Sitaram Yachury
CPI (M) General Secretary Sitaram Yachury addressing a press conference in Agartala. Photo credit: UB

The Left parties will hold a โ€˜dharnaโ€™ outside Parliament in Delhi on July 24 to protest against the โ€œmurder of democracy in West Bengal and Tripuraโ€, CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury said here on Sunday.

โ€œDemocracy and the peopleโ€™s 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: โ€œAfter 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.

โ€œOn the pretext of child-abductions, four people were lynched. The BJP governmentโ€˜s own Minister is involved in spreading rumours that caused much hysteria across Tripura. Stateโ€™s 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 governmentโ€™s recent announcement of Minimum Support Price for certain crops as โ€œfraudulent actionsโ€, the CPI-M leader said the government should follow the Swaminathan Commissionโ€™s recommendations on MSP.

He said that to oppose the BJP governmentโ€™s anti-people policies, workers and farmers will organise โ€œjail bharoโ€ (fill prisons) and protest rallies on August 9 and September 5 across the country.

โ€œThe BJP is trying to get political mileage and electoral victory through communal polarisation in the country.

โ€œThey are trying to keep the situation in Jammu and Kashmir volatile for political gain. It was expected that during the Governorโ€™s 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 โ€œappropriate electoral tacticsโ€ in the light of the political situation and elections in different states.

โ€œOur main slogan is to โ€˜save the country, defeat BJPโ€™. But in West Bengal it will be โ€˜save Bengal, defeat Trinamool Congressโ€™ and in Tamil Nadu it will be to โ€˜save Tamil Nadu, defeat AIADMKโ€™,โ€ Yechury said.

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