Terming the upcoming Lok Sabha election the most critical election in the history of the country, Communist Party of India (CPI) general secretary D. Raja has said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has to be removed to protect the Constitution and to retain its character as a secular and democratic republic.
He was addressing a convention at Peroorkada here on Monday for Pannian Raveendran, the Left Democratic Front’s candidate for Thiruvananthapuram.
“Today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in Kerala that we have been witnessing just a trailer for the past ten years of their rule and the full movie is on the way. Attempts are being made to turn this secular, democratic republic into a theocratic nation. Ambedkar had said that it will be a calamity if the country turns into a theocratic nation. For the last ten years, we have been going through such a calamity. We made supreme sacrifices to gain freedom from colonialism. Now we have to liberate India from the BJP-RSS raj. If they continue, there will be no democracy,” said Mr. Raja.
