The country is in a very dangerous situation that it has never seen in the last 71 years of Independence, former Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said in Tirupur on Sunday.
“The Rupee had depreciated like never before; the prices of petrol and diesel had shot up and prices of essential commodities had shot up, putting the country in a very dangerous position,” he told the gathering at a public meeting the Communist Party of India-Marxist had organised.
Affected by the Centre’s economic policies, workers, farmers and farm labourers would soon stage a massive protest, Mr. Sarkar said and alleged that to break the protest the BJP and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh were trying to divide the people.
“The BJP government is trampling upon the avowed secular principles of the country and the government is working to be the younger brother of the U.S. in social, economic and foreign policies.”
The former Tripura CM appealed to the party cadre to work hard to install a secular government in the Centre after the 2019 Parliamentary polls, increase the number of Left MPs in Parliament, and unite the anti-BJP, secular votes.
He also said that Tamil Nadu could only be protected by defeating the BJP and its ally the ruling All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.
