Jai HO BABA TARAKNATH! Matua Mamata on Hindutva Pilgrimage Walks on Foot as Kabir Suman Revolts. Why Do I hate these politicians!
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"We want development, not terror," said Mamata.
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Mamata-thon, at 3kmph
- Trinamul carnival in CPM citadel
CHANDRIMA S. BHATTACHARYA
Nov. 15: She walks 45 minutes a day on the treadmill and avoids heavy meals and oily food. She has lots of muri instead, washed down with cups of tea with a little sugar and milk — not to mention her capacity for fasting.
Mamata Banerjee takes good care of her health. And she did her lipid profile no harm today when she walked nearly 7km of rural roads in about two hours and 20 minutes, doing a creditable 3kmph despite being stopped by crowds throughout the journey.
Her march from Nandakuthi in Hooghly district to Tarakeswar — along the same route that pilgrims take to the famous Shiva temple in Shravan — came on the hottest November afternoon in recent memory when the minimum temperature was 8 degrees above normal.
Years ago, shortly after ascending the hot seat, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee had played the “people-friendly” chief minister by hopping onto a cycle van to visit Usti, a South 24-Parganas village racked by serial robberies. Today, it was Mamata’s turn to show off her common touch — and prove she was fit enough to storm another CPM citadel with lakhs behind her.
After inaugurating the Nalikul-Tarakeswar double line, the railway minister arrived at Nandakuthi just before 4pm to start her padayatra against the CPM’s “reign of terror”. It turned into a carnival.
At Nandakuthi, nothing could be seen along the road towards Tarakeswar except people lining its two sides, leaving just enough space for Mamata to pass. Drumbeats announced the start of her walk. Banners hung along the road and from trees. From the trees also hung numerous men and boys.
As Mamata passed by, crowds kept joining the procession which, by the time it reached Tarakeswar, would itself have been about 1km long.
Mamata was at its very heart. The frenzied crowds surged towards her from all sides, but her guards formed a tight ring. The Trinamul chief walked within that small circle, moving this way and that along the Z-grade security men’s chain of hands.
She made the first 5km in 65 minutes — at a brisk 4.6kmph — but was later slowed down by the crowds. The more she told them not to, the more they tried to run towards her, the women sometimes blowing conches.
Yet few could see her. She mostly stayed hidden behind the guards and the immediate crowd around her. She had a microphone but, for once, could not be heard over the din.
What Mamata could not say, the crowds did. They threatened to skin local CPM leader Anil Basu, Biman Bose and Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee.
“Anil Basu/Biman/Buddhadeb-er chamra, khule nebo amra,” they shouted. Another slogan went: “Aye CPM dekhe jaa, Mamatar khamata (CPM, see Mamata’s power).”
Aptly, Mamata’s march coincided with her party snatching two agricultural co-operatives from the CPM in its bastion of Hooghly after 20 years. Trinamul bagged all four seats in Arambagh and all six at Dhaniakhali.
Perhaps it was the Singur effect — the abandoned Nano site is about 10km from Nandakuthi. The areas through which she marched, though, are represented by a Marxist MP and two Left MLAs.
“There will be lots of bloodshed,” said a Trinamul supporter, who was dancing. “We want blood now.”
In the crowd was Ruma Dhara, a young woman from a village about 25km from Nandakuthi, who said she was a “designer”. In her Madhyamik, Ruma secured a first division in aggregate but a “back” in maths. She paints saris with fabric paint, and charges around Rs 150 for each. Why was she walking with Mamata? Because she had heard Didi would give jobs to anyone who is a “Class VIII pass”.
It grew dark as the procession neared Loknath. Mamata lit a torch and carried on. As Tarakeswar approached, people kept joining her in greater numbers till it all began to look a little like a pilgrimage.
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Issue : VOL 44 No. 46 November 14 - November 20, 2009
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Under the Shadow of the Gun
Victimised Twice Over
From 50 Years Ago (14 November 2009)
COMMENTARY
A One in a Century Rights Activist
K G Kannabiran
Quintessential Intellectual-Activist
P A Sebastian , Bernard DMello
Towards the First (Royal) International?
