Thiruvananthapuram: For the first time, CPM joined the country’s celebration by lifting the tricolor flag in front of the party office on the 75th Independence Day on Sunday.
The CPM Central Committee that met in New Delhi earlier this month asked for the rank of party and submitted to celebrate independence day as part of an effort to fight BJP Ultra-Nationalist politics.
CPM said that independence day must be celebrated in such a way that it would help expose ‘hollowness’ in the claim of right-wing troops, especially RSS and BJP.
CPM independence day celebrations did not pass without inviting criticism from their political rivals.
KPCC President K Sudhakan said he was happy to record changes in the CPM mindset.
“The party who used to call August 15 like Apathu 15 (danger 15) has now begun to lift a national flag.
I am happy that CPM finally recognizes the heritage of the congress.
CPM is an organization that rejects Gandhiji.
They must show the courage to accept their mistakes in the past,” Sudhakanan said.
CPM State Secretary CPM A Vijayaraghavan, who lifted the flag close to the Red Party flag in front of the AKG Center here said Sudhakaran’s criticism of CPM crashed into his ignorance of Indian independence struggle and the role played by the Communist movement in it.
According to Vijayaraghavan, the country must think hard about whether the dream of freedom fighters has become a reality or not.
State president BJP K surendran escaped from insult by a mustache when he pulled the end of the rope wrong while lifting the flag in front of the BJP State Committee office here.
When the flag began to move up on a reverse position, he watched the mistake and fix it.
Meanwhile, the Museum police registered a case against K surendran in complaints by local CPM leaders that he did not show respect for the flag by not lifting it in the right way.
CPM and CPI have also been attacked when they waved the national flag next to the party flag.
The Youth Congress filed a complaint of the police where they said CPM and CPI violated the Indian protocol flag code by lifting a national flag near the party flag above the national flag.
Chief of Pinarayi Vijayan’s Minister in order to day independence which was distributed on social media said it was time to ‘reclaim’ nationalism from communal fascist and divisive forces.
He said that the celebration of independence day must be luxurious with thinking about socialist, secular and democratic values which were immortalized in the Indian constitution.
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