Kolkata: Accusing the BJP and Trinamul Congress of playing “competitive communalism” over Ram Navami celebration in West Bengal CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Sunday saw an “ominous sign” in what he described as a “mutual feeding of each other” and “tacit understanding” between the two parties in the Lok Sabha Elections.
At the state CPI(M) headquarters Mr Yechury said, “This Baisakhi is being observed as a mark of respect of the centennary Jalliwanwala Bagh massacre all over the country. One would have expected, apart from the CPI(M) and Left, that people would be mobilised in Bengal for such an important event.”
He noted, “Unfortuantely it has been missed out and Bengal has been more on Ram Navami now and the competitive communalism that is taking place between the BJP and Trinamul. Yesterday I was in Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling constituencies of North Bengal. What appears is that there is a sort of a mutual feeding of each other between the Trinamul and BJP. This is a very ominous sign for Bengal because this sort of competitive communalism is going to erase any democractic civil activity.”
The CPI(M) general secretary claimed, “There is some sort of an understanding that is evolving because ideologically and in terms of objectives it suits both the Trinamul and BJP to have each other as adversary because they feed each other. The greater communal polarisation from one end will feed the communal polarisation on the other. This has always been the problem among the communal forces.”
