The bugle for Lok Sabha election 2024 has been sounded by the CPI(M) on Tuesday from the elegant square in front of Thiruvananthapuram Raj Bhavan. Sitaram Yechury, the CPI(M) all India General Secretary flew down to the capital city to inaugurate the party’s demonstration demanding the sacking of Governor Arif Mohammed Khan whom the party commissar described as the stooge of the Sangh Parivar.
“This mammoth rally is the ultimatum to the Sangh Parivar and Prime Minister Narendra Modi who are out to infiltrate into the higher education centers of India to influence the minds of the youngsters with reactionary curriculum. The Sangh Parivar elements have taken control of Jawaharlal Nehru University. Jamia Milia Islamia, Aligarh Muslim University, Central Universities across the country which were centers of excellence till 2014. We have to get these institutions liberated from the shackles of the Saffron brigade,” said Yechury in his battle cry.
The CPI(M)’s glamour boy asked the people not to believe even a single word spoken by Prime Minister Modi. “He is repeating what Adolf Hitler did in Germany before the Second World War. Hitler created a wrong notion among the Germans that they were the blessed people with high intelligence and asked them to finish off other people. The Germans believed him and paid a high price for their thoughtlessness,” declared the CPI(M) boss.
The demonstration and laying in siege to Raj Bhavan was held in the backdrop of the deteriorated ties between Arif Mohammed Khan and the CPI(M). The LDF Government led by Pinarayi Vijayan has clipped the wings of Governor Khan by ousting him from the post of Chancellors in the universities in the State. Yechury declared that there was nothing surprising in the ouster of the Governor from the post of Chancellor. “Arif Mohammed Khan is holding the Chancellor’s post because of the goodwill of the CPI(M). There is no doubt that he should go,” declared Yechury.
All constituent units of the LDF were in attendance to hear and applause the speech delivered by Yechury. “All of you should bear in mind that India is not one country as claimed by Modi. The Prime Minister does not know about India and that is why he goes around the world claiming credit for everything,” said Yechury.
Though the CPI(M) had claimed that more than a lakh people would take part in the demonstration, police sources said that there were 25,000 people. In a show of solidarity with the party who wants to oust the Governor, thousands of workers from Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme joined the demonstration. They were transported to Raj Bhavan from far away places like Kannur and Kasaragod.