"BJP has been campaigning against 'triple talaq' and in the upcoming polls (in UP), it will face 'triple talaq' like situation after its debacle in Delhi and Bihar.
"The first talaq for the BJP and RSS was in Delhi Assembly elections followed by Bihar...Now the third talaq will be in Uttar Pradesh," he told reporters here.
The CPI(M) leader said the Left Front parties will contest for selected seats in Uttar Pradesh, where the Left movement has had its impact on the public to "defeat communal parties and ensure that the voices of the deprived are raised in the assembly."
The Left leader said BJP desperately wanted to win the upcoming state polls, especially for 2019 Lok Sabha polls, for which "new problems have been forced on the common man", while comparing notebandi (demonetisation) with nasbandi (sterilisation).
Yechury also blamed RSS and BJP for a series of attacks on Left cadres in Kerala.
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Yechury further alleged that BJP was resorting to "systemic violence" in Kerala after an MLA from the party was elected to the Kerala Legislative assembly last year.
The Left leader added that BJP and RSS were striving to "polarise Hindutva vote bank" and it was the "worst form of vote bank politics.
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