New Delhi, June 17 (IANS): CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury on Sunday accused the Modi government of using the Governors office to destabilise the non-BJP state governments as well as to install BJP governments. Yechury's statement came ahead of his joining a protest march to the Prime Minister's residence organised by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday against the alleged high-handedness of the central government and direct interference in Delhi administration. "Utilising the office of the Governors and Lt. Governors, the BJP central government is seeking to destabilise non-BJP democratically elected state governments," Yechury said. He said such efforts were "destroying the already fragile Centre-state relations", which is the backbone of the federal content of the Indian Constitution. He said the Communists in India were the "first victims of such central authoritarian misuse of constitutional provisions" when the elected government in Kerala was "undemocratically" dismissed in 1959. "This has happened with Left-led governments repeatedly in Kerala and West Bengal subsequently," he said.
