[Reader-list] Communists ask for forgiveness for acts committed in past

[anupam chakravartty]

who? atal behari vajpeyee..he is not even there. instead we have more, shall
i say a "purified" version? of modi...mr varun gandhi. since u seem to be an
insider in the BJP, why not tell us who is funding the Ram Temple? will it
be publicly funded...
On 4/6/09, Pawan Durani <pawan.durani at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Anupam Ji ,
>
> Probably you read only those news item which carry the red flag . Has
> not the BJP also termed Gujarat incident as unfortunate.
>
> Pawan
>
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:19 AM, anupam chakravartty <c.anupam at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > at least they acknowledge their acts unlike maya kodnani and the saffron
> > bandwagon who killed so many in gujarat. although its an interesting
> piece
> > of news.
> > anupam
> > On 4/5/09, Pawan Durani <pawan.durani at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/cpimdefensive-seeks-forgiveness/354025/
> >>
> >> Party cadres told to go to people and seek forgiveness for their acts
> >> committed in the past.
> >>
> >> The CPI(M) in West Bengal has finally decided to do something which it
> >> had not done in the last three decades: seek people’s forgiveness.
> >>
> >> Biman Bose, the state secretary of the ruling party, has repeatedly
> >> asked his party cadres to go to people and seek forgiveness for their
> >> acts committed in the past. Earlier, Bose had gone to public while
> >> addressing an election meeting in Purulia, saying that “some of our
> >> leaders have become arrogant”. Though he did not identify any of those
> >> “arrogant” leaders, he later pursued the issue in the CPI(M) state
> >> secretariat and Left Front meetings. He also admitted in public that
> >> he had advised the party cadres to tender an apology to the people for
> >> their past arrogance.
> >>
> >> Following the CPI(M), the Forward Bloc (FB), another Left Front
> >> partner, has also taken the same approach. Yesterday, at a meeting of
> >> the party’s trade union wing TUCC, FB state secretary Ashok Ghosh
> >> urged the cadres not to show arrogance in their behaviour towards
> >> people and also to seek forgiveness for their past acts, if any.
> >>
> >> In other words, this is an admission from the top leaders that three
> >> decades of uninterrupted power has created a class of arrogant leaders
> >> and cadres which in turn is pushing the people away from the Left.
> >>
> >> Gurudas Dasgupta, the CPI MP from Bengal who is now busy fighting
> >> another electoral battle from Ghatal (after the delimitation process,
> >> the old Panskura constituency has been renamed as Ghatal), feels this
> >> is good tactical move. “It is a defensive game, where defence is the
> >> best offence,” he says.
> >>
> >> But the Opposition detects a streak of nervousness in these campaign
> >> tactics. Congress leader Manas Bhuian is convinced that the “CPI(M)
> >> now is nervous. It could read the writing on the wall and that forced
> >> it to change the tactic. But power has gone to their head. They are
> >> giddy with success and for that they can’t change their attitude
> >> overnight”.
> >>
> >> Sudip Banerjee, the TMC candidate from North Kolkata, feels: “The
> >> CPI(M) is now really on the defensive. But no matter how much it tries
> >> to extricate itself from this position, it won’t succeed. It is too
> >> little and too late.”
> >>
> >> But a section of CPI(M) leaders, who are close to Biman Bose, believe
> >> that this move might put a stop to the erosion of support in the rural
> >> areas where in the recent past the Left suffered a series of electoral
> >> setbacks.
> >>
> >> Last year, after having a major debacle in the panchayat elections,
> >> the party tried to find out the causes of the setback. The review
> >> brought out the seamy side of the party organisation at the grassroots
> >> level, where leaders have amassed huge power in their hands and turned
> >> into tyrants themselves. For the party, it was a revelation, but the
> >> people knew it already through their day to day experiences.
> >> Incidentally, along that line, a move to sideline some of those
> >> leaders in the election was also mooted by the leadership but finally
> >> discarded after considering it too hasty while finalising the
> >> candidates’ list.
> >>
> >> According to insiders, by asking the party cadres to be more humble in
> >> their approach to the people, Biman Bose also wants to send a signal
> >> to those party satraps to fall in line.
> >>
> >> It is to be watched if the measures taken at the higher level can
> >> discipline the party organisation, but truly it is a climb-down from
> >> the position they earlier used to enjoy in the state.
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