[Marxistindia] Left parties call - December 19 - All India Protest against CAB

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Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Communist Party of India
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)-Liberation
All India Forward Bloc
Revolutionary Socialist Party
 
 
December 12, 2019
Press Statement
 
The Left parties - Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of
India, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)-Liberation, All India
Forward Bloc and Revolutionary Socialist Party - have issued the following
statement:
 
December 19 - All India Protest against CAB
 
Both the Houses of Parliament have passed the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill
(CAB).  The Left parties consider this Bill as being completely violative of
the Indian Constitution and  aimed at destroying the secular democratic
foundations of the Indian Republic.
 
The Left parties strongly oppose this Bill that links citizenship with the
religious affiliation of an individual, the very antithesis of secularism.  
 
This Bill aims to further sharpen the communal divide and social
polarization in the country, which is dangerously detrimental to the unity
and integrity of our country.  
 
The passage of this Bill, along with the proclamations by this Modi-Shah BJP
government to extend the National Register of Citizens (NRC) to the entire
country, is the twin combination to change the character of the Indian
Republic - from a secular democratic one into an "Hindutva Rashtra", the RSS
political project.
 
The Left parties call upon all our units all over the country to organize
popular protest actions against the CAB-NRC on December 19, 2019.
 
On this day, December 19, 1927, Ram Prasad Bismil, who rendered the stirring
patriotic call rousing the Indian people in the freedom struggle, Sarfiaoshi
Ki Tamanna was hanged at the Gorakhpur jail.  Ashfaqulla Khan, a co-accused,
was hanged at the Faizabad jail and another co-accused Roshan Singh was
hanged at the Naini jail.  This unity, overriding religious affiliations won
India its freedom from the British.  This, today, is being ruptured by the
RSS-BJP.
 
Sd/-
 
(Sitaram Yechury)                                     
General Secretary, CPI(M)                                   
                                                                   
 
(D. Raja)
General Secretary, CPI
 
 
(Dipankar Bhattacharya)
General Secretary, CPI(ML)-Liberation
 
 
(Debabrata Biswas)                                             
General Secretary, AIFB                                                
 

(Manoj Bhattacharya)
RSP
 
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