https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/resisting-far-right-india
Following India’s 2024 general elections, Green Left’s Isaac Nellist spoke with Clifton D’Rozario, a leading member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation (CPIML), about the results. The CPIML, along with other left and democratic parties, ran under a broad democratic electoral front — the INDIA alliance — to challenge Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s far-right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The CPIML ran four candidates as part of the alliance, winning two seats in the state of Bihar. **** "The BJP has come back to power, and there is no doubt about that, but they went from a goal of 400 seats to ending up with just 240 seats. They don’t even have a simple majority to form government on their own. "In a big way, the INDIA alliance, the coming together of opposition parties, played a very crucial role. These parties were very disparate, very different ideologically, but the understanding that democracy and the constitution were at stake was the binding force that brought them together. "This is a respite, a boost to democracy and provides a platform in parliament where there is now a credible opposition with sizable numbers that can hold the government to task. "Of course fascism does not get defeated by the ballot box, none of us are under any misconceptions about this, but the struggles we have waged over the past 10 years, the farmers struggles, the students struggles, the workers struggles, the peasant struggles and the anti-CA [Citizenship Amendment Act] struggles have paved the way to defeat the BJP to this extent." -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#31026): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/31026 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/107064390/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
