to bear a single community fabric. Civic rights, governmental agencies and judiciary are being taken into its fold.
Democracy in Kashmir has been frozen for over six days now. Parliament remains a mute spectator as dark laws continue to be flouted. Elsewhere, Muslims are being marginalised in the name of citizenship.
Today, anyone can be declared a terrorist or urban naxalite and placed under arrest. The onus of proving otherwise lies on the accused, as per changed laws. An individual is now robbed of not just the democratic rights, but also his personal freedoms.
UAPA allows the Centre to supersede powers of the State, Yechury stated.
The country faces critical slowdown. Business entities are shutting down one by one. Farmer suicides and unemployment continue to rise. Despite the backdrop, the BJP govt moved on to bestow Rs 25 lakh crore to the superrich in tax relaxation.
The commoner’s purchasing capacity improves only with infrastructural growth. And this revives economy. However centre’s policy is in the reverse. It is these adverse state of affairs that CPI(M) and Left parties prepare to oppose vehemently, said Yechury.
Yechury was speaking at the Tagore hall, marking the 6th anniversary of Communist Party there. District secretary P Mohanan was also present at the function.
