[Reader-list] The Communist Conspiracy !

[taraprakash]

Dear Rakesh and all. I will request you not to use amorphous "left" when you 
should use "Left Front" or more     specifically "CPIM" You don't address 
Congress or other "non-left" parties as a collective right while talking 
about them.
Secondly, as you have suggested CPIM and CPI at this moment have nothing 
against policies, they are only against parties. They will not mind RSS or 
any such organization's support if they are opposed to BJP and Congress. I 
wonder if you noticed how much RSS activists had helped Maya Vati to win the 
UP elections. No matter how little Brahmins voted for BSP Dalit Brahmin 
combination worked against BJP and Congress and in favor of BSP. A Hindutva 
idealogue had actually openly said little after the previous Lok Sabha 
elections that only a Dalit woman can unify this country. So there they are 
again, working with RSS and working as RSS.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rakesh Iyer" <rakesh.rnbdj at gmail.com>
To: "prakash ray" <pkray11 at gmail.com>
Cc: <reader-list at sarai.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 6:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] The Communist Conspiracy !


> Dear Prakash jee
>
> You have raised certain important issues, and I would like to answer them
> below:
>
> 1) We are talking about Left here, so I wont' raise arguments about
> reservation, either for or against. The OBC reservation has been more 
> linked
> with VP Singh rather than the Left. I don't have issues with reservation 
> as
> a way to solve problems, though there are other issues case by case. So I
> rest the case there.
>
> As for supporting it, the VP Singh govt also ensured that the country
> continued on the path to being communalized under the Rath Yatra, thanks 
> to
> its support of the BJP. Not until Lalu Yadav stopped the Yatra, did 
> anybody
> do anything about it. And the Left couldn't pressurize the govt. to do
> anything about it. They should have withdrawn then itself if this was what
> happening as the Yatra was going on.
>
> I have no issues with implementing the Mandal report (though with
> modifications). As for Congress, I support policies, not parties.
>
> 2) By stating the obvious, you have already said that Left has to play a
> game of political opportunism to be in contention for power at the Centre.
> Whatever you may point out, the AIADMK, the BSP, or the BJD are parties
> which are authoritarian and undemocratic. Moreover, all have had fair 
> share
> of corruption or wrong policies of industrialization being followed at the
> ground level. Till last 6 months, the Left was fighting BJD on the issue 
> of
> land being snatched away from tribals, now they are in alliance. What 
> great
> hobnobbing?
>
> If you wish to justify this by stating this is a politically expedient 
> move,
> for me it's still wrong, though I can sympathise with the Left for it 
> being
> inevitable.
>
> 3) Alliances if made are not wrong. But alliances should not be based on
> political opportunism. Otherwise there is no point in such alliances at 
> all.
> Do the BSP, AIADMK or even the BJD have a proper conception of development
> and what they stand for? Do they even have an idea about the kind of
> policies to be introduced, and have discussions on such issues? Do they 
> even
> have inner-party democracy? Forget all this, is there any assurance that
> AIADMK or BSP would stay back with the Left post elections?
>
> Even the Left would not have the answer to that. And if it thinks it has
> answers, let me remind people here that after 2001 elections of assembly 
> in
> Tamil Nadu, where Jayalalitha was in alliance with Left and Congress, on
> gaining an absolute majority of her own, she threw away all her allies and
> instead supported BJP's stand in the assembly on many issues.
>
> Whom are you fooling by creating such alliances with corrupt individuals?
>
> 4) If the Bengal govt. would have conducted a referendum in Nandigram and
> Singur before giving land, among all the stakeholders involved, after
> conducting proper discussions between them and the Tatas, and if then the
> referendum would have approved transfer of the land, would not that have
> introduced a new model of development in West Bengal and India?
>
> I am happy you accept at least that the Left's policy was flawed. But my
> issue is still not addressed completely here. Buddhadev approves FDI in
> certain sectors and even said once that nuclear energy is fine. But the 
> Left
> opposed both the nuclear deal and even FDI in those same sectors Buddhadev
> supports. Then which is the true Left?
>
> 5) For your point with Madani, here is the story from Outlook:
>
> *Even with all this, the "bad flavour" of the month, by all accounts, is
> Pinarayi Vijayan. His cosying up to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) of
> Abdul Nasser Madani, linked to the 1998 Coimbatore blasts, has embarrassed
> many of his comrades. Pinarayi justifies it with the 
> ends-justify-the-means
> line, saying the PDP’s unsolicited, unconditional support could help end 
> the
> Muslim League’s sway. *
>
> *Not many are convinced. Critic and columnist Prof Sukumar Azhikode, a
> friend of Pinarayi’s, has this to say: "It’s sickening. It hurts one’s 
> eyes
> to se them—Vijayan and Madani—together." Tactically, CM V.S. Achuthanandan
> disapproved of the open dalliance with the Muslim cleric, whose family is 
> on
> the terror radar. In fact, Director-General of Prosecution V.G. Govindan
> Nair’s advisory to the home department has asked that serious note be 
> taken
> of the allegations against the Madani family following the high court’s
> intervention.
> *
>
> *The LDF’s other constituents aren’t happy either. CPI general secretary
> A.B. Bardhan has called the PDP "communal". RSP general secretary T.J.
> Chandrachoodan described the party as "worse than the Muslim League". It 
> was
> left to CPI(M) politburo member S. Ramachandran Pillai to raise a 
> technical
> argument in Pinarayi’s favour, saying the party had not yet taken a stand 
> on
> the PDP unlike on the League, which "is communal".
> *
>
> What* *you are raising here is a technical argument that Madani has come 
> and
> supported the Communists. At the least, the party could have denounced him
> and said they dont' require his support. Even now, they haven't said so.
> What they do say is that they haven't taken a stand on the issue.
>
> 6)  For your point about the case against Pinarayi Vijayan, here is 
> further
> more from Outlook:
>
> *As power minister in 1996-98, flouting established procedure, he presided
> over the award of a Rs 390-crore contract to Canadian engineering firm SNC
> Lavalin for the repair and modernisation of three hydel plants. The CAG 
> had
> slammed the contract. The CBI, which probed the deal on the HC’s orders, 
> has
> arraigned Pinarayi as the 9th accused. Its request for sanction to 
> prosecute
> him is pending with the governor, who in turn is awaiting the state
> cabinet’s advice. *
>
> The link for Outlook story is:
> http://outlookindia.com/fullprint.asp?choice=2&fodname=20090427&fname=Kerala&sid=1
>
>
> So what can I say? The Left is as politically opportunistic as the BJP has
> been, except that the BJP knows it is focussed on the larger goal of
> creating Hindu nation more than the Left in terms of improving conditions
> for the people.
>
> Regards
>
> Rakesh
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