[Marxistindia] On Assembly Election Results

[news from the cpi(m)]

October 9, 2024

Press Statement

 

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the
following statement:

 

On Assembly Election Results

 

The contrasting results thrown up by Jammu & Kashmir and Haryana state
elections, the resounding success in Jammu & Kashmir and the unexpected
setback in the latter provide valuable lessons for secular forces in the
struggle against BJP in the days to come.

 

In Jammu & Kashmir, the National Conference and its allies won a comfortable
majority to form the first elected government after six years of Central
government's authoritarian rule.  The unambiguous mandate of the people in
Jammu & Kashmir is a rebuff to the machinations of the BJP Central
government to scuttle the democratic aspirations of the people through
abrogation of Article 370, abolition of statehood through bifurcation of the
state into two Union Territories and the manipulative delimitation of the
constituencies.

 

In Haryana, the BJP managed to secure a majority of seats in a close fight
with the Congress, but with a narrow margin of 0.6 per cent vote share over
Congress. Its success is marked by micro-caste mobilization and insidious
communal propaganda.  The Congress will have to introspect as to the other
factors responsible for this verdict.

 

The CPI(M) congratulates the people of Kulgam constituency in Jammu &
Kashmir for electing Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami for the fifth time.

 

 

 

(Muralidharan)

For CPI(M) Central Committee office

 

 

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