G P Deshpande
Maoists in West Bengal: Terror and Political Degeneration
Debasish Chakraborty
Trojan Horses: Counter-terror Laws and Security in India
N Manoharan
Reshaping Urban Green Spaces
M Soubadra Devy , Savitha Swamy , Aravind N A
BOOK REVIEWS
Exploring the ‘Many Other’ Keynes
Arvind Subramanian
Reprise of the Canons of Development Economics
Deena Khatkhate
PERSPECTIVES
Sovereign State and Mobile Subjects: Politics of the UIDAI
Anant Maringanti
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Is India Becoming More Innovative since 1991? Some Disquieting Features
Sunil Mani
Rethinking India’s Coal-Power Technology Trajectory
Ananth P Chikkatur , Ambuj D Sagar
Does Not India Need a Default Option in the New Pension System?
H Sadhak
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Spillovers in Indian Manufacturing Industry
G Chidambaran Iyer
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Critiquing the Programme of Action of the Maoists
Sumanta Banerjee
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Macroeconomic Indicators (14 November 2009)
EPW Research Foundation
Trends in Corporate Finances – Finances of Non-Government Non-Financial Private Limited Companies
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Secondary Market Transactions in Government Securities and the Forex Market – October 2009
Clearing Corporation of India Limited
Decline in Trade Volumes
Clearing Corporation of India Limited
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A Unique Personality
N Krishnaji
Protecting State Universities
Sanjay Mishra
Maoists in West Bengal: Terror and Political Degeneration
Debasish Chakraborty
There is a clear alliance between the party of right reaction in West Bengal, the Trinamool Congress, and the Maoists as they try out a cynical strategy of violence to defeat the state’s Left Front government. By attacking the most organised and strong contingent of the anti-imperialist and left forces in the country, the Maoists are playing the role of being agents of the ruling classes. It is unfortunate that sections of the country’s progressive polity and intellectuals have ended up supporting such dangerous politics. View Full Article
DISCUSSION
Critiquing the Programme of Action of the Maoists
Sumanta Banerjee
A response to the Communist Party of India (Maoist) comment (19 September 2009) on Sumanta Banerjee’s earlier article (2 May 2009), raising larger questions on the CPI(Maoist) strategies and tactics. View Full Article
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Jai HO BABA TARAKNATH!
Kabir Suman has right to air his view: Mamata Banerjee
Matua Mamata on Hindutva Pilgrimage Walks on Foot as Kabir Suman Revolts. Kabir Suman, the Trinamul Congress MP from Jadavpur, today launched an attack on his party, saying he felt “suffocated” in the organisation. ...On the other hand, Buoyed by the victory in successive elections, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today said her party is ready to face the assembly polls in West Bengal if it took place "right now".
Asked if her party was prepared to contest the elections, she quipped: "Trinamool Congress is ready to face the assembly polls if it takes place right now."
Banerjee's comments at the party headquarters came shortly after the CPI(M) rejected demands for advancing the elections slated for 2011.
Pointing out that her party recorded victory in last Lok Sabha elections and the by-elections, she said "to contest election, we don't require application of Article 356 in this state.
Matua Mamta traced the same route which is used by Hindu devotees to worship Baba Taraknath, a reincarnation of Lord Shiva.The devotees also walk on Foot. Mamata Matua has already taken an OATH to worship only HARICHAND Thakur and gained in SC Vote Bank consisting of Matua population. Matua religion was against Brahaminical and vedic system which had been the epicentre of Peasant Uprising in Colonial India since Indigo Revolt, it came into limelight with Chandal Movement resultant in Untouchability Movement and Dalit Renaissance in Indian Subcontinent. Guruchand Thakur empowered the Black untouchables and Organised them which led the election of DR BR Ambedkar from Bengal for the Constitution drafting.Brahmin Bania Raj Established and the SC communities which stood strongly behind Baba Saheb were DELIBRATELY Victimised as the Bengali Brahmisn in alliance with Gandhi and Nehru Partitioned India and Bengal.No less than FOUR Crores of Matua Dalits have been thrown out of Bengal and had been scattered from Andaman and Nicobar to the Himalayas. PR Thakur, grand son of Guru Chand Thakur did nothing to save the Matua Followers and was rewarded as he was Co Opted in the Ruling hegemony with the status of Minister and MP. The Betrayal tradition continues as the Matua Headquarter is better know to strike bargains for Matua Vote bank and changing Wings. Now, they support Mamata Banerjee who has turned Matua to get the Matua Vote bank. But she remains a Brahman as well as Hindu. Baba Taraknath has also a long line of followers SC and OBC as well as Caste Hindu!
