‘Protecting what JNU stands for will be true tribute to Yechury’: CPIM Prakash Karat

“Sitaram, as the General Secretary of our party, the CPI(M), has, in the last one decade, been a relentless fighter for democracy, secularism and federalism, and was playing a key role, important role, in gathering all the secular democratic forces to see that the widest and broadest resistance is put up to this Hindutva, authoritarian, communal regime,” Karat said.

“And I think, therefore, what began in JNU for Sitaram was in fact a continuity,” he added.

“Fifty years later, the Marxism he learnt in JNU, the skills he learnt as a political activist in JNU, that was put to very good use by him when he emerged as an important national political leader,” he said.

Karat further said: “When we took Sitaram on his last journey, we also took him to JNU on the 13th of September… I had mixed feelings when the students and teachers of JNU were paying homage to him.”

“On the one hand, I was filled with happiness and admiration because that fighting spirit in JNU, I saw, still continues,” he said.