New Delhi, Aug 07: The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued a statement on a wide range of issues including the violence in Manipur and Haryana, Gyanvapi mosque, hate crimes, Delhi Ordinance, and price rise across the country.
The party in a statement issued here said that the committee met in New Delhi on August 4 to 6 and expressed its indignation at the fact that for over three months now, the ethnic conflict with communal dimensions in Manipur is raging leaving hundreds dead, tens of thousands displaced and surviving in relief camps under inhuman conditions.
“The culpability of the state government is clear enough… PM Modi has chosen to abdicate the responsibility of being accountable to Parliament which has resulted in the total disruption of Parliamentary proceedings. The spreading of the Manipur conflict to the nearby states in the North East has very serious consequences,” the Central Committee said and demanded that as the first step in the direction of restoring normalcy and peace in the State, its Chief Minister Biren Singh “must go”.
The committee strongly condemned the “unleashing of brutal bulldozer politics” by the Haryana BJP government following the communal violence in the Mewat region, starting with Nuh, and spreading to Gurugram and other places. “Instead of taking firm action against the culprits and those who provoked that engineered this violence, the Haryana BJP state government is targeting the minority community, embarking on a large exercise of demolishing shops and residences of the Muslim community,” it said.
The CPI(M) also said that the horrifying killing by a railway police force constable of an officer and three Muslim passengers is a dehumanizing hate crime which is “growing as a result of the vicious hate speeches and propaganda by the BJP-RSS demonizing the Muslim community”.
On the Gyanvapi mosque issue, the Central Committee said it is dismayed as to “why the judiciary at the highest level is not strictly enforcing the implementation of the Places of Worship Act 1991 which provides the status quo regarding all places of worship in the country after independence”.
On Delhi Ordinance, the committee said the Modi government’s “authoritarian move” is a “direct assault on the federal character of the Constitution and the norms of accountability and democratic governance as defined by the Supreme Court.”
There is a growing and alarming trend in attacks and crimes against women and girl children, the party said. It also expressed deep concern at the removal of questions related to the prevalence of anemia and those related to disability from the National Family Health Survey – 6.
The Central Committee extended its support to the call of Adivasi organizations for nationwide protests on August 9 against the Forest Conservation (Amendment) Act 2023 and the Uniform Civil Code. The party has called upon all party units to observe an all-India protest week against the price rise and for jobs creation from September 1 to 7, 2023.
