[Reader-list] Farewell to Our Humid Weimar

Sun Jul 13 13:04:37 IST 2008

Hi, all,

   what is wrong if political party like CPM realises its mistakes that it has been supporting the Congress after its sad demise, a dead corpse, resurrected by Sonia for her survival as a queen of mafia, all illegal deals of Congress after 1984 have benefitted only this family and her sycophnats with hangers on. Be it Vidharbha package of 3,470 crores for the farmers, or special packages for the states, or the NREG schemes it is the hangers on and sycophants of this party who have siphoned off the funds meant for rural employment, farm equipments etc.

 Even Vibhishana in Ramayana shifted his loyalty to  Rama as he could not stand asathya of Ravana, who is known as good king but fell into bad governance with immoral kidnap of some one elses spouse.! 
Regards.

----- Original Message -----
From: TaraPrakash <taraprakash at gmail.com>
Date: Sunday, July 13, 2008 8:58 am
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Farewell to Our Humid Weimar
To: sarai list <reader-list at sarai.net>, Shuddhabrata Sengupta <shuddha at sarai.net>

> CPIM is a sinking ship. How far their Biman can sink is a million 
> dollar 
> question. Perhaps sky is the limit.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Shuddhabrata Sengupta" <shuddha at sarai.net>
> To: "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2008 6:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Farewell to Our Humid Weimar
> 
> 
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I rest my case.
> >
> > Please read the two articles from the Indian Express - below.
> > When I hear the so-called 'Left' and 'Right' march in unison, I hear
> > the distant thud of jackboots in the night.
> >
> > cheers (?)
> >
> > Shuddha
> > ---------------------------
> >
> > CPM speaks what was its unspeakable: we can support BJP-led 
> coalition> if...
> > Dipankar De Sarkar
> > Posted online: Sunday, July 13, 2008 at 0136 hrs Print Email
> > It’s communal...doesn’t mean all the time BJP did mischief: Biman
> > http://www.indianexpress.com/sunday/story/334897.html
> >
> > London, July 12:Biman Bose, CPM Politburo member and Left Front
> > chairman in West Bengal, has said that the Left can consider
> > supporting a BJP-led coalition if that party sheds what he 
> called its
> > “communal agenda”.
> >
> > In surprising remarks made in London on Thursday, he also said the
> > Left may have made “a mistake” by not withdrawing its support from
> > the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government 
> earlier> and accused the Congress of trying to “bail out” the US 
> Republican> Party through the nuclear deal ahead of US elections.
> >
> > Bose made his startling remarks while briefing a select group of
> > British diplomats, bankers, and government and Commonwealth 
> officials> over dinner in London Thursday night.
> >
> > IANS was the only Indian media group invited to this meeting.
> >
> > The dinner was hosted by industrialist Shishir Bajoria of the 
> Kolkata-
> > based Bajoria Group. Bose, who is general secretary of the West
> > Bengal CPM, was asked pointedly if there were any circumstances 
> under> which the Left would support a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led
> > coalition in New Delhi.
> >
> > “The Left never subscribed to the communal politics of the BJP. That
> > does not mean the BJP all the time did only mischief. It does not
> > mean that. But the BJP could not leave its communal agenda,” 
> Bose said.
> >
> > “If it happens that the BJP is opposing communal politics, then the
> > real stand will be clarified. Whether the BJP is more dangerous than
> > the Congress or the other way round depends on some distinct
> > political twists and turns, and parties’ principles can be judged
> > only in those twists and turns, not in normal conditions...So wait
> > for some days — or some years — to see those twists and turns. 
> If the
> > BJP moves with the same politics with which they are moving today,
> > the question (of supporting the BJP) doesn’t arise at all,” he 
> added.>
> > Asked if the CPM wanted the BJP to support a common minimum
> > programme, Bose stressed the importance of secularism. “They are to
> > cut religion and politics. They mix up religion and politics.
