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Harkishan Singh Surjeet was on Sunday re-elected as the general secretary of the Communist Party of India-Marxist.
Surjeet, who was elected on the concluding day of the party's six-day 17th Congress in Hyderabad, dubbed the Bharatiya Janata Party as "enemy number one" of the secular forces in the country.
"Today, the BJP's threat to national unity is the main issue. The people themselves have put a stop to the advances made by the BJP," he said.
Surjeet also flayed the allies of the National Democratic Alliance for "keeping quiet" on the most "disastrous" resolution passed by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh at Bangalore.
"No NDA ally is raising this issue," he said.
The RSS had said that the minorities should earn the goodwill of the majority.
Surjeet ridiculed the stand of Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu that he was supporting the BJP government to keep the Congress away from power. The TDP leader was part of the United Front government, which was formed with the outside support of the Congress in 1996, he said.
"When we forged the United Front, Chandrababu Naidu helped us ward off the threat of the BJP coming to power. We were able to form the government with the Congress support. But today it doesn't mean anything for Naidu," the CPI-M leader said.
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