Indian politics: Communist leaders
betrayed Left movement!
-DR. ABDUL RUFF
COLACHAL
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By supporting the Congress led UPA
government, the Indian communist leaders have indeed been promoting the
Congress party interests while Congress party itself is promoting the Hindutva
forces for special “national” reasons.
World over, the communist
movement has been dying a slow death as leaders promote
corporate interests and consider the
rich class as their trusted allies because they are
funded by the corporates lords and rich guys.
With the strongest former communist
leader Russian power is now far away from communist concerns and China is
trying to be close ally of an unwilling America, Indian communists
who had always looked to both Moscow and Beijing for guidance and
help are the distressed and disappointed parties and they have no serious
interests left for working class politics.
Promoted by the Congress government and
the Indian communal system established by it, the Hindutva parties led by
BJP became a serious threat to peace and harmony in the
country as they incite violence though their public -hate speeches plus
anti-secular literature.
Leftist movement in India, led by the
CPM, found the emergence of Hindutva communal politics a serious threat not
only to them but also to the nation at large in due course as the BJP allies
are trying to dismantle the secular democratic fabric of India. This
predicament forced the Left forces to support the Congress party at the centre
and kept the minority regime in power for a long time. In exchange for these
gestures, Congress party had offered the Speakership to the CPM.
When the Congress party faced problems
in the parliament, the leftists willingly rescued the Congress government and
it supported the infamous “Profit Bill” in order to save communist Speaker of
Lok Sabha –parliament.
Communists face problems in their
backyards like Kerala, West Bengal where Congress party is their main
opponent. However, the communists lost West Bengal when a strong
Bengali leader Mamata Banerjee emerged the popular leader in the state to
defeat both Congress and communists. Her image as the common people’s pleaders
also did not let the BJP to make its presence felt among Bengalis.
That the continued support of Communist
parties to the Congress party in parliament has made them unpopular in Kerala
and West Bengal and Tripura has now become the topic of heated debate in Left
circles. In the absence of a leader like Mamata can help the communists in the
pools to some extent.
Despite all their efforts to keep BJP
out and Congress in, the BJP and other Hindutva parties have become the most
formidable political outfits of India today.
It is not that communists are unaware
of hidden secret nexus between Congress and Hindutva parties but the communists
preferred to ignore that though indirect promotion of Hindutva parties to
control Muslims in India has made India a seriously wounded fanatic nation.
Maybe, communists had expected huge gains from Congress party but failed and
now found themselves in the crossroads.
Moreover, the CPM and allies refused to
form a third front to take both the congress and BJP on their horns. In fact
they created obstacles in the formation of a credible third front, leaving wide
open the poll scenario to BJP. AAP also has similar weaknesses.
However, true to their credentials, the
CPM refuses to admit its folly of supporting the fast sinking Congress party,
thereby harming their own prospects. Not only that. The Communists
never criticized the corrupt policies of the Congress
government. Some communists blame not their policies or tactics but
the implementation part of them. So funny!
Congress party, in further pursuing the BJP economic policies snot, promotes
corporatist interests and sacrificing the genuine interests of common people.
Obviously, BJP has no concerns for common people, nor is working to remove
corruption as it also opposed the Anna Hazare’s (and Arvind Kejriwal’s)
anti-corruption movement. Price rises and extra taxes the Congress party
introduced are the BJP agenda but the communist parties did not oppose
them.
In fact, over years of passive
approach to problems of common people with full commitment and sincere concern
for them has generated a deformed leftist movement.
And, worse, there are no indications
that the communist leaders will change their petrified mindset in the near
future.
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