NAGPUR, Nov 16: Unleashing a volley of attack on the economic and foreign policies of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government which subjected the country to widespread criticism, Sitaram Yechuri, Politburo member, Communist Party of India (Marxists) said the fall of the present government is imminent by the year-end.Addressing a press conference at Tilak Patrakar Bhavan here Sunday, Yechuri said the results of the Assembly elections in four states is going to spell doom for the BJP as it would now have to face public wrath owing to its wrong policies. Polarisation would increase in the alliance government as the BJP is bound to face stiff opposition from its alliance partners, he added.Flawed economic policies have led to spiralling prices and shortage of many essential commodities which has caused discomfort to the common man and widespread dissent. This dissent among the the masses is bound to reflect in the Assembly elections, said Yechuri and termed the present economic policies as totally`mindless'.This coupled with pursuance of inept foreign policies has led the country to lose face in the international community. Such is the situation that the country has been subjected to ridicule on a number of occasions, he said.Yechuri reiterated his party's stand on extending only issue-based support from outside to a Congress-led alternative in case the BJP-led government falls. ``If the government falls there would only be two options. One would be to call for holding fresh elections and two, to try and form the government with another combination of parties,''he said. Given the present scenario, no alternate government can be formed without the presence of Congress party.Stating that any support would only be issue-based, he said if the CPM feels the Congress is going against its two main basic policies - safety of democracy and secularism, the CPM would not hesitate to withdraw support, he said. There would be no front or common minimum programme if the CPM supports Congress in governmentformation. Such a coalition did survive in the past so why not again, he felt.Making a blistering attack on the BJP-led government's move to rewrite history books, Yechuri feared that facts could be twisted to present a wrong picture of the past to please the Hindutva brigade. ``The BJP is trying to promote the brahmanical supremacy through various ways. Projecting one stream at the cost of the other, is dangerous and is bound to create social strife in the country,''he warned.Yechuri also flayed the abandonment of the Indian Council of Historical Research which was to give scientific basis to deciphering scripts in the country. This would have pointed out whether the scripts were genuine or not. He pooh-poohed BJP's claim that any document that questions the accepted belief of ancient history would not be acceptable.Cautioning people against BJP's communal agenda, Yechuri said they would have to make a choice between a secular front and one which is outrightly communal. It is quite obviousnow as to how the minorities are being targeted by the Hindutva brigade. The Christian missionaries especially have been brought under constant attack in the recent past, he said.The veteran CPM leader said his party would continue to oppose the Congress in West Bengal despite its promised support at the Centre. Mamata Bannerjee's Trinamool Congress holds no threat to the CPM. In fact according to the party's calculations Mamata is certain to join hands with Sonia Gandhi as their differences were not ideological, but over Mamata's official nomination in the state election, he said.Answering a query over the possibility of merger between the CPI and the CPM, Yechuri said the unifying process is on. There could have been two ways by which this could have been achieved-one by the top leaders joining hands by sinking their differences and achieving unity by assimilation of mass organisations through common struggle. The CPM is following the latter policy because unity achieved through class struggleis true and lasting, he said.
