PaRCha - JNU - ABVP - 2000 ID-222
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AKHIL BHARATIYA VIDYARTHI PARISHAD .
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12.11.2000 .
Friends, .
In the last few years, the debate on nationalism has come to occupy centre-stage in JNU. The focus has gradually shifted from how one can be a 'good Communist' (a contradiction of sorts!) to how one can be a good nationalist. Though our arch-rivals have the full freedom to argue that they are better nationalists than we are, they must admit that it has been due to the ABVP that nationalism .
itself has been accepted as indispensible in this one-time bastion ol Communism. .
Now that the Communists have accepted the leg~imacy of nationalism, it would be worthwhile to see how nationalist they have been in the last seventy-five years of their (marginal) presence in India. Ever since its foundation in 1925, the CPI was always a stooge of the Communist International. Independence of judgement was alien to it and ~s policies for the nation were decided from far beyond the frontiers of the nation. It would perhaps be a travesty of truth to state that the communists constantly sabotaged the national movement, but it goes without saying that even when they came along w~h the national movement, it was not for the sake of the nation but for the sake of their masters abroad. In 1929, the declaration of the Communist International that the Indian national movement was bourgeois in character led the Communists to break away from the movement. They stayed aloof for six years, boycotting the Civil Disobedience Movement in the process. Since they are so obsessed with the RSS, we would like to inform them that the RSS founder, Dr. Hedgewar, had himself been imprisoned during this very movement. In 1935, they reconciled themselves with Indian nationalism for a short span of time. The reason behind this 'change of heart' was that, under the threat of fascism, the seventh congress of the Communist International ordered the Communists to forge an alliance w~h the lesser enemy (read the nationalist leadership) to counter the greater enemy (fascist Italy &Germany). When the Second World War broke out in 1939, they initially labelled it as an imperialist War of Britain, but when their 'Fatherland' Russia was compelled to join hands with Britain due to a sudden German attack, the Indian Communists decided to support Britain's war efforts in order to serve their Fatherland. They, now hailed the war as a 'People's War' and pledged their support to Britain. When the Qu~ India Movement was launched in 1942, they sabotaged it by becoming spies of the British government. For them, the interests of their 'Fatherland' were far more important than the struggle for the liberation of our motherland. .
The Communists supported or sabotaged the national movement on the dictates of their foreign masters. Since the nation never occupied centre-stage in their scheme of things, they can be considered anything but nationalists. The first pre-requisite of nationalism is that the nation should be considered paramount; national intsrest should have primacy over all other considerations. There can be a debate on what is good for the nation and what is not, but it has to be unconditionally accepted that the good of the nation is above everything else. Being guilty of keeping their imported ideology above the nation, the Communists have been, at best, de-national, and, at worst, anti-national. .
In the 1940s, the CPI openly supported the Pakistan demand of Jinnah. They argued that in regions where Muslims were in a majority, they consmuted a nationality and deserved the right of self-determination. Article after article was brought out in the 'People's War', the Communist mouth-piece, and resolutions passed by the CPI, in favour of Pakistan. It is ironical that those who claim to be secular today provided full ideological backing to the disintegration of a nation on religious lines! Not only was the edifice of the nation .
demolished in this way, but religious tensions were also created in the name of self-determination. .
After independence. the Communists declared that India's independence was fake and gave a call for an armed uprising. Their armed rebellion in Telangana was crushed and the CPI was banned in several states. The ban was lifted only when the CPI agreed to participate democratically in the elections of 1952. Despite having ostensibly reconciled to a democratic, independent India, the CPI failed to be unanimous about its acceptance of our democratic polity. The party split in 1964, and the CPI and CPI(M) were born. While the CPI accepted parliamentary democracy, the CPI(M) was of the view that the overthrow of the Indian State and the Indian Constitution was the only path to socialism. They would use the Indian constitution and parliamentary democracy as tools on the road to power, and discard these once they succeeded 1n wresting power. Ironically, the CPI(M) and their student-wing, the SFI, oppose the review of the Constitution, even though the present government has made public its adherence to the basic structure of the Constitution. Apart from these instances, the Communist treachery in 1962 and the CPI support to the 1975 Emergency are well-known facts. Even during the Kargil conflict of 1999, all that they did was to demoralise our armed forces and countrymen through their articles and speeches. This being the past of the Communists, it goes without saying that theirs 'has been a decidedly negative influence on .
Indian nationalism. nationalism. We call upon the student community to reject the opportunistic anti-nationals and rally behind the forces of cultural VANDE MATARAM I .
President Vice President CENTRAL PANEL Sandeep Kr. Mahapatra ShiV Shakti Nath Bakshi .
Gen.Secy. Jt.Secy. Uma Shankar Singh Makhan Saikla .
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SIS sss SLL&CS .
Amit Singh AlokSingh Neha Jha .
Anshu Joshi Oeepak Singh Prltish Asthana .
Prafulla Ketkar Oipankar Bose Satlsh Klshore .
Mukesh Kr. Mishra Michelle Patricia Peters Shlvkant Singh .
Parthasarathi Behra Suresh Chandra Mahakunda Vi jay Kumar .
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PUBLIC MEETING TONIGHT : VENUE-JHELUM MESS, TIME 9:30 P.M. .
SPEAKER : MUKHTAR ABBAS, NAQVI, Gen. Secy. BJP, