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.