Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram Yechury has said that the resignation of B.S. Yeddyurappa as Chief Minister of Karnataka on Saturday is a victory of the people of India over the machinations of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Inaugurating the E.K. Nayanar Academy here on Saturday, Mr. Yechury said the developments in Karnataka had shown that democracy in the country could not be defeated.
Priority
They reinforced the CPI(M)’s commitment to be in the forefront of resistance wherever the fundamental content of the democratic republic was attacked, he added.
“Ousting the BJP is the priority today,” Mr. Yechury said stressing that every institution in the country is under attack.
The BJP was mounting an offence of unreason against reason. The country was now in the midst of an intense attack on democratic institutions and was witnessing the Sangh Parivar’s attempt to sharpen polarisation. The BJP had perfected a new art in the performance of democracy, he said noting that the effort was to create a society bereft of secular democratic values.
Alternative policies
“We are facing a formidable threat which has to be defeated by mighty people’s movements,” Mr. Yechury said.
The CPI(M) was the only party with an ideological platform that could offer alternative policy directions and hence the party had become a major target of the Sangh Parivar.
The Sangh Parivar leadership had already announced that their next goal was a victory in Kerala.
Economic policies
The Narendra Modi government’s economic policies were looting people, making the rich richer, while pushing the farmers to suicide, he added.
CPI(M) State secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan presided. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, Ministers K.K. Shylaja and Kadannappally Ramachandran, P.K. Sreemathy, P. Karunakaran, K.K. Ragesh, MPs, E.P. Jayarajan, A.N. Shamsheer, MLAs, were among those present. The Chief Minister inaugurated the museum building inside the academy complex.
