Modi government’s authoritarian efforts not stopped despite lacking majority: CPIM party congress
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Hyderabad: The 24th party congress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) taking place in Madurai in Tamil Nadu urged ‘all Left, democratic and secular forces’ to work together to build up ‘a New India’ along ‘secular, democratic and progressive lines’.
CPI(M) coordinator Prakash Karat in the inaugural session took on the BJP-led government at the Centre saying that ‘Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government represent the Hindutva-corporate nexus that is closely allied to US imperialism’, The Indian Express reported.
Prakash Karat called for opposing what he said the BJP-RSS and the Hindutva-corporate nexus, adding that they are closely allied to the US imperialism with PM Modi claiming to be a friend of President Trump’s.
The former CPIM general secretary claimed that only the Left can fight ‘all manifestations of Hindutva and majoritarian communalism’, because the Left parties have ‘uncompromising stand on neo-liberal policies’.
The CPI(M) is holding the party conference in Madurai for the second time after the town hosted the ninth party congress in 1972.
Karat told the conference that having failed to win majority in the Lok Sabha polls has not stopped the Modi government’s authoritarian move to ‘re-shape the Indian State and Constitution’.
Calling the government’s plan to implement simultaneous polls in the country ‘a direct assault on federalism and states’, he said that steps to weaken the higher judiciary and undermine independence of Election Commission alongside curtailing the parliament are underway.
Accusing the government of using what he said ‘draconian laws like the UAPA and PMLA’ against opposition leaders, he pointed out that two chief ministers were jailed on ‘so-called corruption charges’ for the time in the independent India.
The leaders of other communist parties including The Communist Party of India(CPI), Communist Party of India( Marxist-Lenist) ( CPI-ML) Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) and All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) attended the inaugural session.