CPI to support congress in ensuing polls in Karnataka

BENGALURU: Besides, itself contesting candidates in seven Assembly seats of Karnataka in ensuing elections, the Communist Party of India has announced its decision to support the Congress nominees in 215 seats with an aim to defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) nominees.

Along with Congress party, CPI is supporting Darshan Puttanaiah of Sarvodaya Karnataka Party in Melukote seat in Mandya and also CPI (M) nominee Anil Kumar in Bagepalli in Chikkaballapura district.

At a press conference here on Sunday, CPI leaders Sundaresh and H.V. Ananth Subbarao along with general secretary of All India Congress Committee (AICC) Randeep Singh Surjewala, the CPI leaders stated their support for Congress nominees stated that the decision to Congress party is not only to defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party nominees but also to avert chances of a hung Assembly in Karnataka.

“The need of the hour is to support a party with secular and democratic credentials,” the CPI leaders said.

Recalling the 2018 Assembly elections in Karnataka, the CPI leaders said owing to hung Assembly in the State then, a coalition government between Janata Dal Secular and Congress party came into existence and later on the BJP grabbed power in the State through poaching of MLAs of opposition parties.

The CPI leaders said the opposition parties MLAs were made to resign and imposed by-polls in the State and after coming to power in Karnataka, BJP indulged in alleged ‘massive” corruption.

Taking a dig at Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, the Communist leaders said there were several instances wherein CM himself has instigated to disturb communal amity in the State and the rule of Bommai proved to a burden on common man since he took no measures to control rise in prices of essential commodities.

Continuing their attack on Bommai, the Communist leaders said the leaders of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) imposed certain decisions on theirs over the Stated such Anti-Conversion law and also Cow Slaughter legislation through Bommai.

Under the BJP rule in Karnataka, the Communist leaders alleged that atrocities on dalits increased and the State Government turned a blind eye to it.

Randeep Singh Surjewala thanked Communist Party of India (CPI) over their decision to support Congress nominees and that the support of CPI is a major step to fight the BJP.