Left Parties Seek Shah’s Resignation on Ambedkar Row
Deccan ChronicleNEW DELHI: The leaders of the Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India Liberation, Revolutionary Socialist Party and All India Forward Bloc on Monday demanded resignation of Union home minister Amit Shah over his remarks on B.R. In a statement, issued after a meeting of coordinator of the CPI politburo Prakash Karat, CPI general secretary D. Raja, CPI Liberation general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya, RSP general secretary Manoj Bhattacharya and AIFB general secretary G. Devarajan, the Left leaders also opposed “one nation, one election”, and said they would conduct a nationwide campaign against it. The parties also decided to step-up Left intervention on political and people’s issues. The Left parties also demanded the withdrawal of the amendment to the “conduct of election rules”, whereby the right of public inspection of electronic documents such as CCTV camera and video footage is annulled.