The CPI(M) Wednesday lauded the DMK for forming a successful alliance for the Lok Sabha polls in Tamil Nadu but lamented such an understanding did not develop among the secular democratic forces in many other states.
The party would spearhead the fight against the challenges posed by the BJP rule in the coming days, CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury said.
"I would like to congratulate the DMK and M K Stalin (DMK president), not only for the victory, but also for the efforts made to bring together all secular democratic forces into a common understanding and contest the elections," he said.
Such an understanding, unfortunately, did not develop in many other states, Yechury added.
While the BJP alone won a whopping 303 seats across the country in the recently concluded Lok Sabha election, the party was decimated in Tamil Nadu.
The DMK-led alliance, which included the Congress, CPI, CPI(M), won 37 of the 38 seats that went to the polls.
Sharing his assessment on the poll outcome, Yechury said successful shifting of electoral narrative from livelihood issues to Hindutva nationalism, communal polarisation, larger-than-life persona of Prime
Minister Narendra Modi backed by staggering amount of money contributed to the BJP's success.