Kabir Suman represents the Bengali Brahaminical intelligentsia which changed wings under the cover of Singur and Nandigram Insurrections. The Bengali Intelligentsia and civil Society had been hitherto tagged with the Marxists had been using every Luxury of the Ruling Marxist Hegemony. Now as Mamata Banerjee is on the verge of Capture the Writers, the Intelligentsia, Media and Intelligentsia showed the unprecedented Turnaround. Mamata in return Obliged many of them. Thus,Kabir Suman, a popular POP Icon landed in the Parliament.Now, Kabir Suman realises that there is no difference in between the Marxists and the Flag bearers of the much waited change. He Opines that EVERY ON is DAL DAL DAS! Every one is Party Slave!He alleges that Mamata is not interested in the issues he raises often and asks often about the timing when he would be able to teach her GUITAR!
Why Do I hate these politicians!
I never believed in Practical politics as I have been closely watching the Politician sice my Infant days. I saw at least two central ministers KC Pant and ND Tiwari very close to my father.ND Tiwari was the man who had been THREE times UP Chief Minister and he also became the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand. I also knew Ram Dutt Joshi and Pratap Bhaiya, the two most reputed Socialist leaders. I was very close to Rajmangal Pandey . another cabinet minister in the centre. My Father had very regular interactions with the Presidents including DR. Rajendar Prasad, all the Prime Minister including Jawahar Lal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Charan Singh,Chandrashekhar and Atal Bihari Vajpai, all the chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh, including Gobind Ballabh Pant, Dr. Sampurnanand, CB Gupta and Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna. He would get the latest copies of the books which enlisted the Loksabha and Rajya Sabha members. he had relations with all Political leaders. He would write to all the Bengali leaders who never responded. I was disillusioned while I visited New Delhi to help my father who travelled countrywide and submitted a report to Mrs Gandhi. It was in 1974, while I was an intermediate student in GIC Nainital.Since I used to draft all the Correspondence and had to read everything , I knew the Plight of the Refugees and under classes and had seen how DETACHED are the Politicians. In New Delhi as a first Timer, I witnessed the Power Game Naked while shuttling among different Ministries.
We opposed the EMERGENCY as I was a Student Leader in Seventies. I was underage and could not jump in the fray. As I was affliated to SFI during my Graduation, we supported Janata Party. I was elevetaed as a district leader and had been in charge of the electioneering of Mrs Indira Hridayesh who was very close to then central Minister Hem Bati Nandan Bahuguna.I saw the Infight for small gains and witnessed the betrayals. Our People were being used as Mobile Vote Bank, nothing less.
As a Professional Journalist, I had to watch Closely the Political mafia war in the Coal fields in Bengal and Bihar. I was also involved in Jharkhand movement and had been very close to Shibu Soren, Binod Bihari Mahto and Comrade AK Roy. I knew Lalu Prasad Yadav as an emerging leaders and had good relations with Bihar Minsters as a journalist. In Bengal also I had very good relations with the Marxist ministers and leaders. I knew the Maoists also. I had known Vinod Mishra and nag Bhushan patnaik. interacted with NAMBUdariad.In Uttarakhand Assembly, half of the MLAs have been my friends.
I had often been pressurised to fight Loksabha or Assmbly elections in Nainital as Bengali SC refugees have more than Three lac Votes there. More over, I could get the Votes of the Sikh Refugees and the Kumuni Hill people. I had to resist this very determinedly as I always HATED the Anti People Corporate LPG MNC slave politicians.
I never know , how the Bengali Intelligentsia and civil society seek salvation in the Infights and Vote bank Equations of the Ruling hegemony! It wonders me very well why Kabir Suman was so much so IGNORANT!
Meanwhile, Trinamool Congress Chief Mamata Banerjee today sought to play down the controversy created by party MP Kabir Suman's statement charging his own party with corruption, saying it was a "small affair".
"He is an artist and we want to accord him the status of an artist. He is our guest. He has not worked for the party before. We have welcomed Kabir Suman as a candidate of leftist ideology and civic society," Banerjee told reporters here.
The popular singer-turned politician had yesterday said he was feeling "suffocated" in the party which he accused of indulging in corruption and not allowing him to work for the poor people of his constituency -- South 24-Parganas district.
Equating the Trinamool Congress with the CPI(M), Suman even dared the party leadership to remove him from the party for his utterances.
Trinamool Congress MP Kabir Suman created a flutter on Sunday by launching a tirade against all mainstream political parties. Addressing a gathering at Press Club, he rued that he was not allowed to work for his constituency.
