Sangh Parivar Goons Attack CPI(M) Headquarters In Delhi

By Countercurrents.org

14 February, 2016
Countercurrents.org

Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPI(M) headquarters in Delhi was attacked allegedly by Sangh Parivar goons. The CPI(M) said the attackers were RSS-BJP workers who also hurled stones. CPI(M) General Sitaram Yechury said “they tried to write slogans like Pakistan Zindabad at our office board. They were pursued by our comrades and one of them was caught and handed over to the police.” The youths also threw stones and shouted slogans like ‘CPI(M) Desh Chhodo’ (CPI-M quit the country).

“We condemn this attack. The RSS which venerates the assassins of Mahatma Gandhi, is now branding the most secular democratic force, the CPI(M), as anti-national. “We do not need certificates of patriotism from the murderers of Gandhi. We will meet this challenge politically,” he said. “The RSS is doing this to divert attention from the complete mess they have brought to the country in terms of economic and social conditions. They want to divert the attention of the people by whipping communal polarisation,” Yechury said.

Sitaram Yechury also said "The murderers of Gandhi are trying to brand secularists as traitors. The CPI(M) does not want any certificate from Gandhi murderers, Democracy is being murdered in this nation. Those who are ruling us are not ready for any kind of debate. We expect more such attacks from them. Their ideology is to attack and eliminate those who disagree with them"

According to DCP (New Delhi) Jatin Narwal “Three youths came to the office of CPI(M) where they sprayed black ink on the wall of the office building. While, two of them managed to flee, one was held by CPI(M) workers and handed over to police”

“The youth, identified as Sushant Khosla, told police that he is a member of the Aam Aadmi Sena. We have initiated legal action in connection with the matter and investigation has been taken up,” he added.

CPI National Secretary D Raja strongly condemned the attack on the CPI(M) office and said “the Sangh Parivar cannot subvert our democratic political system and the constitutional arrangement of our polity.” “If they have anything to argue, they can argue but they should not resort to such cowardly and uncivilised attacks,” Raja said.

The attack came in the backdrop of the raging row over an event at the JNU campus against the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. Kanhaiya Kumar, president of Jawaharlal Nehru University's students union (JNUSU) was arrested in a case of sedition and criminal conspiracy in relation to the event. He is remanded to three-day police custody. Students and faculty of JNU are agitating against Kanhaiya Kumar's arrest. Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, CPI(M) General Sitaram Yechury, CPI National Secretary D Raja and several others had visited the JNU campus yesterday and expressed solidarity to the agitating students.