CPI(M) front against attempt to make India a 'Hindu rashtra'

The CPI(M) today said it would form a Left and democratic front to launch a movement to resist the Modi government's alleged attempt to make India a 'Hindu rastra'.
"After the Modi government came to power, people are facing severe economic crisis, the state's secular fabric is under attack, the risk of communalism is on a rise and the history of the country is being distorted," CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury said here.
"Now we have taken an initiative to form a Left and democratic front to resist all these," he said without elaborating.
The party's recently held Kolkata plenum has resolved to make it "a revolutionary party with mass line", and launch movements against the NDA government led by Narendra Modi, the senior party leader said.

People are facing deep economic crisis and the value of the currency compared to USD was going down day by day, he said adding fuel price is going up though it is downwards in the international market, he said.
"The growth of manufacturing industry is now minus three per cent. Growth of agriculture is minus two per cent, and, as a result of which peasants were committing suicide.

So, the economic crisis is rising and the burden on the people is also rising," he said.
Yechury was addressing a function on centenary celebration of Dasharath Debbarma, a former Chief Minister of the state and a legendary tribal leader.

He said the party's politburo meeting on February 15 and Central Committee meeting on February 17 and 18 would decide about forging an alliance with Congress in West Bengal.