PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2008 ID-4233
.
24.7.08 .
UPA Has Won a Tainted Trust Vote-.
It Must Now Be Defeated by the Might of People's Struggles .
.
Amidst widespread allegations and counter-allegations ofhorse-trading and an unprecedented televised .
flashing ofcash right inside Parliament, the parliamentary showdown over the nucleardeal has ended rathe .
tamely in favour ofthe Congress.The final tally ofnumbers indicates cross-voting or calculated abstention r .
absence by nearly two dozen opposition MPs,giving the government a total strength of275 votes a lead of~~.
.
' .
-.
votes overthe combined opposition. .
While the lure ofmoney and the spoils ~foffice ob~iously_played ~hugerole in detenniningthe .
.
numbers,the real reason fortheCongress v1ctory certa1nly lay 1n the ruhng classes' essentially united .
commitmenttothe cause ofstrategic partnership with the US. Notonlydidthe UPA expose its true .
known loyalty toWashington. In the course of his speech, Advani reiterated his party's abiding commitmentcolours as the Unashamed Partners ofAmerica, the BJP too provided ample evidence ofits well-.
to strategic ties with the US and promised only to 'renegotiate' the deal on being voted to power, ostensibly to .
make sure that India had the leeway fora possible Pokhran-111. .
.
The Congress conveniently delinked the nuclear deal from its real essenceofbeing thecentre-.
piece ofNew Delhi's growing strategic partnership with Washington, projecting itas justanother .
innocentidea forelectricity generation. The HydeActwhich explicitlydemands compulsorycongruence .
ofIndian foreign policy with the global interests ofthe US and annual certification ofthe same bythe .
\JS President was conveniently glossed overasjustanotherAmericanActwith no adverse Implication .
forthe future ofIndia. The marginal contribution ofnuclear power to India's overall energy matrix-it accounts .
for less than 3% aftersixty years ofIndependence and is projected to go up only to 7°/o by 2020-was hugely .
inflated to project the nuclear deal as a sure passport to an illuminated future and the concerns expressed by .
.
sizable sections of India's own nuclear scientists were simply brushed aside. Indeed, the word imperialism .
was virtually absent in the proceedings ofthe two-day debate and spokesmen and defenders ofthe government .
revelled in the presumed glow ofIndia's new-found status as ajunior strategic partner ofthe US. The Congress may have~won the so-called trust vote in parliament, but in the process it has , ; . .
immensely exposed itselfand the rot in the system. The real battle in the court ofthe people has just .
i · .
begun and fiasco justconcluded in Parliament must be used as useful fuel to stoke the fire ofpopularanger. .
To strengthen the resistance ofthe people and the countryto the growing'imperialistoffensive .
and the pro-imperialisttreachery ofthe ruling classes, the anti-imperialistforces and especiallythe .
Left ranks mustdrawappropriate lessonsfrom the mosttelling andeducativeexperience ofthe UPA-.
Leftalliance. The CPI(M)-Ied Left provided crucial support to the UPAgovemmentsince its inception to July 9, .
2008. The alliance was initially sought to be justified in the name ofthe political compulsion ofkeeping the BJP .
.
)Ut of power, and subsequently the CPI(M) leadership began claiming a series ofadditional gains including .
'owing down of nee-liberal reforms, passage of pro-people pro-poor legislations and even success in .
.
1- 1pping the UPA from going ahead with the operationalisation ofthe nuclear deal, while, ofcourse, hiding the .
't that they have voted with the UPA to pass the dangerous and pro-imperialist Patents Amendments a_nd.
.
All these claims now stand exposed as empty self-deceptive boasts-unaffordably expens1ve.
.
~Acts! .
ons that have only allowed the Congress to have its way while allowing the CPI(M) to have its say! Also .
_forces at the last few years, exposing the failure of UPA-CPI(M)'s "strategy "of"keeping the co~mu~al.
\he BJP has come to power in state after state,and it is now crystal clear that the operatJonahsatJon ofthe :1s never halted even as the CPI(M) kept exchanging notes with the government. ~ed itwas the forces like the SP RJD and DMK (the CPIM's trusted allies}, thatenabled the .
liS to sail through the trustvote, ~roviding a telling example ofthe utterfutility oftheCPI(M)'s .
1d practice ofthe 'secularfront'.All these years the CPI(M) delinked 'secularism, from democ~cy nperialism and grounded its entire tactical line around the single-point agenda ofsomehow keepang ) \ .
1t of power. The line has now boomeranged on the CPI(M) with the Congr~ssand mostof .
l "aunch allies-onlythe otherdaythe CPI(M)'s Coimbato~eCongress lden~fledtheSPasa .
.~eakenlng ~e.
l. .
·ce and a key component ofa third front -now accus1ng the CPI(M)~fJsel The allegations are coming notjust from outside butalsofrom within. While the maverick minister Subhas Chakraborty, a known Jyoti Basu protege and newly. induct~ member~fthe engal secretariat, has accused the CPI(M) centre ofdeviating from the partyline adonted m .
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.
PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2008 ID-4233
.
24.7.08 .
UPA Has Won a Tainted Trust Vote-.
It Must Now Be Defeated by the Might of People's Struggles .
.
Amidst widespread allegations and counter-allegations ofhorse-trading and an unprecedented televised .
flashing ofcash right inside Parliament, the parliamentary showdown over the nucleardeal has ended rathe .
tamely in favour ofthe Congress.The final tally ofnumbers indicates cross-voting or calculated abstention r .
absence by nearly two dozen opposition MPs,giving the government a total strength of275 votes a lead of~~.
.
' .
-.
votes overthe combined opposition. .
While the lure ofmoney and the spoils ~foffice ob~iously_played ~hugerole in detenniningthe .
.
numbers,the real reason fortheCongress v1ctory certa1nly lay 1n the ruhng classes' essentially united .
commitmenttothe cause ofstrategic partnership with the US. Notonlydidthe UPA expose its true .
known loyalty toWashington. In the course of his speech, Advani reiterated his party's abiding commitmentcolours as the Unashamed Partners ofAmerica, the BJP too provided ample evidence ofits well-.
to strategic ties with the US and promised only to 'renegotiate' the deal on being voted to power, ostensibly to .
make sure that India had the leeway fora possible Pokhran-111. .
.
The Congress conveniently delinked the nuclear deal from its real essenceofbeing thecentre-.
piece ofNew Delhi's growing strategic partnership with Washington, projecting itas justanother .
innocentidea forelectricity generation. The HydeActwhich explicitlydemands compulsorycongruence .
ofIndian foreign policy with the global interests ofthe US and annual certification ofthe same bythe .
\JS President was conveniently glossed overasjustanotherAmericanActwith no adverse Implication .
forthe future ofIndia. The marginal contribution ofnuclear power to India's overall energy matrix-it accounts .
for less than 3% aftersixty years ofIndependence and is projected to go up only to 7°/o by 2020-was hugely .
inflated to project the nuclear deal as a sure passport to an illuminated future and the concerns expressed by .
.
sizable sections of India's own nuclear scientists were simply brushed aside. Indeed, the word imperialism .
was virtually absent in the proceedings ofthe two-day debate and spokesmen and defenders ofthe government .
revelled in the presumed glow ofIndia's new-found status as ajunior strategic partner ofthe US. The Congress may have~won the so-called trust vote in parliament, but in the process it has , ; . .
immensely exposed itselfand the rot in the system. The real battle in the court ofthe people has just .
i · .
begun and fiasco justconcluded in Parliament must be used as useful fuel to stoke the fire ofpopularanger. .
To strengthen the resistance ofthe people and the countryto the growing'imperialistoffensive .
and the pro-imperialisttreachery ofthe ruling classes, the anti-imperialistforces and especiallythe .
Left ranks mustdrawappropriate lessonsfrom the mosttelling andeducativeexperience ofthe UPA-.
Leftalliance. The CPI(M)-Ied Left provided crucial support to the UPAgovemmentsince its inception to July 9, .
2008. The alliance was initially sought to be justified in the name ofthe political compulsion ofkeeping the BJP .
.
)Ut of power, and subsequently the CPI(M) leadership began claiming a series ofadditional gains including .
'owing down of nee-liberal reforms, passage of pro-people pro-poor legislations and even success in .
.
1- 1pping the UPA from going ahead with the operationalisation ofthe nuclear deal, while, ofcourse, hiding the .
't that they have voted with the UPA to pass the dangerous and pro-imperialist Patents Amendments a_nd.
.
All these claims now stand exposed as empty self-deceptive boasts-unaffordably expens1ve.
.
~Acts! .
ons that have only allowed the Congress to have its way while allowing the CPI(M) to have its say! Also .
_forces at the last few years, exposing the failure of UPA-CPI(M)'s "strategy "of"keeping the co~mu~al.
\he BJP has come to power in state after state,and it is now crystal clear that the operatJonahsatJon ofthe :1s never halted even as the CPI(M) kept exchanging notes with the government. ~ed itwas the forces like the SP RJD and DMK (the CPIM's trusted allies}, thatenabled the .
liS to sail through the trustvote, ~roviding a telling example ofthe utterfutility oftheCPI(M)'s .
1d practice ofthe 'secularfront'.All these years the CPI(M) delinked 'secularism, from democ~cy nperialism and grounded its entire tactical line around the single-point agenda ofsomehow keepang ) \ .
1t of power. The line has now boomeranged on the CPI(M) with the Congr~ssand mostof .
l "aunch allies-onlythe otherdaythe CPI(M)'s Coimbato~eCongress lden~fledtheSPasa .
.~eakenlng ~e.
l. .
·ce and a key component ofa third front -now accus1ng the CPI(M)~fJsel The allegations are coming notjust from outside butalsofrom within. While the maverick minister Subhas Chakraborty, a known Jyoti Basu protege and newly. induct~ member~fthe engal secretariat, has accused the CPI(M) centre ofdeviating from the partyline adonted m .
---...._ .
.