“Don’t call me an MP. I will be very happy if my MP tag is removed,” the singer said during the launch of a Bengali daily, Adivasi Sangbad.
Calling upon common people to stand by tribals, Suman said: “A well-planned war has been unleashed by the ‘civilized’ people to grab the minerals of our country.”
Party work has turned him into a slave, the MP said. “I was not a member of any political party. The wave of a mass movement has brought me here. I became a Trinamool member two hours after my name was announced as the Lok Sabha poll candidate,” he said. “I won the votes, but have not handed over my victory to anybody on a silver platter.”
All the mainstream parties focus only on their political interest and nothing else... There is little difference between CPM and the other parties, he said. “Ask those whom we defeated what they have done for people, what they have done in the panchayats. Harass them with pointed queries.”
“It doesn’t matter who is in power... Has there been any change in the mindset? Only power equations have changed but the real change never came,” added the MP.
On the other hand, Communist Party of India (Marxist) has blamed the State's main opposition Trinamool Congress (TMC) party of supporting the Maoist rebels.
Biman Bose, State Secretary of Communist Party of India (Marxist) for West Bengal,
Biman Bose on Sunday said that Mamta Banjerjees Trinamool Congress (TMC) party activists hobnobbed with the Maoists.
"Trinamool party has been saying that Marxists are the same as Maoists. Has any Marxist participated in a meeting of the Maoists with Chhattradhar Mahato in Lalgarh' No Marxist went for the meeting, it was in fact the Trinamoolparty that participated in the meeting and that too more than once," Biman Bose told a news conference in state capital Kolkata.
However, speaking on the recent debacle in the assembly by-elections, Biman Bose ruled out early polls in the state.
"Elections are scheduled for 2011, the mandate is till 2011 and we have not discussed anything on advancing the elections neither in theparty not in the state unit," Bose said.
CPI (M)-led Left parties lost key seats in elections held in two of their heartland states this month, weakening them further and paving the way for the ruling Congress government to speed up reforms.
West Bengal, which has been ruled by the communists since 1977, is going to the polls in 2011 to elect a new 294-member assembly and could well lose the elections, experts say.
Meanwhile, Jobs for landloser families and no forcible land acquisition for railway projects these were part of the bouquet of promises that Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee offered at Nalikul in Hooghly on Sunday.
Mamata, who laid the foundation stone of the double line project between Nalikul and Tarakeshwar, said, "There are some who say they would not give land to us. What they do not realise is that we do not require large plots but only narrow strips for rail tracks. We shall have projects only where people are ready to hand over land to us and shall also provide jobs to those whose lands are acquired."
The 17.18 km stretch will be part of the Tarakeshwar-Bishnupur line that will create an alternative route to Purulia and Bankura and also lead to development of backward areas. "I sanctioned the Tarakeshwar-Bishnupur stretch eight years ago but there has been no progress. By 2010, I want the stretches between Bishnupur and Gokulnagar as well as Tarakeshwar and Talpur to be completed. If necessary, officials may seek external help."
Speaking on land acquisition, Mamata indicated that the railways may not require any land for the dedicated eastern freight corridor from Ludhiana to Dankuni. According to her, Sam Pitroda, who heads one of the railway committees, has knowhow to upgrade the signalling system to run freight trains along existing tracks. "If it is successful we won't have to acquire more land. A number of projects will come up on railway land in Bengal. We have plans for a metro coach factory at Noapara and manufacturing units at Majerhat and Kanchrapara. There will be a number of projects at Dankuni. Soon, people of this area will not have to look for jobs elsewhere."
Mamata said that family members of railwaymen and passengers killed in accidents will get jobs. So will those who prevent accidents. Railwaymen who help prevent sabotage or point out negligence will also be rewarded with promotions and cash awards.
Later, Mamata took part in a rally from Nalikul to Tarakeshwar against political violence. She walked for over seven kilometres asking the CPM to allow peaceful polls in 2011.
Mamata’s phone being ‘tapped’
Trinamool MLA and Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly Partho Chatterjee on Saturday raised the issue of his party chief and Union Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee’s phone allegedly being tapped.
At Banerjee’s Kalighat residence, Chatterjee said party MP and Union Minister of State for Shipping Mukul Roy has already written a letter to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on the issue.
