CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury said when the people of the country were raising issues over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s guarantee of implementing various schemes, Mr. Modi was raising the issue of people eating non-vegetarian food during festival season.
Addressing a public meeting held in support of party candidate for Madurai Lok Sabha constituency Su. Venkatesan here on Saturday, Mr. Yechury said 79% of Indians ate non-vegetarian food. Was it an issue for the PM? What was the meaning of this? Polarising the people. Vegetarian and non-vegetarian; Hindus vs non-Hindus. That was all he was doing.
India was facing a serious challenge to its foundational pillars — secular democracy, economic sovereignty, federalism and social justice. Secular democratic India was facing an existential threat. In the States ruled by the BJP, new laws had been enacted with the objective of sharpening of communal polarisation in the name of love jihad, cow protection, etc..
