[Reader-list] [Announcements] Rally to Protest NandigramKillings

[Taraprakash]

There would be protests if BJP, TMC or Congress or any other government had
massacred people in Nandi Gram. In fact CPIM activists perhaps be shouting
the loudest, and using their threat of BJP's cleansing of Muslims from the
country. Some newspaper editorials have in fact suggested that Atal Bihari
wants to be soft on the issue of killings in Nandi Gram, whatever may the
reasons be. RSS seems to be supporting it, I had a long argument with an RSS
ideologue on another list on this issue, before I left that list, and that
guy was in support of the land acquisition in Nandi Gram. Even in parliament
when NDA is asking for a discussion, they are focusing on the failure of the
Central government in preventing the crisis, and not really on the
government that lead to it.
For me there is only one binary opposition at present, those who have power
and misuse it and those who want to check the power being misused.
Just because massacres have taken place in the history and nobody was held
responsible for it, or nobody apologized for it, doesn't mean that CPM
should be allowed to get away with the brutalities perpetrated on the weak
and innocent people.

I reject the cynicism expressed in the below mail. Even if it is a mirage or
a dream that there will be a time when people will be able to understand and
resist the machinations for/of power, I would like to nurture it. As Pash
said
Sab se khatarnaak hai sapnon ka mar jana.

(Death of dreams is the most dangerous.)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mrityunjay Chatterjee" <joy at sarai.net>
To: <reader-list at sarai.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 2:29 AM
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Rally to Protest
NandigramKillings


> Dear all,
>
> I seroulsy don't think that CPIM is responsible for what ever happening.
> It is us who are responsible. Because neither CPIM not the Trinamool or
> naxalites or congress or BJP or any other organisation is outside us and
> our desire and lethargy. I just wonder who would 'outst'
> 'self-rightious' us?
>
> When communists were communists? Shuddha's lists shows its demise much
> before any one us took birth. But we still believe in the religion
> called communism.  It is not the problem of CPIM, it is our problem.
>
> Which political practice was ever transparent? Millions have died in
> history due to political callousness who had ever asked for apology?
>
> Your last line is the death nail for all of us, as we all know Congress
> or BJP is no better than CPIM.
>
>
> Finally my problem with protests is exactly that, it jumps into binary
> oppositions. And this binary opposition was never there. Let us not run
> after mirage.
>
> Best wishes
> Joy
>
> Taraprakash wrote:
>> It is the duty of every responsible citizen to outst, as soon as
>> possible,
>> this right wing CPM government, that is now leftist only in the name.
>> Don't
>> forget the brutalization in Bengal of those who do not support CPM and
>> those
>> who know that CPM is actually misusing the letters 'c' and 'm' in their
>> name.
>> Whatever little difference was left between Congress and CPM has been
>> done
>> away with after Singur and Nandi Gram. Too much power has already
>> corrupted
>> them. The High court has already ruled that the deal in Singur was not
>> transparent.
>> It is only 2 days back, that the government has declared not to go ahead
>> with land acquisition in Nandi Gram, what if they could do it before
>> killing
>> more than 30 people. (many hundreds are still missing). The height of
>> shamelessness was defending the West Bengal government after whatever
>> happened in Nandi Gram, by the CPM leadership; the height of
>> shamelessness,
>> they have massacred the innocent people and not a word of apology. The
>> height of shamelessness when people justify killing and abduction of
>> hundreds of people in the name of defending few people, not because they
>> are
>> innocent citizens of the state, but because they are CPM activists.
>> Let us not forget what happened recently in Singur and Nandi Gram, and
>> those
>> who know what happens in West Bengal to those who dare to oppose CPM, no
>> matter leftist or otherwise, let us not forget. CPM in West Bengal is as
>> bad
>> as any sectarian repressive government is, time for them to give up the
>> red
>> flag and time for them to look for fresh nexus with congress and BJP.
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Mrityunjay Chatterjee" <joy at sarai.net>
>> To: <reader-list at sarai.net>
>> Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 11:37 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Rally to Protest
>> NandigramKillings
>>
>>
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I had been following the postings and the news on nandigram. Let me
>>> condemn the act of violence in nandigram. But when we go for protest, we
>>> tend to look through the language of victim and culprit. To complicate
>>> the situation I would like to say we don’t have any clear victim or
>>> culprit. Police is surely responsible for the firing, but at the same
>>> time, oppositions and other political parties are equally responsible
>>> for the instigating the people of nandigram and making them scapegoat.
>>> So let us not just get into senseless lazy activism of protest, rather
>>> think deeper. This is my request.
>>>
>>> Best
>>>
>>> Joy
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