03-13-2008, 08:50 AM
Attacks on CPI(M) offices are ominous for democracy: Yechury
New Delhi (PTI): The attacks on CPI(M) offices in different parts of the country are "ominous" signal for democracy as they reflected the "fascistic intolerance" of the RSS-BJP in their bid to gain political mileage, senior CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury said on wednesday.
He also charged the Sangh Parivar with "refusing" to join the talks to restore peace in the troubled Kannur district in Kerala convened by Kerala Home Minister K Balakrishnan on "specious grounds".
"The fact that the RSS is refusing to join these talks to restore peace in Kannur is a clear indication of their desperation to maintain their political presence through spread of such violence," Yechury told reporters here.
Releasing a list of 12 CPI(M) activists killed allegedly by the RSS-BJP workers and a large number of attacks in Kerala since the Left and Democratic Front came to power in June 2006, he said "their frustration is clearly reflected in such increased violence against the Left as even the attendance in RSS shakhas in Kerala is dwindling."
Maintaining that even some allies of the BJP had condemned the attacks, Yechury said the LDF government had been appealing to all sides to stop violence and "we hope good sense will prevail on the RSS-BJP."
Referring to the attacks on his party offices in Hyderabad, Bangalore, Pune and Dehradun, he said "they had vandalised the portrait of Comrade P Sundaraiyya, a legendary freedom fighter who was the first Leader of Opposition in Parliament in 1952."
He said as many as 159 CPI(M) workers lost their lives in the last three years, "mostly in clashes with Trinamool Congress and Maoists".
New Delhi (PTI): The attacks on CPI(M) offices in different parts of the country are "ominous" signal for democracy as they reflected the "fascistic intolerance" of the RSS-BJP in their bid to gain political mileage, senior CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury said on wednesday.
He also charged the Sangh Parivar with "refusing" to join the talks to restore peace in the troubled Kannur district in Kerala convened by Kerala Home Minister K Balakrishnan on "specious grounds".
"The fact that the RSS is refusing to join these talks to restore peace in Kannur is a clear indication of their desperation to maintain their political presence through spread of such violence," Yechury told reporters here.
Releasing a list of 12 CPI(M) activists killed allegedly by the RSS-BJP workers and a large number of attacks in Kerala since the Left and Democratic Front came to power in June 2006, he said "their frustration is clearly reflected in such increased violence against the Left as even the attendance in RSS shakhas in Kerala is dwindling."
Maintaining that even some allies of the BJP had condemned the attacks, Yechury said the LDF government had been appealing to all sides to stop violence and "we hope good sense will prevail on the RSS-BJP."
Referring to the attacks on his party offices in Hyderabad, Bangalore, Pune and Dehradun, he said "they had vandalised the portrait of Comrade P Sundaraiyya, a legendary freedom fighter who was the first Leader of Opposition in Parliament in 1952."
He said as many as 159 CPI(M) workers lost their lives in the last three years, "mostly in clashes with Trinamool Congress and Maoists".