The Left parties will hold a โdharnaโ outside Parliament in Delhi on July 24 to protest against the โmurder of democracy in West Bengal and Tripuraโ, CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury said here on Sunday.
โDemocracy and the peopleโs rights have been totally destroyed in West Bengal and Tripura. Total lawlessness prevails in these states. To draw national attention to the issue, all Left parties will hold a sit-in outside Parliament on July 24,โ Yechury told the media.
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He said: โAfter the BJP led alliance government came to power in Tripura in March, four CPI-M members and leaders have been murdered.โ
Besides, hundreds of Left party offices were bulldozed, thousands of houses belonging to Left supporters and leaders were attacked or burnt down, and hundreds of leftists attacked by ruling party cadres.
โOn the pretext of child-abductions, four people were lynched. The BJP governmentโs own Minister is involved in spreading rumours that caused much hysteria across Tripura. Stateโs law and order under BJP has gone down. The state of affairs in Tripura and West Bengal is worse than the 1975 Emergency,โ he said after attending a meeting of the Tripura state committee of the CPI-M.
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Yechury also said hatred and violence allegedly patronised by the RSS and the BJP continued unabated across the country.
Terming the governmentโs recent announcement of Minimum Support Price for certain crops as โfraudulent actionsโ, the CPI-M leader said the government should follow the Swaminathan Commissionโs recommendations on MSP.
He said that to oppose the BJP governmentโs anti-people policies, workers and farmers will organise โjail bharoโ (fill prisons) and protest rallies on August 9 and September 5 across the country.
โThe BJP is trying to get political mileage and electoral victory through communal polarisation in the country.
โThey are trying to keep the situation in Jammu and Kashmir volatile for political gain. It was expected that during the Governorโs Rule, the situation will improve but it has remained as earlier. Three people, including a young girl, were killed just two days back,โ the CPI-M leader said.
To a question, the former parliamentarian said his party has decided on the โappropriate electoral tacticsโ in the light of the political situation and elections in different states.
โOur main slogan is to โsave the country, defeat BJPโ. But in West Bengal it will be โsave Bengal, defeat Trinamool Congressโ and in Tamil Nadu it will be to โsave Tamil Nadu, defeat AIADMKโ,โ Yechury said.