CPI for alliance to defeat BJP, TRS

The Communist Party of India has resolved to work for forging a broad-based understanding between the like-minded left and democratic parties to take on Prime Minister Narendra Modi led BJP Government at the Centre and Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao led TRS government in the State.

The party lamented that the “communal” and “corporate friendly” BJP-led government had been doling out benefits to the corporate sector ignoring the common man who was suffering on various counts. The Central government failed in fulfilling its promise of generating five crore jobs a year in the last four years and experts were apprehending that unemployment would significantly rise in the coming years pushing the country into a crisis.

CPI general secretary Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy criticised the BJP government for its failure in checking the attacks on minorities in the name of cow vigilantism and charged the government with playing “communal politics” that had become a threat to the democratic and secular fabric of the country. Mr. Sudhakar Reddy was addressing a public meeting here on Sunday marking the commencement of the party’s Telangana State Council’s second conference.

Opposition unity

The public meeting was preceded by an impressive march by the CPI’s red shirt volunteers. “The recent bypolls in Uttar Pradesh and other places where the opposition had forged unity could ensure defeat of the BJP in the constituencies it held for long,” he said. On the State issues, he criticised Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao for going back on his promises of making a Dalit the Chief Minister of Telangana as also his assurance on distributing three-acre land to eligible Dalit families. The pace at which the two bedroom houses for poor families was progressing indicated that the government would not be able to fulfil its assurance in 300 years.

CPI central secretariat member K. Narayana criticised the government for unleashing repression on leaders who raised voice against the government’s failures. While opposition parties were being harassed on one pretext or the other, leaders of organisations like the Telangana JAC were being kept under illegal detention whenever they raised their voice against the government.

‘Cover up’

The Chief Minister was resorting to “politics of bankruptcy” to cover up his failures as was evident from the claims on forming an alternative at the national level. The Chief Minister went to Kolkata and held discussions with TMC leader Mamata Banerjee on the alternative. “Ms. Mamata has announced her feelings against Mr. Rao’s ideas even before he landed in Hyderabad,” he said.

CPI State secretary Chada Venkat Reddy presided over the meeting. CPI national secretariat member Atul Kumar Anjaan and other leaders also spoke.