Kolkata, Nov 25 (PTI) West Bengal’s Marxists who are looking to regain a foothold in the state, which once used to be called the ‘Red Fort’, will focus on RSS as “the main enemy”, though electorally the CPI(M) will fight both BJP and TMC.
Md Salim, CPI(M)’s West Bengal state secretary and former Lok Sabha MP, in a free-wheeling interview to PTI, said that to revive his party’s fortunes in the state which it ruled for 34 long years before losing out to the TMC, he was grooming a cadre of “presentable, ideologically-educated” younger leaders.
“We have identified the RSS as the biggest danger to the country as we believe it is against the tenets which our country stands for – secularism and democracy. It has promoted an atmosphere of hate, espousing a dangerous cocktail of pseudo-science and mythology. This is what we are fighting,” he said.
