Sitaram Yechury flays Modi, Shah for calling oppositions ‘traitors’

CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah for labelling opposition leaders as 'traitors' and their supporters as 'terrorists' whenever they voice opposition to the repealing of Article 370 of the Indian constitution that accorded a special status to Jammu and Kashmir.

Describing the comments made by Modi and Shah on opposition leaders as 'heinous and derogatory', Yechury on Friday said that such a level of attack on political opponents was 'unprecedented'.

"Modi and Shah are making comments about opposition leaders which are heinous and derogatory. Such level of attack on political opponents is unprecedented," the CPI(M) top gun said.

"It is now a trend on their part to label opposition leaders as traitors and supporters as terrorists if they raise questions on abrogation of Article 370," he said.

Yechury also lashed out at the faulty economic policies of the Modi government for the country getting into an 'unprecedented crisis'.

"It is due to the faulty policies of the Modi government that the country has got caught in such an unprecedented crisis," the the CPI(M) general secretary said.

He also alleged that the BJP-led NDA government was ruining the country's constitutional structure and secular fabric though its policies.

Yechury also referred to the way the bill were being bulldozed in Parliament without giving any scope for proper scrutiny by standing committees.

On Thursday, CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury said, any updation of the NRC beyond Assam would be "anti-people" with the BJP and the RSS endeavouring to use it to further their "divisive communal agenda" and ruin the country's secular fabric by fomenting "terror and mistrust.”

"The Narendra Modi-led BJP government is now harping on extending the NRC process to the entire country. This is uncalled for and it is being done to target certain sections of people polarise the society ... Aand thereby consolidate the Hundutva vote bank.

"The BJP and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh want to destroy the country's secular fabric and further their divisive communal agenda by fanning terror and mistrust in the country," Yechury said speaking at a function commemorating hundred years of the formation of the Communist Party of India at Tashkent, then a part of the USSR.

with IANS inputs