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‘Jingoistic’ Hindutva threat to secular fabric: Sitaram Yechury

  • CPM leader Sitaram Yechury harped on ‘inquilab zindabad’ as the time-tested slogan to counter Hindutva aimed at turning secular India into a Hindu Rashtra.
     
  • Yechury was speaking at the Netaji Indoor Stadium to mark centenary celebrations of the Communist Party of India, founded at Tashkent on October 17, 1920.
     
  • He said the details of communist contributions, right from its foundation, will be documented throughout the year-long centenary observations.

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  • The CPM leader pointed out that RSS leader VD Savarkar had floated the two-nation theory two years before MA Jinnah gave the slogan.
     
  • Yechury argued that a “corporate communal alliance” is at work propagating the ideology of aggrandizing communal “jingoistic nationalism”.

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