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Left: mere electoral efforts inadequate

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NEW DELHI: The Left Parties said on Sunday the Gujarat elections showed that if the impact of communal politics was deep, mere electoral efforts were inadequate to defeat such forces.

In a statement, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) said, “What is required is a determined and uncompromising struggle against the communal ideology of Hindutva and the capacity to launch sustained struggles of all sections of the people who suffered from the rightwing economic policies of the Modi government.”

The All-India Forward Bloc said the Congress failed to utilise the subjective conditions in Gujarat such as the rebellion in the Bharatiya Janata Party and the underdevelopment in the rural areas to its advantage.

A progressive secular alternative led by the Left parties would be the real alternative to the BJP. “The leaders of the Communist parties should come forward to float such a united platform against the communal BJP and the corrupt Congress,” party general secretary Debabrata Biswas said.

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