[Marxistindia] Press Statement

[news from the cpi(m)]

December 5, 2022
Press Release

We are herewith releasing the text of the intervention of Sitaram  
Yechury, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).



(Muralidharan)
For CPI(M) Central Committee office



CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury’s intervention at the meeting  
of leaders of political parties called by the Union Government on  
India assuming G-20 Presidency

This meeting has been called to brief the leaders of political parties  
on India assuming the presidentship of the G20 and the plans the  
government has of holding around 200 meetings at multiple locations.

The G20 presidency is a rotating presidency. Every country in the G20  
will automatically be the President when their turn comes.

The G20 was formed in 1999 following the South Asian economic crisis.  
The G7 was expanded to G20 when the richest countries roped in the  
emerging economies to share the burden of the crisis that inevitably  
follows the neo-liberal economic reforms trajectory.

An initial ministerial level consultation was converted into the heads  
of government summits following the global financial meltdown in 2008.  
Since then, the method of rotational presidency was adopted which has  
little to do with the domestic economy or socio-political situation.

Hon’ble Prime Minister has announced a domestic political campaign  
programme around the theme ‘One Earth-One Family-One Future’ and  
declared that “India’s G20 Presidency will work to promote the  
universal sense of one-ness.”

The concept Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam does not mean imposing a uniformity  
but is the recognition of a global family where social pluralities are  
celebrated by treating all diversities on the basis of equality and  
dignity. Such a global family is premised on such societies  
established domestically in every country.

The credibility of the theme announced by the PM is crucially  
dependent upon creating a society and a political structure which is  
based on equality for all as the Constitution of India declares  
“irrespective of caste, creed or sex”. It is premised on the delivery  
of justice – social, political and economic to all citizens.

The current alarming levels of communal polarization based on vicious  
campaigns of hate, terror and violence destroy the foundations of the  
declaration announced by the PM. Our economic slowdown is plunging  
deeper with alarmingly growing levels of unemployment and poverty.  
Social injustices against women, dalits, adivasis, and marginal  
sections are multiplying. Constitutional guarantees of democratic  
rights and civil liberties are severely circumscribed by treating all  
expressions of dissent as ‘anti-national.’

The realisation of the theme announced by the government will be  
determined by correcting these current alarming trends in social,  
political and economic spheres and strictly adhering to our  
Constitutional foundations of liberty, equality and fraternity that  
define the character for our secular democratic republic.

The government must work towards realizing this objective if the world  
has to recognize these declared objectives of India’s G20 Presidency.

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