Corporates financed campaign to install Modi govt, claims CPI

CPI today claimed corporates "manipulated and financed" the campaign to install the Narendra Modi government and said it apprehended attempts to concentrate all powers in the "hands of an individual" which would subvert the country's democratic polity.
"Massive amounts were spent by the corporates in the entire poll campaign to install a more pro-corporate government. From the beginning, they had made their preference clear. Modi was their obvious choice for his pro-corporate record as a Chief Minister," party General Secretary S Sudhakar Reddy told a press conference here.
"Power has passed on to a combination of corporate, right-wing ideology and rabid communalism. On the basis of the experience of the first three weeks of the (Modi) government, the party apprehend that attempts are on to concentrate all powers in the hands of an individual that may ultimately subvert parliamentary democratic set up," he said.

Briefing on the CPI National Council meeting, he said the new government has "already started paying back the corporates by doling out several concessions including raising the price of extraction of gas from KG-2 Basin to the Reliance."
"It is also heaping new burden on the people by raising rail fare, price of diesel, milk and gas," Reddy said.
Alleging that the corporates had funded the Congress too, he said "regional parties were also liberally financed so that they do not tie-up with the Left (for a non-Congress, non-BJP front). The corporate sector targetted the Left parties to isolate and marginalise them."

"Some regional parties were influenced not to have alliances with the Left," Reddy claimed without elaborating.
He also said that the RSS "took over the command of BJP's campaign directly" and deployed its workers to "inject communal poison" to polarise the electorate.