CPI-M’s mega rally in Tripura: Yechury calls for strengthening resistance against BJP
Oct 21, 2022With barely four months left for the ensuing 2023 assembly elections in Tripura, the CPI-M All India General Secretary Sitaram Yechury Friday kicked off the party’s poll campaign and called for strengthening the united resistance against the BJP so as to oust the party from the state of Tripura in the ensuing elections. Addressing the mass gathering here at Agartala Vivekananda Ground, Yechury said, “The democracy which is at stake in the country under the rule of the BJP government needs to be saved.”
“The country is currently reeling under fascist misrule, where the people including the farmers, working class and poor are being deprived from their basic rights,” he alleged, adding that just like the rakshasas or evil powers stole the ‘amrit’ or elixir of life after the ‘samudra manthan’, in today’s world, the ‘amrit’ or authority has been stolen by the BJP. Invoking mythological references to target the BJP, Yechury said, “Just like the devtas had to bring back the amrit from the rakshasas, today’s Amrit, which has reached the wrong people, has to be brought back.”
Meanwhile, the former chief minister of the then Left front government and also the leader of opposition Manik Sarkar took a jibe at the BJP government in Tripura and said that the BJP had destroyed the state and taken it to the edge of the crematorium. During the last four and half months of its rule in Tripura, the RSS controlled-BJP government on one end failed to meet their promises in the vision document and on the other end brought crisis to the people of this state,” Sarkar said. Manik Sarkar accused the BJP of rising unemployment rate and said, “Today lakhs of youths would have been employed in Tripura, if the BJP had executed their pre-poll promises made in the 2018 assembly election last.”
“The present government is reluctant to ponder on the rising unemployment scenario across the state, where the youths are being cheated,” Sarkar said and urged the youths not to step on the temptation created by the ruling BJP in the state. He however appealed to all secular forces to unite and strengthen resistance against the BJP in Tripura and save democracy which is at stake presently.
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