The CPI on Saturday appealed to US President Joe Biden to stop providing financial and military aid to Pakistan in view of the attacks on the minorities, especially the Christians and their churches.
It also demanded the United Nations intervene and prevent the situation from worsening.
“We appeal to US President Joe Biden to stop providing financial aid and weapons to Pakistan in view of the attack on the minorities. He should keep in mind the attack on Christians and the destruction of churches while providing help to them. The minorities, including the Christians, are in extreme trouble there,” CPI national secretary Atul Kumar Anjan told reporters in Patna.
Asserting that the Pakistan government has created a communal problem in the garb of blasphemy laws to divert the attention of the people from the economic mess, the Left leader said that the “UN should warn Pakistan and should take care of the minorities there”.
Anjan was here to attend the two-day meeting of the CPI’s Bihar state council. He pointed out that his party was forced to speak on the atrocities on the minorities in Pakistan because the Indian government was quiet on the issue.
However, he avoided a question on whether the CPI would make a similar appeal to the US President and the UN over the ongoing ethnic and communal violence in Manipur.
“We will appeal to the US to ensure that India is made a permanent member of the UN Security Council,” Anjan said.
Criticising the Independence Day speech of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in which he claimed that he would hoist the national flag again at the Red Fort in Delhi on August 15 next year, Anjan said this meant that the country would have to keep suffering from unemployment, inflation, communalism and the destruction of constitutional institutions and democracy.
The CPI leader slammed Union minister of women and child development Smriti Irani for ignoring the travails of women in Manipur.
“The women and child development ministry should be taken away from her. She advocated the disrobing of women in her speech in the Lok Sabha. We want her to show social concern and responsibility instead of indulging in political catwalk and showing a new sari every day,” Anjan said.
On the INDIA bloc, the Left leader stressed that though the CPI was wholeheartedly with it, nobody should ignore its strike capability.
“We have identified 40 to 45 Lok Sabha seats across the country for contesting in the next polls. Our state units will finalise them in September. In the context of Bihar, we will not give a number to the seats we want to contest because we do not want to disrupt the Opposition unity. However, the figure should be an honourable one,” Anjan said.
“The CPI is a big party. It is the mother party of all communist parties in the country. The tag of the national party is meaningless. We are present everywhere. No front can succeed without us,” he added.
Sources in the Grand Alliance in Bihar told this newspaper that the CPI could be given just one Lok Sabha seat — Begusarai — in the state in the 2024 general elections.
