Sitaram Yechury draws parallel with Hitler’s nationalism

Sitaram Yechury and D Raja at Parliament. (Express Photo by Ravi Kanojia)

CPM leader Sitaram Yechury has drawn a parallel between the government’s brand of nationalism and Adolf Hitler’s, while the CPI’s D Raja has said the government “wants to make every argumentative Indian a seditious Indian”.

“Regarding this rising intolerance and the use of nationalism, I must say, I am very deeply concerned that it is chillingly reminiscent of how Hitler used nationalism in order to establish fascism in Europe in the 1930s,” Yechury said Tuesday during the debate on the motion of thanks to the President’s address.

“I am drawing that sort of a parallel. It is not alarmist any more. It is actually happening in our country that either you are with us — like George Bush once said very famously or infamously, that either you are with us or you are with them… And who are ‘them’? ‘Them’ means anti-national, not patriotic,” he said. “… Whether it is Hyderabad Central University, whether it is JNU, whether what is happening in Allahabad University today, all this fit into that jigsaw puzzle of the larger objective of metamorphosing the character of our republic,” he said.