“It was in October that we wrote a letter to the home secretary about our leader’s phone being tapped. Now, we are writing a letter to the Union Home Minister. This cannot go on. Every day, they are tapping her phone and recording her conversations,” said Chatterjee.
Holding the state government responsible for the infringing upon Banerjee’s rights, Chatterjee said Joint Commissioner of Kolkata police and Chief of Special Task Force Rajiv Kumar has been entrusted with the job of tapping Banerjee’s phones.
“Under direct instructions from Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, the police are monitoring every move of our leader. This is an infringement of her rights. We have proof that every conversation of hers is being recorded by the police,” added Chatterjee.
In Canning on Saturday, Banerjee, meanwhile, announced a horde of new railway projects for South 24-Parganas. These include transforming Canning and Ghutiarisharif stations in to model ones, among others.
“A number of projects are yet to be announced in Bengal. I am planning a direct train from Ghutiarisharif to Ajmer Sharif. There are other projects in the pipeline for which I am awaiting the arrival of new trains. When new coaches are ready, I will definitely announce more for the people here,” said Banerjee.
Kolkata, Nov 16 (IANS) A day after noted singer Kabir Suman criticised mainstay political parties for misusing government funds, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday said it was his democratic right to express his opinion and the Trinamool Congress did not see the matter as a “major issue”.
“It’s a very small matter. Suman is a creative person and he has the democratic right to express his own opinion,” Banerjee said.
“We don’t want to make it an issue and we’ll talk it out within our party. You don’t have to be so worried about that,” said Banerjee, who is the Trinamool Congress chief.
“Kabir Suman is our guest in the party. He was never a Trinamool Congress worker. He is a civil society representative in our party and we respect him for his creativity.”
“I’ll look into the matter that he has raised. It’s true that our panchayats should function better,” she said, adding that Trinamool will sort out the issue as early as possible.
“When our government will come to power, we’ll try to address the functioning of the panchayat system, so that it could become more accountable to the people,” she said.
Suman, a Trinamool Congress MP from South 24-Parganas’ Jadavpur constituency, Sunday said that he did not see any difference between the CPI-M and the opposition parties in misusing funds allocated for development work.
He also termed himself as a ‘party slave’.
“Everyone is concerned about their own political gain and nothing else,” said Suman, who had trounced CPI-M heavyweight Sujan Chakraborty from the district’s Jadavpur constituency in the April-May general elections this year.
Noted Bengali singer Kabir Suman, who is now a Trinamool Congress MP, has said that he did not see any difference between West Bengal’s ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and the opposition in misusing funds allocated for development work, causing much embarrassment to his party.
“I don’t see any difference between the CPI-M and the opposition parties in misusing funds allocated for the development of the poor. Everyone is concerned about their own political gain and nothing else,” Suman said during the launch of a Bengali daily, Adivasi Sangbad, at Kolkata Press Club Sunday evening.
Terming himself a “party slave”, the newly elected Lok Sabha member said: “Don’t call me an MP. I am not a political person. I joined politics responding to the call of a mass movement.
“I will be very happy if my Lok Sabha membership is cancelled. I will also be happy if I don’t have to contest any further Lok Sabha elections,” the singer said, lashing out at the ways of all mainstream political parties.
“People should raise thousands of questions as to why there’s no development. I can say from my personal experience in South 24-Parganas district that there’s no development,” said Suman, who trounced CPI-M veteran Sujan Chakraborty from the district’s Jadavpur constituency in the April-May general elections.
“Those who were earlier running the panchayat of South 24-Parganas did nothing for the benefit of poor. But the question should also be raised; those who have come to power now, what have they done for them (the poor)?” he said.
The zilla parishad, upper tier of the three-level panchayat system, of South 24 Parganas district is controlled by Suman’s Trinamool Congress, which ousted the Left Front in the rural body polls last year.
GOD’S OWN COUNTRY BECOMES A GOD FORSAKEN LAND
EMS was Brahmin first, communist next: Cheated Dalits, OBCs, Muslims & destroyed Kerala
DR. M.S. JAYAPRAKASH, GURU VIHAR, KOLLAN DT. - 691 012
The birth centenary of the late E.M.S. (E.M. Sankaran Nambuthiripad) is now being celebrated in Kerala. He is supposed to be one of the noted marxian thinkers and theoreticians in India. There are various views and evaluations some of which are at variance with each other and even mutually contradicting, if not ridiculously hyperbolic, about the contribution of EMS to the growth of communism in the country. This article is to throw light on some of the dark areas related to the true personality of EMS that found expression in his social reforms efforts, egalitarian concepts etc. as a Nambuthiri Brahmin communist.
