CPI-M slams RSS for spreading 'communal poison'

Attacks on religious places of minorities, including the alleged rape of a nun in West Bengal, are taking place due to the "communal poison" spread by RSS, which has set the agenda for the Narendra Modi government, CPI-M today said.
The party said that such incidents show the "grave" dangers facing the country's unity and social harmony.
"The communal poison being spread by the various RSS tentacles are leading to an increase in attacks at places of worship belonging to religious minorities.
"This is in direct contrast to... The fundamental rights provided by the Constitution in the secular, democratic republic of India," party leader Sitaram Yechury wrote in an editorial in CPI(M) organ, 'People's Democracy'.

Noting that the latest incident was the "despicable" rape of a septuagenarian nun in Bengal, he said that notwithstanding the widespread anger and protests in the area, "no action" has been taken and no suspects arrested so far.
"Coming against the backdrop of mounting attacks against religious minorities, this incident shows the grave extent to which the dangers to our country's unity and people's social harmony are being mounted," he said.

The party leader wrote that RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has reportedly stated that Narendra Modi's tenure during the last nine months has been "satisfactory in totality".
"RSS has set the agenda for the Modi government, which functions as nothing else but its political arm. On one hand, to sharpen communal polarisation to succeed in its effort to transform the secular democratic foundations of our modern Indian republic into a rabidly intolerant 'Hindu Rashtra' of RSS variety.

"And on the other, to brazenly advance economic policies that permit both foreign and domestic corporates to maximise profit at the expense of the vast majority of our people and through the indiscriminate loot of our resources," Yechury said.