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Resist the Heinous Conspiracy Unitedly


Statement issued by the CPI(M)’s  Kerala state secretariat on May 15, 2012.



THE Kerala state secretariat of the CPI(M) appeals to the CPI(M)
activists and masses for whom the Party is precious than their life,
to be vigilant against onslaughts intended to disrupt the Party.
Venomous, erroneous campaigns unleashed against the Party are part of
a conspiracy that is hatched against the CPI(M) which is kept by lakhs
of workers, peasants and other masses close to their hearts. This is
the right moment that the Party workers and its well-wishers come
forward vigilantly, as on earlier occasions when they had surged
forward to protect the Party in critical junctures. Party workers and
sympathisers have to come out unitedly to expose and resist the
vicious campaigns unleashed incessantly by the UDF, other
anti-Communists and a section of the media.



The present attack against the LDF and the CPI(M), the major party of
the front, is unleashed in a unique situation. The UDF government is
facing a deep crisis today. Their rule for a year has made the people
of Kerala absolutely discontented. A steep price rise has made the
lives of the poor unbearable. Rationing and public distribution
systems were completely disrupted. Severe cut in kerosene distribution
has landed the fishermen in coastal areas in a deep crisis. Black
market price of one litre of kerosene is Rs 100 and it makes the
fishing impossible by purchasing kerosene at this price. Load shedding
and power cut have made all families extremely angry. In addition,
increase in power tariff rate has also been announced. Power cut has
landed the industrial sector of the state in a big crisis. All are
reminded of the days of reign of the LDF government. Not even one
project announced by chief minister Oommen Chandy has been started
till date.



Repeated price increases of petrol and diesel by the central
government led by the Congress has inflicted a huge economic burden on
the people. It has made price rise more severe.



Moreover, severe discontent was growing in the Congress party and the
UDF constituents against chief minister Oommen Chandy who succumbed
before the pressures of the Muslim League which ultimately resulted in
an embarrassment to the whole state. Some Congress leaders openly
reacted against this. Awarding the fifth ministership to Muslim League
has caused damage to the secular foundation of the state. Portfolios
were distributed again on the basis of caste and community of
ministers. Caste organisations supporting the UDF came out openly
opposing this step. The face of the UDF has got more tarnished due to
these developments.



Selvaraj was influenced to resign his legislature membership by luring
him with money and promises. The decision of the UDF to make the
defector as its candidate in the bye-election has created big anguish
among the voters of Neyyattinkara constituency. Oommen Chandy led UDF
was in quandary as they are compelled to carry the very same person
who had earlier announced that it would be better to commit suicide
than to join UDF.



Differences have erupted in the state cabinet over the Mullaperiyar
issue. While the Congress and the chief minister justify the Expert
Committee Report, ministers K M Mani and P J Joseph belonging to
Kerala Congress are opposing it. The popular anger unleashed all over
the state against the UDF government and the central government for
adopting a stand protecting the Italian Navy men who murdered
fishermen at sea by shooting them, is not small. That the Supreme
Court had to ask the government whether they have forgotten the fact
that Italian Navy men had shot down Indian citizens is an obvious
evidence of their treacherous game. UDF is facing a very severe
challenge presently.



It is in this background that the conspiracy against the CPI(M)
emerges. It will not be wrong to suspect that the dastardly murder of
T P Chandrasekharan was part of this conspiracy. The undue haste shown
by the ministers and the Congress leaders, immediately after the
murder by accusing the CPI(M) for the murder, increases this
suspicion.



This horrendous murder is despicable, mean and pathetic. The state
secretariat condemned this murder and expressed deep protest of the
Party over this. The Party demanded that there has to be a diligent
enquiry to find out the culprits. The Party also declared beyond any
doubt that it had no connection with this murder as propagated by the
enemies of the Party. Authorities have to adopt immediate measures to
apprehend the murderers and those who instigated the murder as early
as possible and present them before the judiciary so as to mete out
deserving punishment to them.



