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US body accuses India of failing to protect minorities
A US government body
tasked with making policy recommendations has accused India of doing
"so little to protect and bring justice to its religious minorities
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Vijayawada:
Tweaking a bit its earlier stand of maintaining equidistance from
Congress and BJP, the CPI (M) today indicated that communalism posed
a greater threat to the nation and asked the Centre and states to
make no concessions to such forces.
"The forces of majority communalism
work on the basis of the Hindutva ideology and outlook which is
injurious to the country and people's unity," party General
Secretary Prakash Karat said at the inaugural session of the
three-day extended Central Committee meeting here.
He said the BJP-run state governments in Gujarat, Karnataka or
Madhya Pradesh "are targeting the minorities, both Muslims and
Christians, and seek to deprive them of their rights as citizens".
The recent exposures of "how the
police and State machinery in Gujarat have been used to cover-up the
pogroms and stage encounter killings are a chilling reminder of what
is in store for the country if such forces come to power", Karat
said.
"Terrorist violence emanating from whichever source should be put
down firmly," he said, adding that this required both the central
and state governments not to make any concession to the communal
forces.
He also attacked the Congress for
pursuing ''neo-liberal'' policies, which was "an outlook and
philosophy which worships the market and promotes greed and
rapacity.
"Every institution of the State and every pore of our society is
getting polluted and corrupted. The nexus between big business and
politics is now out in the open," Karat said asking party members to
fight against these tendencies.
The Coimbatore Congress of the CPI(M) had laid down a path to
maintain equidistance from Congress and BJP, terming them as ''twin
danger''. But the inaugural speech by Karat indicates that
communalism was a greater danger.
The top CPI (M) leader called for strengthening Left unity and
widening the support for a "Left and democratic alternative" but
stopped short of suggesting a Third Front.
He said this was the charter for
political and social change in India which the CPI (M) and the Left
would advocate.
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