Left Parties Should Unite To Stop Fanatics: CPI

The CPI Bus Yatra, which began from Jodeghat demanding support for the party's centenary meeting to be held in Khammam on December 26, continued across several mandals of Godavarikhani and Peddapalli districts today.

Addressing a meeting chaired by CPI Peddapalli District Secretary Tandra Sadanand, CPI senior leader and former MLA Chada Venkat Reddy said that the CPI was completing 100 years in the country, and credited the party for consistently fighting for the rights of the poor, workers and farmers over the past century. He said that the CPI held the distinction of organising the armed peasant struggle in Telangana, playing a key role in ending the Nizam's rule, and providing freedom to the people.

He said that the latest challenge to the people was the BJP government at the Centre darkening their future by aligning with big capitalists and corporate forces, and that the Left and democratic forces needed to unite to fight against it. He said that the Maoists should also join hands with the Communist parties for this purpose, and that the Left parties needed to be strengthened to counter the religious and capitalist agenda of the BJP and stop fanatic forces in the country.

He added that the CPI was preparing to hold its centenary celebrations on a grand scale on December 26 in Khammam, known as the gateway of people's movements, and that bus yatras were being organised from various parts of the State, and urged the people to attend the celebrations in large numbers.