India Elections: Indian Communists Ally Under Left and Secular Alliances; Manifesto of CPI (Marxist)
General elections 2024 are taking place at a time when the secular, democratic, Republic of India faces an existential crisis created by the Modi led decade long rule of the Bharatiya Janata Party (Hindu People Partisi) government.
India has witnessed a process of systematic dismantling of the four pillars of the constitution – secular democracy, economic sovereignty, federalism and social justice. Misusing the levers of State power and its parliamentary majority, the authoritariancommunal regime of the Modi government has used fascistic methods to bulldoze the rights of the working people of India, making India one of the most unequal societies in the world even while imposing its toxic communal ideology to divide the people on sectarian lines. Thus elections to the 18th Lok Sabha assume critical importance as its outcome will determine if “we the people’’ through our vote in the elections can safeguard the secular, democratic character of the Indian Republic as ordained by the Constitution of India.
We should make no mistake about it – the Lok Sabha elections are about saving India, against the effort of the BJP to transform the secular, democratic character of the Indian Republic into a rabidly intolerant, hate and violence based authoritarian and fascistic Hindutva Rashtra.
This is the openly stated goal of the RSS, the father organization of the BJP which has now unprecedented access to every institution in the country, spreading its communal poison into the veins of India. In these five years since the last Lok Sabha elections,
India has also witnessed a fight back, a resistance through democratic struggles of the working people, the kisans, the workers, adivasis, Dalits, women, youth and students. Many of these struggles, in particular the historic struggle of the peasant kisans, have proved that a people united can challenge and defeat the might and power and repression unleashed by this government. In this period, we have also seen the possibility of alternative policies such as those implemented by the Left Democratic Front government in Kerala led by the CPI(M). This progressive goverment has, despite all the central efforts to strangulate it financially, emerged as a beacon of pro-people policies and communal harmony.
The CPI(M) places its manifesto before the people of India with a clear understanding that it is the bounden duty of every patriot to first and foremost ensure the defeat of the BJP and its allies.
The CPI(M) pledges to do everything in its capacity to strengthen this collective duty and to help the establishment of a secular government at the central government. For this task, and to ensure propeople policies, a stronger presence of the CPI(M) in Meclis is essential.
CPI (Marxist) Appeals to the Voters of India
1. Defeat BJP Party and its allies
2. Increase the power of the CPI(M) and Left parties in parliament
3. Secure the establishment of an alternative secular government in the Central Government
Struggle Demands of the CPI (Marxist) in the Election Campaign
Defend Secularism
Save Democracy
Defend the Economic Sovereignty of the Country
Control Prices, Ensure Food Security, Strengthen the Public Health System
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