All those highly eulogized land reforms introduced and implemented by the Communist Govt. in Kerala under his leadership were in fact concealed reactionary measures to protect the interest of the upper caste feudal land owners of Kerala in the long run. The feudal system in Kerala was almost entirely controlled by the upper castes to which privileged class EMS belonged.
BEST FRIEND OF LANDLORDS
By birth and by tradition EMS was all through a victim of his Brahmin-feudal mindset and he could never extricate himself from the clutches of his mindset.
The upper caste land owners of Kerala originally thought EMS was their enemy and his pro-poor reforms mooted by the communist govt. were out to liquidate them. However, after a while, they soon realised EMS was their best friend to protect their vested interest and hence it is their duty to compete with others to shower eloquent economium on the fallacious greatness of this protagonist of the poor-suppressed-class of Kerala.
A critical examination of his political activities and decision will prove beyond a shadow of doubt that all his social-labour-downtrodden movements, which he undertook or inspired others to undertake, helped only to reverse the progress — economic or social — causing irreparable damage to the industrial, social, fabric of Kerala.
KERALA SUFFERED UNDER E.M.S.
The state is still suffering from the repercussions of those movements to which he gave intellectual leadership under the pretext of finding lasting solutions for the ills of the society.
His perverted approaches only added to the problems with the result that Kerala today stands neglected by reputed potential entrepreneurs, despite the efforts of various govts. that ruled the state from time to time including communist dispensations, to attract investments to the state.
The bad name earned by his perverse politics deeply vitiated the minds of the investors as well as the Kerala’s labour class.
COLOSSAL FAILURE
This “god’s own country” has been converted into a god-forsaken country solely owing to the eccentric ideas of this manuwadi communist theoretician - thinker.
And his faithful followers of Kerala went all-out to imitate his model particularly economic and industrial progress.
Any one in the party that showed the courage to think differently was caught off hand and nipped in the bud, ostensibly to protect and safeguard the interests of the labour class, the down-trodden majority.
Notwithstanding his unquestionable adroitness in interpreting communist ideology to serve his party, EMS has proved to be a colossal failure in the empirical sphere of promoting the economic interest of the state in general and the labour class in particular. The oppressed majority is always kept in the dark as to their future course continually giving them false hope of bright future which is never realised.
HIMALAYAN LIE
The propaganda that EMS donated all the wealth to the party voluntarily is a Himalayan lie that contradicts even the admission made by EMS himself. To quote EMS himself:
At this time I began to actively associate with the party programmes as a result of which I was afraid of various actions from the government like acquisition of my property etc. In order to escape from these actions I resolved to legally transfer all my properties, including the one inherited through my mother, in the name of my wife. (EMS, How I became a Communist, p.197).
However , EMS continues: “this did not help matters”. As EMS went into hiding to escape arrest all his properties that were transferred to his wife, were seized by the authorities forcing his wife to flee. This is another lie which EMS cooked to mislead the people. In fact those properties were seized by the authorities not because EMS went into hiding to evade arrest, but because the properties were grossly undervalued for the purpose of transfer depriving the treasury of a substantial revenue by way of stamp duty, registration fee etc.
FABULOUSLY RICH COMMUNIST
Any one can examine the registration records pertaining to the subsequent proceedings initiated by the authorities and get convinced of the veracity of this fact. Later the property came back to his ownership. These developments were then reported in leading dailies of Kerala (Mathrubhoomi, June 12, 1942).
He sold his property with a well furnished house located very close to the govt. secretariat, Trivandrum, for Rs. 40 lakhs in 1996. This income was shared among his sons and daughters.
This further proves that the propaganda that he donated all his wealth to the party is a Himalayan lie. Even today his supporters are involved in the propaganda that he lived in a rented house during his last days. This is the story of “poor EMS”.
ESTATE LAND
A little deeper examination of the Kerala Land Reforms Act will be useful to understand the motive behind framing such an act under EMS. The sole purpose of enacting this Act, as will be unraveled soon, is to hoodwink the landless majority of Kerala, to political advantage of the party.
