Reddy said that corporates and international capital “after milking the pliable UPA-II government to the maximum, were now bidding for a more subservient regime. “(They have) opted for BJP's prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi, who stinks of blood since 2002 and is known for his authoritarian mentality.
“No stone is left unturned to project this individual with neo-fascist streak by the media controlled by the corporate houses,” Reddy alleged.
CPI National Secretary D Raja said AIADMK was present in the convention against communalism where its party chief and Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's speech was read out. Subsequently, the party was also part of a non-Congress, anti-BJP block in Parliament and participated in protests outside Parliament with the Left parties.
“All this happened and now if that party moves away it is for that party to explain. But our efforts to bring as many secular democratic forces to provide an alternative to Congress and BJP will continue,” he said. Raja, too, attacked Modi, claiming that he was known for “his abusive language and arrogance. He is more an RSS candidate than a BJP candidate. As far as Modi's criticism of Third Front, we don't call it that (Third Front), but even if it is so, why is he so worried about it.
“Earlier, Modi thought Congress is anyway on its way out and automatically people will vote for BJP, but now people are getting a choice presented by non-Congress, non BJP parties. That is why BJP is rattled, and Mr Modi is desperate,” Raja said.
He said that the main platform presented by the non-Congress, non-BJP parties was for “protecting the economic sovereignty of the country and for alternative pro-people policies and development whose gains would be shared by all segments of society.
Their fight was for “a regime that alters the disastrous course of neo-liberalism while protecting and strengthening secular democracy and independent foreign policy and weeding out corruption,” he added.
