{"id":183871,"date":"2025-09-19T11:11:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T06:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=183871"},"modified":"2025-09-19T11:11:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T06:11:50","slug":"cpi-m-warns-of-democratic-backslide-in-iiojk-harassment-of-bengali-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/09\/19\/cpi-m-warns-of-democratic-backslide-in-iiojk-harassment-of-bengali-muslims.html","title":{"rendered":"CPI-M warns of democratic backslide in IIOJK, harassment of Bengali Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"New Delhi: The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) has sounded an alarm over what it calls a \u201cdeepening assault\u201d on democracy and secularism under the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Indian government.<\/p>\n

In this regard, it cited repression in Jammu and Kashmir, targeted harassment of Bengali-speaking Muslims, and a broader erosion of citizens\u2019 rights across the country. The party also condemned RSS chief\u2019s attempts to incite communal passions in the country.<\/p>\n

Issuing a detailed statement after its Central Committee met in New Delhi from September 13\u201315, the CPI-M accused the government of combining authoritarian governance, communal polarisation, and pro-corporate economic policies in ways that are \u201ctearing at the fabric of the republic.\u201d<\/p>\n

The party said the occupied Jammu and Kashmir remained a vivid example of the shrinking democratic space. According to the communique, the Lieutenant Governor\u2019s administration has been \u201csystematically undermining\u201d the functioning of the elected state government, putting hurdles to discharge of its mandate.<\/p>\n

Since the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019, Jammu and Kashmir has been directly ruled from New Delhi, with elected representatives sidelined and civic freedoms curtailed, the party said.<\/p>\n

The communique expressed alarm over \u201ctargeted attacks on Bengali-speaking people, particularly Bengali Muslims,\u201d in the wake of \u201cOperation Sindoor\u201d launched against Pakistan following the Pahalgam attack.
\nThe CPI-M said that police and local administrations in several BJP-governed states were branding Bengalis as \u201cBangladeshis\u201d without due verification of their documents.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany are being detained, tortured, or even forcibly pushed back across the border, including Indian citizens,\u201d it said, calling the drive \u201ca direct outcome of the Indian government\u2019s xenophobic politics.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Delhi: The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) has sounded an alarm over what it calls a \u201cdeepening assault\u201d on democracy and secularism under the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Indian government. In this regard, it cited repression in Jammu and Kashmir, targeted harassment of Bengali-speaking Muslims, and a broader erosion of citizens\u2019 rights across the country. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":183873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/09\/aaa-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183874,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183871\/revisions\/183874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}