‘T.N. has always been source of inspiration for secularism’

Thanking the voters in Tamil Nadu for giving their full support in 2019 general elections, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram Yechury said that in 2024 elections too, the people should give an absolute mandate of 40 out of 40 including Puducherry by voting for the candidates contesting on the DMK front here on Friday.

Speaking at an election campaign meeting for N. Sachidanandam, the CPI (M) candidate from Dindigul Lok Sabha constituency, he said that the people from Tamil Nadu have always been a source of inspiration to the political parties with secular credentials such as the DMK. The support from the people here this election should reverberate across the nation so that the INDIA bloc could sweep and defeat the BJP and its allies.

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BJP had indulged in systematic destruction of all independent institutions established under the Constitution. Never in the history that such destruction had happened. Time has come to stop the fascist forces such as the BJP and the RSS.

He said in every single action of the BJP, there had been destruction to the democratic fabric. The very fact that over 150 MPs were suspended in Parliament was unheard of. Such autocratic ways of the BJP had to be stopped and elected representatives should be allowed to air their views in public forums.

At a time when there were delays in judiciary due to shortage of judicial officers, the BJP refused to cooperate for the simple reason that the names recommended were not acceptable to them. Central enforcement agencies like the ED and the CBI had become tools of the BJP. The country had to be saved, he added.