‘If TMC is a constituent, CPM won’t join alliance’

  • | Tuesday | 22nd January, 2019

“Let the proposal come in (from Congress), than we will respond after a due deliberation,” he added. He said, “Religion cannot be the basis to provide Indian citizenship. The country should have a religion neutral approach to give citizenship to the refugees.”Replying to a question, Karat said there has been no talk with the Congress as far as political alliance for Lok Sabha polls is concerned. JAMSHEDPUR: Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM), which is already a constituent of the opposition mahagathbandhan in the state for the upcoming assembly polls, on Monday said such a coalition at the national level is not practical and the anti-BJP parties should solely focus on state-specific alliances to beat the NDA in the upcoming general elections.Addressing a press conference here, senior CPM leader Prakash Karat argued that contradictions among alliance partners will prevent setting up of a mahagathbandhan to fight BJP at the national level. He said, “Almost 12,000 farmers committed suicide annually between 2014 and 2017 which is a sign of the government failing the farming community to provide them their due rights.” Quoting from the 2018 report of the Centre for Monitoring India Economy (CMIE), Karat claimed that over one billion jobs are lost due to “faulty economic policies” of the Modi government.He said, “The alarming jump in the unemployment rate of the educated youths in the country today is unparallel if we match up with the annual unemployment rate of the last 20 years.”On the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2019, the ex-general secretary of CPM said his party is opposed to it.

JAMSHEDPUR: Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM), which is already a constituent of the opposition mahagathbandhan in the state for the upcoming assembly polls, on Monday said such a coalition at the national level is not practical and the anti-BJP parties should solely focus on state-specific alliances to beat the NDA in the upcoming general elections.Addressing a press conference here, senior CPM leader Prakash Karat argued that contradictions among alliance partners will prevent setting up of a mahagathbandhan to fight BJP at the national level. “CPM will not be part of any such alliance that has Trinamool Congress (TMC) in it,” Karat said, referring to the recent mega rally of opposition parties in Kolkata organised by West Bengal’s ruling TMC, where an understanding has been seemingly reached to form a coalition to take on the BJP at the coming Lok Sabha election.He further targetted TMC, whose leader Mamata Banerjee ended the decades-long CPM’s reign in West Bengal , saying there is hardly any difference between the BJP and the Mamata-led party.Karat claimed that the January 19 rally of the opposition parties at the Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata was convened with the slogan to ‘save democracy’, but criticised TMC for misleading the other parties, saying TMC is a party which indulges in undemocratic means to stop opposition party candidates from filing nomination papers during the last panchayat and civic body polls in West Bengal.The Communist leader, who was here to attend a party programme, further said the Narendra Modi-government has failed the country. He said, “Almost 12,000 farmers committed suicide annually between 2014 and 2017 which is a sign of the government failing the farming community to provide them their due rights.” Quoting from the 2018 report of the Centre for Monitoring India Economy (CMIE), Karat claimed that over one billion jobs are lost due to “faulty economic policies” of the Modi government.He said, “The alarming jump in the unemployment rate of the educated youths in the country today is unparallel if we match up with the annual unemployment rate of the last 20 years.”On the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2019, the ex-general secretary of CPM said his party is opposed to it. He said, “Religion cannot be the basis to provide Indian citizenship. The country should have a religion neutral approach to give citizenship to the refugees.”Replying to a question, Karat said there has been no talk with the Congress as far as political alliance for Lok Sabha polls is concerned. “Let the proposal come in (from Congress), than we will respond after a due deliberation,” he added.

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