Secular parties must have common understanding at national level: D Raja

Thats what our state council is discussing, on how to move forward. The TRS has been flagging certain issues, which are genuine and is questioning the BJP and its rule at the Centre, he pointed out.CPI and CPIM had extended support to the ruling TRS in the recent bypoll to Munugode Assembly seat in Telangana.

CPI General Secretary D Raja on Thursday urged all secular and regional parties to come together and unitedly fight against the BJP in 2024 Lok Sabha elections to save democracy and the country.

Raja, who was in Hyderabad to attend the State Council meet of CPI in Telangana, said all these secular and democratic parties must have a common understanding with respect to the need to bring down the BJP-led government at national level.

''This common understanding should be there at national level. The concrete electoral adjustment and electoral strategy, tactics can be worked out at state level taking into consideration the balance of political forces in different states. But, at national level, there should be understanding,'' he told reporters here.

The primary objective should be to defeat BJP and the understanding should percolate to states.

At state level, these political parties must have mutual trust and be accommodative of each other in order to defeat BJP, he said.

The saffron party must be defeated in order to save the Constitution, democracy, and the country, he added.

Asked whether he was hopeful that a common understanding would emerge before the Lok Sabha elections, Raja replied in the affirmative.

The CPI leader, who cited the example of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar breaking alliance with BJP and forming government with RJD and the DMK in Tamil Nadu heading a coalition of parties, seemed to suggest it as a positive sign.

In Telangana, CPI's relations with the ruling TRS and other parties would be based on issues, he said. ''That's what our state council is discussing, on how to move forward.'' The TRS has been flagging certain issues, which are genuine and is questioning the BJP and its rule at the Centre, he pointed out.

CPI and CPI(M) had extended support to the ruling TRS in the recent bypoll to Munugode Assembly seat in Telangana.