Need to Step up Attack on Modi Govt’s Hate Agenda with Alternative Politics: Yechury

Kolkata: There is need for alternative politics to counter-attack the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) politics of hatred and violence to usher in a theocratic and fascist State, CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury said here on Sunday.

 “Prime Minister (Narendra) Modi is trying to make the Ram Mandir and the Central Vista project as emblematic of a new State order which is far is removed from the secular welfare characteristics of the State, as envisaged India’s Constitution,” Yechury said while addressing the anniversary programme of Ganashakti  daily, the mouthpiece of Communist party of India (Marxist) in West Bengal .

“A theocratic, fascist State order is being ushered in and “this fiefdom” of PM Modi, which he is trying to build by spreading hatred and violence, should be counter-attacked based on the strength of alternative politics,” he added.

Yechury said while West Bengal was inching toward the next Assembly elections, an attempt was being made to make the elections bipolar (BJP versus Trinamool Congress) by the corporate media while many of their policies were similar. 

On minimum support price for farmers or on issues of communalism, both of them share similar policies, and in West Bengal, to defeat BJP, TMC should also be defeated, he said. 

Yechury’s  comments come days after Congress announced an electoral alliance with Left parties in West Bengal.

Farm Laws an Avenue for Loot

On the farmer protests, the CPI(M) leader said that right now in India needs to enhance the purchasing power parity of the people by infusing capital in the hands of common people, while in reality the opposite is happening and attempts are being made to collect capital through loot. The recent farm laws are also offering ways of accumulation of money in the hands of corporates through looting, he added.

“Now they are envisaging agriculture as a place for loot, otherwise why would lakhs and lakhs of farmers bear the intolerable Delhi winter climate at 1.1 degree?” he said.

He said small and medium farmers are at the receiving end of the farm laws, but even big farmers are aghast as they will now be at the mercy of the big corporates.

Yechury said the current situation called for bolstering the worker-peasant alliance.

All India Kisan Sabha genral secretary Hannan Mollah, who was the guest speaker,  highlighted that tomorrow (January 4) the seventh meeting (between protesters and the government )will be held, which may also end  up as a “worthless” exercise as it is obvious that the Centre’s strategy is to wear out the fighting spirit of farmers who have closed the Delhi Borders from five sides for over a month now.

To  intensify the farmers’ agitation, Mollah said at the district level, a gherao programme of the District Magistrate and Governor will held from January 23-25, and on January 26, if the government does not yield to the farmers’ demands, parades will be held in New Delhi and all major cities in the country.

The AIKS said the government had betrayed the farmers who are doing yeomen service to the nation even during the pandemic times with the agriculture sector being the only sector which is on a rise while other sectors are faltering.