Kerala, Sep 24 (The Hindu) CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat has said that the party will tap its organisational strength and continue to fight the RSS and its communal agenda.

He was addressing a public meeting held here on Tuesday after the inauguration of the CPI(M) district committee office.

“It is a political and ideological fight... This does not mean that we approve of killings and counter-killings. We do not condone them,” he said.

Mr. Karat said that the CPI(M) was the main obstacle in the communal agenda of the RSS and Hindutva forces. “The CPI(M) has paid a big price for this. Many of our activists had been killed in Kannur,” he added.

He said the tax hike indicated that the Oommen Chandy government was out not only to prohibit liquor, but also water.

He stated that the major blow to the BJP in the byelection results in Uttar Pradesh showed the response of the people to the communal designs of the Hindutva forces, seen, for instance, in the campaign against the so-called “love jihad”.

He said that the Modi government had in the past four months pushed its agenda to help corporates and ignored the welfare of the common man.

He said the Left should strengthen itself to fight neoliberal policies, communal forces, and atrocities against women.

CPI(M) State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan said the Oommen Chandy government, with its flawed approach to development, had pushed Kerala 30 years back. “The people of Kerala will fiercely agitate against tax hike by refusing to pay it,” he added.