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Kashmir – just part of Modi's plan to destroy secular India?
India's secular political system is being dismantled - and the Hindu-nationalist BJP are relying on the support of the international right. Ben Chacko spoke to Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary SITARAM YECHURY about the fascist spiral of 'the world's biggest democracy'
Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram Yechury met Morning Star editor Ben Chacko in the Marx Memorial Library in Clerkenwell, London
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INDIAN politics is casting a shadow over our general election. Overseas Friends of the BJP (the party of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi) have reportedly identified 48 Labour-Tory marginals in which the organisation would campaign for a Conservative vote because of Labour criticism of events in Kashmir.
Just this week, Labour issued a statement clarifying that it would “not take a pro-Indian or pro-Pakistan stance on Kashmir,” in a bid to pacify Indian organisations that had attacked the party over its conference resolution on the crisis in the region. Actually, Labour had not taken a “pro-Indian or pro-Pakistan stance” by expressing concern at the Indian government’s behaviour, but the concession showed that Modi’s supporters in this country pack a punch.
Should that worry us? I spoke to Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram Yechury to find out more about how Modi is changing the face of India.
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