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

[Pawan Durani]

Yes , 100 crore Indian would fund it.

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:46 AM, anupam chakravartty <c.anupam at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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