Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 4 (UNI) As the basic tenets of the Constitution are facing increasing assault under the BJP rule, the Left believes that the immediate task on hand is to defend the ‘idea of India’ as a secular-democratic republic that guarantees rights, justice and liberty to all people, CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury said on Saturday.
Mr Yechury was speaking on the topic “How the Left politics shapes India’s democracy” at the Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters (MBIFL) here.
The pillars of democracy and the fundamental ideas enshrined in the Constitution like equality, liberty and fraternity along with social justice is being destroyed systematically by the present regime by consistently building a false consciousness, he told the “Reimagining India’ segment of the four-day festival, which was also attended by Mathrubhumi Managing Director and MBIFL Chairman Shri M V Shreyams Kumar.