A major task before the Communist Party of India (Marxist) during elections will be to ensure that the main poll narrative shifts from a communally polarising one to the real issues of livelihood and social issues concerning the people, CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury has said.
“While the Left has been playing a pivotal role in mobilising mass struggles, when it comes to elections, the mainstream narrative is being continuously hijacked by the BJP-RSS combine into a communally polarising narrative. The Prime Minister then rakes up ‘azan’, ‘hijab’ or ‘halal’… We need to shift the narrative to the real issues such as rising prices of fuel, unemployment, farmers’ suicide and the like,” Mr. Yechury told the media here a day after he was re-elected general secretary at the CPI(M) party congress.
The party, he said, would now hold a meeting of its secretaries in the north Indian States to discuss a plan to take on the Hindutva forces straight on.
