Telangana: Opposition dubs dharna as people’s movement to take on BJP, TRS

HYDERABAD: Communist Party of India (Marxist) national general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Wednesday said “desh bhakti” in the present day demands that the patriots take it up as their responsibility to save the country, its constitution and democracy from the misrule of Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led BJP government at the centre.
“Modi is demolishing all the four pillars of democracy and it is the duty of every patriot to save the constitution, democratic rights of the citizens and the country by joining the “mass movement” launched by the 20-opposition parties at the national level with the objective of saving the country by bringing down the Modi-government,” Yechury said.
Addressing a maha dharna of opposition parties organised against the anti-people and anti-farmer policies of BJP and TRS governments at Indira Park in Hyderabad, Yechury likened the launch of 20 opposition parties agitational programmes against the Modi-government at the national level as the second round of “people’s movement” after the Indian independence struggle to save the country.
“The Modi-government is targeting the opposition leaders by misusing central investigating agencies like the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) against them. The BJP is trying to impress upon the people that ultimately BJP will come to power even if they give their electoral mandate to other parties. The saffron party is either intimidating the opposition leaders to join its ranks or is buying them out,” he said.
He underlined the importance of a mass movement on the lines of freedom struggle to save the country and said that patriotism demands all those who love their country to come together to save its Constitution and democracy.
Make Bharat Bandh on September 27 a grand success to send a clear message to the central government that people, farmers and other sections of people are rejecting this anti-farmer and anti-people Modi government, he said.