It is not the policy of the Party to dispose off physically those who
have disagreement. The Party has not endeavored to murder anyone who
had left the Party for political or organisational reasons. It is by
covering up all these truths that allegations are being spread against
the Party.



Soon after the murder, the first person to come out levelling the
charge against the CPI(M) was none other than Mullappally
Ramachandran, MP from Vadakara and union state minister for home. Soon
after, he was followed by chief minister Oommen Chandy, home minister
Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan and KPCC president Ramesh Chennithala in
repeating this lie. What was the basis on which these responsible
persons alleged such a crime on the CPI(M) even before an FIR was
prepared on the incident of murder? It is clear that this was part of
a political conspiracy. When the state DGP stated that the murder of
Chandrasekharan was committed for private profit and that it is not
being given a political status, home minister Thiruvanchoor
Radhakrishnan corrected the DGP hurriedly, stating that it was a
‘political murder’. Who is not able to see the ill-intention behind
such a statement by the home minister? Such an open comment by the
home minister who is the political head of the home department against
the DGP who is the official head of the police department exposes the
breakdown of the government functioning. This is extremely serious.



It is to be presumed that a conspiracy is taking shape in order to
hunt the CPI(M). In 1972, the semi-fascist terror started in West
Bengal, using the murder of Hemant Basu, leader of the Forward Bloc as
a pretext to unleash an attack against the Party. The Congress
government under Siddharth Sankar Ray had murdered about 1500 Party
workers in West Bengal. The current attack by the anti-communist
forces reminds us of that historical fact. In order to prepare a
backdrop for the same, the rightist print and electronic media are
lashing out with a propaganda barrage, with specially prepared news
items which are coloured with lies. Political interventions are taking
place which make it impossible to carry out an impartial enquiry.
Public statements made by the home minister Thiruvanchoor
Radhakrishnan, clearly make out such a dubious game plan.



It was in 2008 that T P Chandrasekharan, an area committee member and
a number of Party workers left the Party. The LDF decision was that
panchayat presidentships in Onchiyam area of Eramala and Azhiyoor are
to be exchanged between the CPI(M) and Janata Dal after a period of
two and a half years. President of Eramala panchayat from 2005 onwards
was Venu who later left the Party. They kept a group of comrades with
them expressing opposition to withdraw from the post of Eramala
president, displaying a naked desire for position, parliamentary greed
and absence of communist values. These people formed Revolutionary
Marxist Party protesting against the district Party leadership for not
agreeing to violate united front norms. This does not involve any
issue of communist ideology. If there is any, it is the evident
departure of those who left the Party, from Marxist ideology. That
these people address themselves as Revolutionary Marxists, is
ridiculous.



During that occasion they had never raised any objection to the
political and ideological positions of the Party. Nobody can argue
that the Party had any resentment towards Chandrasekharan as the Party
had given opportunity to rectify himself by inducting him in the area
committee after his one year suspension from the Party in 2001.
Challenging the Party decision to give Eramala panchayath president
position to the LDF constituent Janata Dal for two and half years
during the last phase, as part of the decision to avert damaging the
Left Democratic Front (LDF), they left the Party by misleading some
comrades and had never raised any ideological question at that point
of time. They utilised the differences and disputes that existed in
Eramala panchayath on various issues between the CPI(M) and Janata Dal
activists as an opportunity at that time.



These sections to some extent were successful in splitting the LDF
vote during the 2009 parliament elections which helped the UDF
candidate Mullappalli Ramachandran to get elected. It further aided
the Veerendra Kumar Janata Dal combined UDF to win in the 2010 local
bodies election in the Eramala panchayath. At the same time, in
Onchiyam panchayath, the RMP was able to win only in the seats where
they aligned with the UDF. In those wards, the LDF candidates were
defeated with meager margins.  In 2011 assembly elections, despite the
divisive role of these sections, the LDF emerged victorious in the
Vadakara constituency by defeating the Veerendra Kumar Janata Dal
combined UDF. The Eramala panchayath in Vadakara is considered as the
strongest hold of the Veerendra Kumar Janata Dal in the state. It was
in that constituency the Janata Dal, a constituent of the LDF,
defeated the Veerendra Kumar Janata Dal candidate, a constituent of
the UDF.



