Hyderabad: CPI leader K. Narayana on Saturday accused the BJP-led Centre of tightening control over key constitutional bodies and said only the judiciary remained committed to upholding democracy in India.
Narayana said the judiciary was “fighting like Abhimanyu” to defend democratic values, while the President, Election Commission, CBI, ED, and governors were operating under the Centre’s command. “Judiciary alone is striving to protect justice. The rest have been captured,” he said.
He criticised the role of nominated governors in undermining elected state governments, particularly those outside BJP’s so-called double engine states. “Governors are attacking non-BJP state governments. Even when courts ask for respect towards elected regimes, the Centre and the President dismiss it,” he said.
He warned that the central constitutional framework faced an internal crisis. “To prevent that collapse, all anti-BJP forces must unite. CPI is in talks on this front,” he said.
Narayana announced that CPI would work toward building a broad anti-BJP front at its national convention in Chandigarh starting September 22.
