[Reader-list] apologist for Nandigram

[hpp at vsnl.com]

Dear Shri Ray

Thank you for your post on Nandigram. It is very illuminating. It is good to 
know how the CPI(M0 and its friends are thinking.

Please try to communicate this to the people of West Bengal. In that 
process, you might learn a thing or two about reality, that is if you really 
want to or care to know.

Every perspective that you have aired can be irrefutably countered. But that 
would only be a waste of time, and naive.

CPI(M), any of the other Left Front members, or Trinamul or Congress or 
BJP - none of them are needed by the people of West Bengal. No amount of 
attribution of blame to "outsiders", or "Naxalites" or "Maoists" is going to 
mask the reality - of what CPM is and has done and is now doing in West 
Bengal.

There is no political opposition in the state. Hence the option people all 
over India have, of booting out parties from office, is not available here. 
So one can only foresee terrible instalibity and violence in the coming 
days, as people's opposition takes on a frustrated, destructive form. But 
the blame for this would lie squarely on the CPM, for their corruption, for 
their distortion of civic life, for their fascist make-up.

West Bengal today faces an immense challenge - of establishing a new 
political front that can offer an alternative to the people. A very basic 
common minimum programme is imperative - e.g. rebuilding the shattered 
primary education and healthcare system; providing civic amenities; 
eliminating the corruption, extortion and thuggery that has seeped into the 
very pores of the society; socio-economic inclusion of the minorities, 
Dalits and adivasis.

The CPM is not going to be able to train its guns and rain its bombs on the 
lakhs and lakhs of people from all walks of life, whose blood is boiling as 
each day brings new scams and deals, and reveals the arrogance and fascist 
actions of the party.

Those like you who supposedly are concerned about the common people, and 
even more about the CPM - should try to tell your friends that their days of 
ugly power are nearing an end; and to act accordingly. Hypothetically 
speaking, if at all anything can save the situation for the party - drastic 
reform is needed, towards de-criminalising the party and restoring the rule 
of law and the Constitution of India. But that is never going to happen.

For what the CPM is totally to blame for - the people of West Bengal are 
going to suffer in the immediate future, as instability and violence grow.

To hate a ruling party for its corruptions, to want to eject them, to plan and act on this - 
all within the framework of non-violent, Constititionally valid methods - is perfectly legitimate 
in a democratic polity, and a citizen has a right to do this.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely

V Ramaswamy
Calcutta
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