Sitaram Yechury, Joint Secretary of Communist Party of India (CPI), accused the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) of “destabilising non-BJP democratically elected states”, on Sunday.
Yechury issued a statement earlier today saying, “The Governor’s office was used to install BJP governments even after they have lost the elections, like in Goa, Manipur and Meghalaya. The Governor’s office has been misused in Bihar to allow the BJP to enter the government through the backdoor after losing the assembly elections comprehensively.”
He also stated that continuous efforts by the BJP led governments have been made to destroy the “backbone of the federal content of the Indian Constitution.”
Yechury further asserted that the communists in India were the first victims of unwarranted use of power by the central government. “The communists in India were the first victims of such central authoritarian misuse of constitutional provisions,” he said, “when the democratically elected government in Kerala was undemocratically dismissed in 1957. This has happened with Left-led governments repeatedly in Kerala and West Bengal subsequently.”
He said that such atrocities by central government should not be permitted any further.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and other senior party leaders have been staging a protest at LG Anil Baijal’s office for seven days now.
After the alleged assault on Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash in February 2018, by AAP leaders at Kejriwal’s residence, the IAS officers have reportedly skipped daily meetings with AAP ministers.