Use bulldozers against BJP leaders in Bihar: CPI

Atul Anjan says BJP’s ‘Ashwamedh Yagya’ has blocked the road in Bihar, where Advani’s Rath Yatra was stopped.

Atul Anjan says BJP’s ‘Ashwamedh Yagya’ has blocked the road in Bihar, where Advani’s Rath Yatra was stopped.

The Communist Party of India (CPI) has asked Mahagathbandhan government in BiharWhich he is supporting from outside, for using bulldozers against Bharatiya Janata Party leaders in the state.

CPI national secretary, Atul Anjan also demanded that a “white paper” be brought on the “wrongfully acquired” assets of BJP leaders in the state to dispel the notion that “only other parties are corrupt”. .

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Bulldozers being used to remove illegal structures during a joint anti-encroachment operation by NDMC, PWD, local bodies and police in violence-hit Jahangirpuri area, in New Delhi in April 2022. file photo | photo credit: PTI

“Come on (CM) Nitish Kumar and (Deputy CM) Tejashwi Prasad Direct the authorities concerned to identify and demolish structures belonging to BJP leaders encroaching upon public land. Bulldozers should now be used against the party.

“If Nitish and Tejashwi protested, we would take it as lack of moral courage (moral courage) on their part,” Mr Anjan said.

The CPI leader said his party was still ready to join the cabinet in the state, unlike other Left parties – CPI(ML) and CPI(M), which have ruled out such a possibility.

“But we have not received any proposal so far. And we do not want ministerial berth at the cost of unity among the alliance partners,” he said.

Responding to a question, the CPI leader said the party believed that Mr Kumar would play an “important role” in establishing unity among opposition parties in the country.

He, however, shrugged off questions about Mr. Kumar being “prime minister material”, saying, “We will cross the bridge when we reach him. We need to take his name before the child is born.” Shouldn’t try.”

However, Mr Anjan said a weak Congress had given the BJP “courage” and “its Ashwamedha Yagya has hit a roadblock in Bihar, the same land where Advani’s Rath Yatra was stopped”.

RJD chief and then Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad had stopped Advani’s Ram Rath Yatra in Samastipur in October 1990.

The CPI leader emphasized the need to combat communalism which was manifested in “slandering of the Prophet on the one hand and the cry of ‘Sar tan se juda’ (beheading) on ​​the other.

He also accused the Narendra Modi government at the Center of ruining the economy and indulging in “window dressing” in the face of a fall in foreign exchange reserves and the rupee.

Stating that the CPI is more committed to protecting national interests than communist China, Mr Anjan blamed the Modi government for the skewed balance of payments and a “white paper” on the territory allegedly encroached by the neighboring country. “Challenge to bring. ,