Terming TMC chief Mamata Banerjee as undemocratic, CPI General Secretary S Sudhakar Reddy on Tuesday said she can’t be the part of the Opposition alliance against the BJP, an assertion indicating the inherent difficulties in the road ahead for the Opposition to join hands to take on a common foe. He said the TRS and the TMC’s plans to float a ‘Federal Front’ are “actually a plan B of the BJP” and the Opposition needs to forge State-based alliances to take on the saffron party in 2019.
After a two-day meet of the CPI national executive, Reddy expressed satisfaction over the party’s initiative to unite all secular democratic forces to defeat the BJP. “We were one of the first parties to say that the need of the hour is to have a State-based alliance of secular democratic parties to defeat the BJP.
We have been proved right. All Opposition parties should chalk out a strategy for the 2019 lok Sabha polls. The TRS’ idea of a federal front is only a plan B of the BJP,” Reddy said. The left party also decided to protest the recent fuel price hike on June 20. CPI National Council Secretaries Dr K Narayana and D Raja were also present in the press conference. The party asked all its units to conduct an awareness campaign in August to “expose the misdeeds of the Modi Government”.
It also decided to take out protest marches from “four corners of the country” with the slogan “Save the Constitution, Save the Nation”. The marches, which will begin in September and culminate in the first week of October, will be led by senior leaders of the party.