Terming the BJP a representative of fascist forces, Kariyappa Gudimani, State Secretary of Karnataka Janashakti, said that only a collective fight from all the progressive and democratic forces could save India.
Addressing a media conference in Ballari on Tuesday, he said that India is facing a counter-revolution under BJP rule undoing what was achieved in the last 800 years for creating an egalitarian society free from exploitation and oppression and based on equality.
“Right from the Vachana movement of the Sharanas in the 12 th Century to the historical self-respect movement of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar in the 20th Century, the toiling masses have been fighting the discrimination, inequality, exploitation and oppression to create an egalitarian society. The civil rights and the democratic space that we have today are the result of this sustained struggle. However, the BJP, a representative of India’s big capitalist and right-wing communal forces, is undoing what was achieved in the last 800 years and attempting to take the country in the reverse direction. Its rule is a fascist rule where dissent is ruthlessly suppressed by force,” Mr. Gudimani said stressing the need for getting united and waging a collective fight for defeating ‘fascist forces’.
