Mangaluru: “BJP government is dividing the people – especially the working class in the name of Hindutva, thereby enjoying majority to adopt reforms that help the corporate entities and foreign investors”, said Polit Bureau member Sitaram Yechury of Communist Party of India (Marxist).

Inaugurating the 4th conference of the Bank Employees’ Federation of India – Karnataka on Saturday November 16, Yechury said his party would raise the issue in Parliament, while workers should create awareness about it as reforms and Hindutva – that has been used as a tool in India under (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi”.

Yechury, who is a Rajya Sabha member, said that religion has been imposed on the people of our country that accommodates second largest population of Muslims in the world. Consequently fundamentalism was growing among both Muslims and Hindus, one fuelling the other and dividing people, causing disharmony in the society, he alleged.

Terming the BJP government pro-rich, he said the union government had sought to waive Rs. 68,000-crore debt of corporate entities, portraying their association. Yechury also said that the government was harping on Swachh Bharat only to divert people’s attention from its failure to bring back black money.

K. Srinivas Babu, president of BEFI-Karnataka and B.J. Bhandary, chairman of reception committee were present.