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Kochi, Mar 3 (PTI) The Congress party"s "flirting with soft Hindutva" has only made it weaker as compared to the past and therefore, it is in no position to take on the BJP and RSS and remove them from controlling the government, CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury said on Thursday.
Speaking to the media during the third day of the four-day long party state conference at Ernakulam, Yechury said it is the Left alone which is presently able to "ideologically, politically and organisationally take on the challenge posed by the Hindutva forces.
"The Hindutva agenda of RSS and BJP can only be defeated by a firm adherence to secularism.
Any amount of flirting with soft Hindutva will only feed into the agenda of Hindutva forces and that is what Congress keeps doing.
"In that sense, Congress today, compared to the past, is considerably weakened and many in the BJP and RSS do not see it as a major threat, primarily because at any point of time, any of its leaders can be lured away to join the BJP as is happening many a time," he said.
So a weakened Congress would be unable to take on the challenge posed by the Hindutva agenda, he said and added that its compromising attitude will not help remove the BJP from controlling the government.