The Communist Party of India National Council member, Siddanagouda Patil, has alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Sangh Parivar and its organisations are “dependent on Pakistan” for their survival, whether to be in power or to come to power.
Addressing a press conference here on Thursday, Mr. Patil condemned the attack on the functionaries of All India Students’ Federation and All India Youth Federation by ABVP workers. He said BJP and Sangh Parivar will have no existence if there is no Pakistan.
He alleged that there has been a conspiracy by BJP, RSS and its organisations to brand the premier public educational institutions and universities as “anti-national” and thereby dismantle these institutions. In all the incidents including those related to Jawaharlal Nehru University, and the University of Hyderabad in which research scholar Rohit Vemula allegedly committed suicide, the accused have been ABVP workers.
It appears there is an undeclared emergency in the country as anybody can be arrested in the name of ‘Pakistan’ and ‘anti-national’ if they speak against Prime Minister Modi and his government, he felt.
Mr. Patil said that on Ambedkar Jayanti they are going to distribute one lakh pamphlets in the district, telling the truth about the JNU incident in which Students’ Union president Kanhaiya Kumar was arrested and also about Rohit Vemula’s death.
He felt that the Modi government has failed to keep up the promises made to the people before coming to power. Hence, to divert the attention of the people from its failures, it is branding those who speak against Mr. Modi and his government as ‘anti-national.’
CPI leaders Saathi Sundaresh, Kambegowda, Girish, Vasudev, and Gowda Rangappa were present.