> > Religion should remain in temples, churches and mosques or in
> > gurdwaras. That should be the private belief of the person 
> concerned.> Religion should not be mixed up with politics,” he 
> replied.>
> > Earlier, speaking exclusively to IANS, Bose said that when it 
> came to
> > the post-election scenario, the Left would support a Congress-led
> > coalition “if the Congress has learnt their lesson”. “They have to
> > bring down inflation, and introduce a universal public distribution
> > system, and universal and free health and education.”
> >
> > Bose, in a dhoti in a roomful of men and women in business suits,
> > hinted at a larger,global reason behind the Left’s withdrawal of
> > support to the government over the India-US nuclear deal. “The
> > (popularity) rating of George W Bush in the US has gone down to 28
> > percent. This has never happened before in history. The lowest used
> > to be 38 percent - now it is 28 percent,” he told his audience. “In
> > that political scenario, the government of India is going to 
> bail out
> > George W. Bush by signing the nuclear agreement,” he said, adding
> > that nuclear energy would account for only eight percent of India’s
> > energy needs.
> >
> > Asked why the Left had not withdrawn support earlier, Bose replied:
> > “There you might blame the Left parties.”
> >
> >
> > ----------------------
> >
> >
> > RSS lends Karat a shoulder to cry on
> > Suman K Jha
> > Posted online: Sunday, July 13, 2008 at 0131 hrs Print Email
> >
> > New Delhi, July 12:As the CPM tries to put up a brave face battling
> > contradictions within on its vote against the Congress-led 
> Government> over the Indo-US nuclear deal, it has found support 
> from none other
=3E > than the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh.
> >
> >
> > Turning a sympathetic observer, the editorial in the latest 
> issue of
> > RSS mouthpiece Organiser has put up a stout defence of Comrade
> > Prakash Karat, something that would probably make even CPM organ
> > People’s Democracy blush.
> >
> > “The Congress has deliberately created the situation, practically
> > pushing the Left to the brink...The CPM general secretary Prakash
> > Karat has reasons to be fuming. He has accused the Congress of
> > humiliating his party and betraying its trust. He is right. The
> > Congress didn’t extend the courtesy of showing the Left the original
> > draft of the deal...Clearly, the government meant to slight the
> > Left...” says the editorial.
> >
> > “The Left has been foolish enough in extending its support to the
> > Congress in the name of keeping the BJP out to run the government,
> > almost like a single party...There was a Common Minimum Programme.
> > The Indo-US nuclear deal was not a party of it. For any political
> > observer the Congress hara-kiri doesn’t make sense. Yet it has
> > challenged Karat and declared itself a single-agenda government. Has
> > the Left been so nagging for Sonia as to prefer this plight to their
> > assured parliamentary security,” says the editorial.
> >
> > In what appears to be an open exhortation to the Left to revisit its
> > past when it shared the anti-Congress platform with the BJP-
> Bharatiya> Jana Sangh, the editorial adds: “There is no meeting 
> ground between
> > the Left and the Congress but for their mutual antipathy for the 
> BJP.> In the fact the Left has tied itself in knots by following a 
> policy> of political untouchability and it was desperate to 
> distance itself
> > from the failed UPA sufficiently early to face the electorate in the
> > general election.”
> >
> > If one thought that the Left is in for huge reverses in the
> > forthcoming elections, the RSS journal has an explanation ready: 
> “The> poor record of the Manmohan Singh, it is feared, is bound to 
> have an
> > impact on the electoral fortunes of the Left.” When contacted, 
> former> Sangh spokesperson Ram Madhav said that “the RSS would 
> like all
> > political parties to take a stand against the nuclear deal in its
> > present form.” Exactly what Comrade Karat says.
> >
> > _________________________
> >
> > Shuddhabrata Sengupta
> > The Sarai Programme at CSDS
> > Raqs Media Collective
> > shuddha at sarai.net
> > www.sarai.net
> > www.raqsmediacollective.net
> >
> >
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