ESTATE OWNERS GIVEN CONCESSION
There are 132 sections and subsections in the Kerala Land Reforms Act passed in 1970. The Act treats the entire land in Kerala to two clear divisions, namely agricultural land and estate land. As per the Act, a family of five members is allowed to own-possess 15 acres and any land in excess of this limit is considered to be illegal possessions which is to be surrendered to the govt.
Estate land has no limits and anybody can keep any number of acres lawfully. It is the so-called excess agricultural land that is seized and distributed among the poor landless in Kerala, subject to a maximum of 5 cents per family. Apparently, this will sound a reasonably attractive proposal to the ears of the traditionally landless poor. However in practice this has proved to be a burden on the back of the unfortunate poor. In effect, this is truly a normal commercial transaction entered into between the landless poor family, the land owner and the govt. As per clause 96, the allottee to whom the land is allotted by the authorities, shall pay 55% of the market value of the allotment to the original land owner whose excess land is allotted.
KRISHNA IYER’S CROOKED BRAIN
If the landless poor is unable to pay this 55% value in lumpsum, he will be permitted to remit the value on convenient installments. And the remaining 45% of the land market value will be disbursed by the govt. until the full value is received by the original land owner, the allotted piece of land will not be legally registered and given dejure possession to the allottee.
FAKE LAND REFORM
The poor landless family remains legally landless until the whole value is fully paid out. It is the fertile jurist’s brain and communist wisdom of Justice (retd.) V.R. Krishna Iyer one of the celebrated typical representatives of Indian Brahminism, that worked overtime, burning midnight oil, to help the poor landless lot of Kerala. Remember, the huge land presently in possession of the feudal land-owner came to be his possession illegally and unjustifiably. In majority of the cases, the land originally belonged to the predecessors of the present landless poor. It was by resorting to coercive, forceful, unlawful methods that the otherwise influential upper caste then took possession of these land masses depriving the rightful owners of their land.
Krishna Iyer and his co-communists know this history and more than any one else. Most of these “new land owners” of Kerala still remain indebted and in debts, as poor as ever.
BUNDLE OF LIES ON EXCESS LAND
This is the kind of land reforms in whose enactment the communist party and its capitalist leaders take credit. They celebrate this nonsense every year, like many other trivialities which they celebrate on an annual basis to continue to hoodwink the people of Kerala with the sole agenda of keeping the party alive and relevant. However the people of Kerala and now though late the people of West Bengal have started discerning the truth. The party has always been playing to the gallery ignoring the basic questions and their lasting solutions.
Look at the distribution side of this so-called excess land acquired from the land owners. As per the survey conducted by the govt. in the year 1966-67, a land area of one million acres were located and identified as excess land. Later this was officially declared by the govt. in its official gazette. However by a new declaration done in 1978 the govt. reidentified the excess land as only 1.5 lakh acres that is available for distribution (actually for sale). This reversal was done on second thought, obviously under the influence of the rich land owner’s lobby. But the total average of land actually taken over by the govt. was only 1,26,000 acres which was subsequently reduced to 89,587 acres by a third gazette notification. Still worse, out of this 89,587 acres acquired, only a mere 5,965 acres were distributed (actually sold) among the landless poor.
MANUFACTURING MARTYRS
The communists in fact hoodwinked the farmers and the landless poor in framing and implementation of the “revolutionary enactment called the Kerala Land Reforms Act”.
Punnapara-Vayalaar agitation of 1946 is another excellent example of communist party’s hypocrisy. This was an absolutely unnecessary agitation.
This agitation was contrived by the party with the sole purpose of creating martyrs.
KILLING DALITS & OBCS
The illiterate agitators were brain washed by false propaganda that converted them into fiery activities. It was all started as a labour agitation demanding higher wages and bonus for the agricultural labour and other workers. The agitation was formally launched at the beginning of 1946. In fact by March these two issues were solved through a negotiated settlement between the labour unions and the royal govt. represented by the Diwan, Sir C.P. Ramaswami Iyer. Following this settlement the agitation should have come to an end and declared withdrawn. However, the party resolved to continue the agitation taking advantage of the belligerent mood and environment for the benefit of the party.
E.M.S. TREACHERY
To every sensible man’s astonishment the party continued the agitation with redoubled vehemence, knowingly adding to the list some irrelevant and unrealisable demands that were meant to instigate the labour-workers. It was clear that the party was determined to convert the favourable developments into a very effective instrument to strengthen the party, keeping an eye on the immediate and distant political future in Kerala. Many young vibrant lives of OBCs and Dalits were sacrificed for no compelling reasons that had any relations with the interest of the working class as such.
