The religious minorities have begun to rally around the secular-democratic space offered by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)], a fact discernible from the Assembly election results in Kerala, CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury has said.
The party, he said in an interview with The Hindu on the sidelines of the CPI(M) State conference here on Wednesday, believed that the answer to majority communalism wasn’t minority fundamentalism, but a secular democratic movement. “And our appeal to the minorities, and the other oppressed sections like Dalits, Adivasis and women, to join this space is evincing a good response. The process of consolidation is taking place,” he said.
Combating, isolating, and defeating the communal forces was of paramount importance for India’s Constitutional order and for the welfare of the people. The Left had been doing it unwaveringly wherever it was in a position do so. “That’s why even the BJP sees us as their arch-rival ideologically, politically, and organisationally,” he said.
