Kochi: CPM state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan has iterated that India has joined with the US, Japan and Australia to form an axis against China. Speaking after inaugurating the delegate session of the CPM Ernakulam district conference in Kochi on Tuesday, the CPM leader repeated his earlier statement that India had joined with the US for anti-China activities.
He also justified the arms build-up by North Korea saying that it was for self-defence as the US was following a strategy of militarily dominating North Korea. The US was arming South Korea with this idea in mind, he added.
Brushing aside the criticism raised by BJP leaders in the state in this regard, Kodiyeri said that the CPM would express its views on ideological issues, emerging international situation and the attitude towards socialist countries.
“This does not mean that CPM is guided by the Chinese Communist Party or Korean Communist Party”, Kodiyeri said. “An organised and planned campaign is on to create the impression that the CPM is following the path of China and Korea”, he added.
The CPM leader also dismissed the criticism that the party was acting as a Chinese agent by making a critical evaluation of the foreign policy of the country adopted by the NDA Government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Kodiyeri also launched a severe criticism against the Modi government in connection with the recent action by the four senior judges of the Supreme Court.
Even the lives of judges were not safe, he said referring to the mysterious circumstance of the death of a judge, considering the case in which BJP president Amit Shah was one of the accused. The issue that has cropped up in the Supreme Court was the result of the policy of the BJP government to make the judiciary subservient to the government, he added.
The CPM state secretary also launched an attack against the Congress and said that the party was following an anti-CPM policy in the state.
He also said that the Congress-led UDF in the state was in disarray with many of the constituents leaving the front. In this context, he welcomed the decision the of the JDU led by MP Veerendra Kumar to leave the UDF.
