Sitaram Yechury Addresses Massive CPI(M) Statewide Rally in Patna
On September 22, 2022, the CPI(M) Bihar state committee organised a massive statewide public meeting of over 25,000 people from 35 districts, at the Gandhi Maidan in Patna. This was a part of the Party's nationwide campaign from September 14 to 22 against the Modi-led BJP-RSS government.
The main speaker was CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury. It was also addressed by PBM Dr Ashok Dhawale, State Secretary and CCM Lalan Choudhary, CCM Awadhesh Kumar, State Secretariat members Sarvodaya Sharma, Arun Kumar Mishra, Vinod Kumar, Shyam Bharati, Rajendra Prasad Singh, Rampari, Sanjay Kumar and Bhola Divakar. It was presided over by Ajay Kumar, MLA.
Sitaram Yechury sharply attacked the anti-people, pro-corporate, authoritarian and communal policies of the BJP-RSS regime led by Modi and Shah. He recalled the lead given by Bihar and Jayaprakash Narayan in the struggle against the Emergency, which succeeded in restoring democracy, saved the country and the Constitutional order. Today again the time has come to save democracy, secularism, the Constitution and the country from the BJP-RSS. He declared that all the left and secular forces in Bihar and throughout India will come together and mobilise the people to oust the Modi regime in 2024. Like in 1974, the road to Indraprastha will again begin from Pataliputra. In this context he hailed the coming together of all secular and left forces in Bihar, which would be a model for the whole country.
Dr Ashok Dhawale attacked the Modi regime's policies which led to astronomical price rise, unemployment, poverty and hunger, and attacked the working class, peasantry, agricultural workers, women, youth and students. It is shamelessly selling off the country to its crony corporates, and is using the British imperialist policy of Divide and Rule on the basis of religion and caste. He called for strengthening people's resistance to throw this regime out of power.
Lalan Choudhary, Awadhesh Kumar, Ajay Kumar and other state leaders concentrated on the serious problems of the people of Bihar, and said that with the new secular and left political alignment, the BJP would find it difficult to win even a single Lok Sabha seat in Bihar.
Yesterday Sitaram Yechury met Lalu Prasad Yadav and Nitish Kumar in Patna and held discussions with them. He also addressed the media just after the public meeting.
