BJP behind ‘opportunistic’ AIADMK merger, says CPI(M) leader Karat

The CPI(M) leader said that joining hands with ‘communal forces’ like BJP will be dangerous for the AIADMK and also the people of Tamil Nadu.

CPI(M) politburo member Prakash Karat on Monday termed as “opportunistic” the merger of AIADMK factions and alleged that the BJP was behind it.

CPI(M) leader Prakash Karat termed the merger of AIADMK factions as opportunistic. (Arun Sharma/HT PHOTO)

“The opportunistic decision by the two factions, at the behest of BJP. will be rejected by the people of Tamil Nadu,” he told reporters in Coimbatore.

Karat is in the city to participate in a function to launch a People’s Forum, in which leaders of major political parties, like Rajya Sabha MP, Kanimozhi of DMK and Viduthalai Chiraithagal president, Tirumavalavan and like minded parties following the ideologies of Karl Marx, Ambedkar and Periyar.

The CPI(M) leader said that joining hands with ‘communal forces’ like BJP will be dangerous for the AIADMK and also the people of Tamil Nadu, “who will totally reject this opportunism.”