Hence, it is obvious that the ‘Revolutionary Marxist Party’ balloon
bloated by the UDF and the right wing media, flattened out rapidly. As
a result of the patient and vigilant efforts of the Party, a major
section among the misguided comrades came back to the Party. The huge
participation of the masses in the 20th Congress of the Party
astonished even the opponents. Given these facts, it was vividly clear
that the anti-Party section could no longer survive. At this juncture
can there be any motive for the CPI(M) to murder Chandrashekharan? Who
is the real beneficiary of the murder? These questions establish the
dubious motivation behind the murder.



Unlike the past days, the Party enemies are currently using new
tactics to attack the Party. Instead of attacking the Party as a
whole, they tactically showcase a section in the Party as symbols of
vice and some others as role models and symbols of virtue. The
anti-Party section of Shoranur had enunciated these propaganda tactics
that were subsequently used by the Onchiyam anti-CPI(M) camp. This
bourgeois media aided propaganda was intended to generate confusion
among the Party ranks.  After the killing of Chandrasekharan, these
sections intensified the same propaganda. The RMP openly took a
position that some people in the CPI(M) can visit Chandrasekharan’s
house and others are not allowed to do so. It is definite that the
thoughtful people of Kerala will reject this malicious campaign that
intends to divide the Party and malign its leadership.



It is unfortunate that a section of the writers joined the malicious
campaign unleashed by the Congress party, the UDF and some reactionary
media intended to tarnish the Party. Any criticism is appreciated if
there is any substantial base behind such criticism. But it is
unjustifiable to denounce the Party on the basis of fabricated
speculations.



The Congress Party’s enthusiasm to create the smokescreen of CPI(M)
violence is absurd. It is the Congress men who had burnt alive five
comrades at Cheemeni in Kasaragod. It was the same Congress party who
had brutally beaten and killed Moyarath Sankaran, a former Congress
leader who had written the history of the Congress, as he left the
Congress party and joined the Communist movement. The ultra Left and
the Congress party had joined together to assassinate Comrade
Azheekkodan Raghavan. It is ironical that the Congress Party organises
Shanthi Yatra (peace march) led by its state president using the
Onchiyam incident, as the same Congress party is tainted with the
bloodstains of the numerous comrades like Kunhali, the Communist
leader of Eranad.   It is to be noted that Onchiyam is remembered in
history because of the heroic martyrs, where eight comrades were shot
dead and two comrades were killed in the police lockup, thanks to the
repressive and notorious the then Congress government.



The last Party state conference carried out all the proceedings
unanimously. It shows the growing unity in the state Party. The
conference culminated with greater confidence and enthusiasm. The 20th
Party Congress unitedly adopted its political tactical line and
ideological document. The united understanding of the Party on
political tactical line and ideological question inspired the entire
Party. The massive people’s participation in Thiruvananthapuram and
Kozhikkode related with the state conference and the Party Congress
annoyed the Party enemies. They were in search of new weapons against
the CPI(M).



In Onchiyam area during the last four years, a section of people under
the banner of ‘Revolutionary Marxist Party’ were engaged in damaging
the Party.  The Onchiyam Party which carries the legacy of the heroic
martyrs successfully prevailed over the challenges and dynamically led
the Party. Till date the anti-communists and their media maliciously
broadcast that the Party splitters are indulging in ideological
struggle and they are continuing with the same propaganda even today.
It is certain that those who are for the moment influenced by the
deceptive propaganda of the class enemies will realise their mistake
and rectify it. The state secretariat called upon all the Party
cadres, sympathisers and friends to come together to resist the
offensive of the Party enemies so as to defend the Party.




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