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CPI(M) to hold week-long campaign against terrorism, send delegation to J&K
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....PI(M) to hold week-long campaign against terrorism, send delegation to J&K<BR>PTI News<BR>Dated:- 6-6-2025<BR>PTI<BR>New Delhi, June 6 (PTI) The CPI(M) will hold a week-long campaign against terrorism in June, besides sending a delegation led by its general secretary M A Baby to Jammu and Kashmir next week, the party said on Friday. The Left party also said that it will hold programmes "in defenc....
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....e of democracy" to mark 50 years of the declaration of Emergency, adding that the occasion will be used to "expose the dubious role of the RSS during Emergency". The decisions were taken at a meeting of the central committee of the CPI(M) held in the national capital from June 3-5. The CPI(M) said its central committee has decided to observe a week-long campaign in June against "terrorism, war m....
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....ongering and efforts to spread communal hatred" using the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack. A party delegation led by Baby will visit Kashmir on June 10-11, it said. The other members of the delegation include Lok Sabha MPs Amra Ram, K Radhakrishnan and Su Venkatesan, and Rajya Sabha MPs John Brittas, Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharyya and A A Rahim. Addressing a press conference after the meeting, Bab....
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....y said the central committee paid tributes to those who lost their lives in the Pahalgam terror attack, and also slammed the ruling BJP for trying to "utilise" the attack for electoral gains. "After Operation Sindoor, the prime minister and the BJP tried to utilise the military operation for partisan political purposes. The speeches of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Bihar and West Bengal made th....
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....is glaringly evident," he alleged. The central committee also condemned the government's refusal to convene a special session of Parliament post the terror attack and the subsequent military action under Operation Sindoor. Questioning the "new doctrine" of the government, the Left party said the CPI(M) has consistently maintained that military means cannot be the sole solution to curb terrorism.....
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.... "Diplomatic, political and other measures have to be pursued to fight terrorism. The new doctrine announced by the prime minister forecloses all these options. This approach will only fuel jingoism, strengthen extremist forces on both sides of the border, and further widen the communal divide," Baby said. The CPI(M) leader also said the government should clarify on US President Donald Trump's c....
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....laim that he brokered peace between India and Pakistan to put a halt on the recent military conflict between the two sides. "We are opposed to internationalisation of the India-Pakistan relationship, and the Kashmir problem," he said. "According to the so-called security doctrine of Narendra Modi, which he has declared as the new norm, if some terrorist activity happens somewhere, we consider it....
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.... as an attack on India by Pakistan. This means that the India-Pakistan relationship and the nature of the ties can be determined by a group of terrorists," Baby said. The Left party also said that it will immediately organise protests against the Israeli genocide in Gaza, Palestine. It will hold programmes "in defence of democracy and to expose the authoritarianism of the present government on t....
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....he occasion of 50 years of the declaration of Emergency". "This occasion will be used to expose the dubious role of the RSS during Emergency," the CPI(M) said in a statement. Then prime minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of Emergency across the country for a 21-month period from 1975 to 1977 citing internal and external threats to India. Asked about the programmes, Baby said, "We would dis....
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....cuss how the CPI(M) fought the Emergency. The present Kerala chief minister (Pinarayi Vijayan) was badly harmed physically during that period when he was an MLA. He even displayed his blood-stained shirt in the Kerala Assembly." "The CPI(M) fought for democracy. We would recapitulate those times. We would also expose the dubious role of the RSS," Baby said, as he claimed that then RSS chief Balas....
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....aheb Deoras had a secret meeting with then prime minister Indira Gandhi. Asked about the Congress, Baby said, "Everybody knows that Emergency was declared by Mrs Gandhi. It is also an irony that those who imposed Emergency in 1975 are now talking about undeclared emergency. It is a very good turn of events." The CPI(M) also demanded that India should immediately stop arms export to Israel, and c....
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....ut military and security ties with the country. "The government should stand firm with the cause of Palestine, reiterate our solidarity and stick to our long-standing foreign policy position for a two-state solution," Baby said. Expressing concern over the state of the economy, Baby claimed the government is tom-tomming that the Indian economy is going to outstrip Japan by the end of this year t....
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....o become the fourth largest economy, but it is hiding facts like the vast difference in per capita income between the two countries. On the Free Trade Agreement between India and the UK, and ongoing negotiations for one with the US, the CPI(M) alleged the deals are "non-transparent, without consultations or concerns for protecting the interests of farmers and workers". PTI AO ARI ARI<BR> News - P....
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....ress release - PIB....