Terming Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent interview to Asian News International as a “set-up” CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury said here on Thursday that Modi did not even once refer to the promises that he and the BJP made to the people in 2014, and did not answer why even a single one has not been delivered so far.

“This is a post-truth propaganda exercise. In the process there was a large amount of disinformation that has been doled out,” said Yechury.

He added that the most callous and inhuman of responses of the PM was to call a one-time farm loan waiver as a ‘lollipop’. “This demand for a loan waiver had arisen as a result of widespread struggles of the peasantry, who are groaning under crushing debt burdens,” Yechury said in an article in his party’s mouthpiece People’s Democracy.

Yechury said it is increasingly becoming clear that the people are looking for a change and want this government out at any cost.

“It is this pressure from below that is forcing all secular parties in the country to come forward and work for the defeat of this government and the BJP in the forthcoming elections. This is primarily due to the growing discontent against the policies of this government and the massive surge in people’s struggles witnessed in the recent past,” he said.

The CPI(M) General Secretary said the industrial strike on January 8 and 9 will once again show the unity of the working people in India. “The call given by the kisan and agricultural labour organisations of a "Gramin Bharat Bandh" on these very days demonstrates the determination of the people for ousting this Modi government and to bring about a shift in policies that are pro-people. The Indian people do not want a neta (leader), they want niti (policies),” he added.

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