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BJP, RSS assailed

Vinay Kumar

COIMBATORE: CPI(M) leader Prakash Karat said on Saturday that the Congress-led government “believes in economic policies which benefit big businesses and the affluent.” Its overall thrust was on liberalisation and privatisation, he said in his opening speech at the 19th party Congress here.

Attacking the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh for continuing their hate campaign against the minorities, Mr. Karat said every issue, be it terrorism, social problem, culture or politics, “is viewed from the communal sectarian viewpoint.”

Warning that cultural nationalism were only “code words” for the Hindu Rashtra of the RSS, he declared that the party Congress would work out appropriate tactics to isolate the BJP and prevent any opportunistic line-up around it for electoral gains.

“While doing so, the party will also counter the fundamentalist and extremist elements in the minority community.”

On the third alternative, he said it should be based on an alternative platform of policies and could not merely be an electoral alliance. “There are democratic and secular parties which can agree with the Left on pro-people economic policies, on social justice measures and on an independent foreign policy. Such a platform will be irrevocably anti-communal in nature. The party Congress will deliberate on how to proceed in this direction.”

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