The ‘good days ahead’ promise (Achche Din) the Bharatiya Janata Party made prior to the 2014 Parliamentary election seemed to have arrived only for Corporate companies and not the common man, Communist Party of India General Secretary S. Sudhakar Reddy said in Coimbatore on Wednesday.
He was here to inaugurate the party’s 23 state conference.
The BJP promised to bring back black money; it did not. It followed the very same policies the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government followed, perhaps with much more vigour. The BJP government was trying to push through a new land acquisition bill, sell shares of public sector banks and other undertakings and amend labour laws to favour corporate companies.
Bharatiya Janata Pary’s affiliates in the Sangh Parivar made disturbing noises like asking for statues for Nathuram Godse, speaking of ‘Ghar Vapsi’ programmes and attacking Mahatma Gandhi. In this situation, the CPI, without being deterred by electoral set backs, would mobilise people to fight the “anti-people” policies of the government, Mr. Reddy said.
National Secretary D. Raja said that the CPI would work for Left unity to take on the BJP government, which was keen on bring in policies that favoured the corporate companies. The protest against the land acquisition bill in New Delhi was one such.
On the Sri Lankan issue, he said that the Central Government should formulate a new policy that would help the Tamils there get justice.