E.M.S. MIXED MARX WITH MANU
The whole scheme was devised by the party stalwarts under the guidance and leadership of EMS and Co. just to rebuild the communist party into a political force in Kerala.
EMS and other leaders had left the place before the police firing. While the firing was taking place at Punnapra, EMS was addressing a meeting of his own caste men at Malappuram district.
Such was the treachery committed by this notorious communist leader. Ever since then the party has been using this unfortunate episode in which many innocent lives were lost rather deliberately given by the party for getting killed for the sake of the party. Creating false martyrs have always been communist party’s agenda and they seize every opportunity to achieve this goal at the cost of the innocent Dalits and OBCs. They don’t in the process bother how many innocent lives are lost throwing to wilderness their kith and kins. The party is interested only in promoting party and in the prosperity of a few leaders.
GHERAO, BANDH, HARTAL
EMS by his cunning interpretations actually shortened the distance between Marx and Manu.
In order to achieve this goal he made use of his knowledge in the Vedas and their Brahminical interpretations made by Brahmin scholars with their uncompromising commitment to protect the interest of the traditional ruling class in India.
The EMS worshippers of today, whose adulations know no bound, do not realise the fact that the world is no more prone to take them seriously. Virtually all the steps he mooted and implemented ostensibly to safeguard the interest of the labour class, both agricultural and industrial were retrograde ones and were counter productive. They have become a real menace militating against the interest of the labour class themselves.
E.M.S. DEFENDED CASTE SYSTEM
Methods and measures like gherao, bandh, hartal and similar coercive ones proved to be totally ineffective in solving issues except that they vitiated and poisoned the whole atmosphere throwing the employer- employee relationship into a mess of hatred and hostility.
As a matter of fact, communist parties in India always exploited the common mass to their advantage by creating an artificial dichotomy between the labour class and employer class. All their policies and programmes all along were to retain this divide and ever widen it with an unfounded view to strengthen the party to the level of omnipotence.
He had no hesitation in upholding Brahminism. He says:
The caste system is a boon to our society. The past glory of Kerala was the contribution of the caste system in which the Aryan Brahmins played a key role. The present day Kerala culture is a gift of that Brahminical culture. Though the Untouchable majority had no access to the then political and administrative systems they have provided a remarkable socio-cultural and political order. We should feel proud in that system.
(Keralam Malayalikalude Mathrubhoomi).
E.M.S. HATED NARAYANA GURU
To him Sri Narayana Guru, the revolutionary saint of Kerala, is a mere caste leader. It was EMS who propounded the theory of “economic reservation” and “creamy layer” to cheat the OBCs and the religious minorities.
INTELLECTUAL FILTH
In fact it was this notorious leader who killed the spirit of the social revolution in Kerala initiated by the OBC and Dalit leaders through a counter revolution in the pretext of a communist revolution, misinterpreting Marx and Engels.
All the works of EMS help us to understand how materialist conception is used to misinterpret Indian history and Kerala history. Where facts are absent he creates them with the help of the assumed models, where facts are present he ignores them if they do not fit into the models. This non-history base don non-facts of EMS have gone deep into the minds of his followers. They still hold on to that out-moded theory and produce much intellectual filth and call their work “scientific history”.
E.M.S. HATED MUSLIMS
EMS is a notorious opportunist. Under his inspiration the party always adopted anti-minority stands with an eye on the Hindu vote bank. He believed and made the party to believe that by exercising this policy, a Hindu polarisation in favour of the party could be achieved leading to electoral victory. At the beginning of every election in Kerala, the party very skilfully diverted the attention of the Muslims from even the hottest local issues directly affecting the community’s interest which have been evading solution for long to general international issues. By this insincere show of solidarity with the global Muslim community, the latent Muslim emotion are roused and taken practical advantage of.
EMS and the party under him never, ever wanted the prosperity of the minorities, particularly Muslims in India. They on the contrary, have done everything to block the community’s progress — educational, economic, social and political.
The typical example is that of West Bengal where the party is in power for 37 years almost without break.
SACHAR REPORT
The over-all condition of the community in West Bengal is alarmingly below the national average. This is emphatically highlighted by the Sachar Committee Report, appointed by the central govt. to study the Muslim minority’s over-all status in relation to other population segments in India.
“Hunt with the hound and run with the hare”, is the policy advocated by EMS for the party.
(See also articles & reports)
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