Environment, Dalit activists need to join secular parties to defeat BJP: Yechury

CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury said that efforts should be made to defeat the BJP first at the State level and after that, a national alternative will be formed

CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury called for bringing together non-political forces including environment and Dalit activists along with secular regional parties to defeat propagators of the “Hindutva Rashtra”.

He said that efforts should be made to defeat the BJP first at the State level and after that, a national alternative will be formed.

"People's movements on various issues, like Dalit movements, environment and climate change have to be brought together, thus strengthening Left and democratic forces," he said.

The CPI(M) leader said that it is necessary to bring together secular parties, apart from these movements, to "defeat the poison of communalism".

This "broad platform" needs to be strengthened to defeat the “Hindutva Rashtra propagators”.

Holding that some regional parties are consistently fighting against communal forces, he said that they need to be brought together.

"This has to be done at the state level first to create an alternative (to the BJP)," he said at a programme here on Monday to mark the 103rd foundation day of the Communist Party of India.