CPI(M)'s protest rally in Kolkata against razing of Lenin statue

The CPI(M) top brass, including its general secretary Sitaram Yechury, today took out a rally in the city in protest against the pulling down of a statue of communist icon Vladimir Lenin in Tripura.
Yechury along with Politburo members Prakash Karat, Brinda Karat, Biman Bose, M A Baby and CPI(M) state secretary Surya Kanta Mishra walked in the rally from Promode Dasgupta Bhawan to Lenin's statue in Esplande area in the heart of the city.
''We condemn such fascist onslaught against the CPI(M) cadres and workers in Tripura. We may have lost an election (in Tripura) but that has not given anyone the right to attack and kill our party workers," Yechury said.

The CPI(M) today accused the BJP and the Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT) of unleashing an ''unprecedented reign of terror'' in the state after the declaration of the election results. The saffron party and its tribal ally had won 43 of the 60 seats in the state assembly, ending 25 years of Left rule in the north eastern state.
Yechury appealed to all secular and democratic forces in the country to put up a united fight against the Modi government.
Yesterday, the statue of Lenin was pulled down by some people with an excavator machine at Belonia in South Tripura district, with the CPI-M holding BJP workers responsible for it.