CPM alleges BJP rule increased misery, communal polarisstaion

The CPI(M) today alleged that the NDA government's three-year rule has been marked by greater misery for people, threat to country's integrity through communal polarisation and undermining of Parliamentary democracy.

Coming down heavily on the Modi government, CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury accused it of pursuing communal agenda of BJP's "mentor" RSS. He said the country's internal security remained in "mess", while its economy had slowed down.

Picking holes in the government's performance till now, Yechury said the "rich became richer, while the poor became poorer" under the Modi regime. He claimed one per cent of country's population is controlling 58 per cent of the GDP.

"When Mr Modi became India's Prime Minister, 49 per cent GDP in the hands of India's one per cent population. By 2016, this one percent controlled asset value to the tune of 58 percent of GDP. This in itself is the whole story," Yechury told reporters.

The Marxist leader hit out at the government also on the issue of employment generation in industrial sector and retrenchment of staffers by major IT firms and said that the future of the youth is "very bleak" under the NDA government.

Yechury targeted the government over suicides by farmers out of "sheer pressure of debt".

He also said the government did not fulfil its promise of giving farmers a minimum support price of one and half times the cost of the inputs during the period.

"The overall distress in the agrarian sector is deepening. That is the state of farmers. So what 'Bright India' they (government) are talking about? What is the cause of celebration we do not know," Yechury said.

Accompanied by party politburo members Brinda Karat and MA Baby, Yechury also raised concerns over cow protection committees allegedly taking law into their hands and targeting Dalits and Muslims in particular.

The Rajya Sabha member alleged that "this communal polarisation" will endanger the country's integrity.

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