BJP used money and muscle power to win Tripura: Yechury

March 03, 2018 22:34

Accepting the Tripura mandate, Communist Party of India-Marxist general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Saturday charged the BJP with using money and muscle power to win the state assembly elections.

The CPM, in a press statement, said the "BJP has, apart from other factors, utilised massive deployment of money and other resources to influence the elections".

"This has happened because the Bharatiya Janata Party has unscrupulously utilised huge amounts of money and muscle power and managed to successfully bring together all anti-Left elements and parties, including the erstwhile opposition parties, into one anti-Left platform. They succeeded as a result," Yechury said.

Yechury warned the people of Tripura that there would be unfavourable ramifications due to misuse of money in elections. "The BJP brought together all kinds of forces using money power and without attaching any morality to it. There will be results, against which the people need to be alert," he added.

In a series of tweets, Yechury said: "We will continue to oppose the BJP and its divisive agenda, not only in Tripura but all over India. It is imperative for those who believe in India's constitutional ideals to defeat the nefarious designs of the BJP-RSS combine. The battle is on."

-- PTI

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