Yechury takes dig at Mamata: State rivalries shouldn’t come in way of defending democracy

“The defence of India’s secular democracy in the face of sinister attacks by RSS/BJP is the task of every patriot. No differences or rivalries at local & state levels should come in the way to defend our Constitution. We, in Kerala have shown how this struggle should be conducted,” Yechury tweeted late last night.

Yechury also slammed the Bengal government for preventing the passage of an anti-CAA resolution in the assembly.

“It is strange that the West Bengal government has rejected a Resolution, suggested by Left parties and Congress in the Business Advisory Committee, against the CAA/NRC/NPR this morning,” he said.

Earlier, Banerjee said in the House that since the Assembly had adopted a resolution against a pan-India NRC in September last year, which also denounced according Indian citizenship to people on the basis of religion, there was no need for a fresh resolution.