Narendra Modi is demonstrating that his role as his party’s election campaigner is more important than his role as Prime Minister, the CPM said on Sunday.

“As we Indians suffer under a raging pandemic, we unfortunately don’t have a union government. What we have is a PR company, with an electoral campaigner, callously and brazenly unleashing pain, misery and devastation over the masses,” CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury said.

“Modi demonstrating his role as a partisan party campaigner is more important than that of India’s Prime Minister. That’s why his priority is the election campaign, if any time is left, he does something perfunctory for TV images & headlines. A sorry state,” Yechury said in a series of tweets.

“India is facing its gravest crisis in decades which a former army chief says is like war. But Modi is busy campaigning, unavailable to state CMs and doing a gimmick of a meeting after he has finished with his superspreader events,” he added.

The Left leader underlined that his party and the Congress have announced they would not hold large rallies in Bengal.