Senior leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] S. Ramachandran Pillai on Wednesday said that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Centre is trying to establish an authoritarian regime and the most important political task is to isolate and defeat them in the country.
He was speaking after hoisting the party flag at the E.K.Nayanar Academy at Burnassery to mark the start of the 23rd party congress of the CPI(M) organised in Kannur for the first time.
Mr. Pillai said that in order to defeat the BJP, the organisational task was to strengthen the party nationally. The Party Congress was taking place at a critical juncture when the BJP at the Centre was destroying the great Indian culture, traditions and heritage in a bid to covert secular India to a Hindu Rashtra.
Mr. Pillai further said that the BJP was also implementing pro-corporate, anti-people, and neo-liberal economic policies which were ruining the life and livelihoods of common people.
“The BJP is attacking Constitutional institutions and denying the democratic rights of people. They are trying to establish an authoritarian regime,” he said.
But what provided relief was the fact that more and more people were coming forward to fight the BJP and its policies.
Highlighting the experience during the Kisan struggle, the working class struggle, the movement against CAA, and other struggles in the country, he said newer classes were coming forward to fight against the pro-corporate policies of the present government.
Several State governments and regional parties were opposing the BJP, which was attacking the country’s federal structure, he added.
The flag hoisting ceremony was attended by the party general secretary Sitaram Yechury, Chief Minister and Organisation Committee Chairman Pinaray Vijayan, polit bureau members, central members and delegates, who came to attend the party congress.
