CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury said that communal forces were exploiting the popular discontent among the people to their advantage.Alleging that Congress policies were promoting the growth of communal forces,Yechury said "the need of the hour was a left democratic secular alternative to combat communal threat" .
He said at a meet-the-press programme here,“Supporting the Congress to fight the communal forces is counter-productive because Congress policies are actually promoting the growth of communal forces in the country,” .
He took a dig at Delhi Imam Syed Ahmed Bukhari’s support to Congress, saying the same person had asked Muslims to support the A B Vajpayee-led NDA in 2004 elections and added in a lighter vein, “When he pronounced support for Vajpayee, BJP lost the election and this time Congress may have to be careful….,” .
INDIA HONEST finds truth in CPM leader Yechury allegation that Sonia Gandhi is indulging in communal practises by asking Bukhari to give a call to Muslims to vote for Congress in lieu of certain secret understandings as alleged, while her son Rahul Gandhi did the same by supporting the communal and criminal threat of his party candidate Masood, who asked to cut Modi in pieces, if he enters in UP.