THE Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) condemned yesterday’s salute by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to fellow Hindu chauvinists who had murdered one of its activists.
Mr Modi applauded volunteers of the paramilitary Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the parent organisation of his ruling BJP party, on the Hindu festival of Vijayadashami.
He tweeted his comments ahead of a visit to Uttar Pradesh state capital Lucknow, which BJP members had plastered with posters celebrating last week’s army raid into Pakistan in pursuit of Kashmiri separatist guerillas.
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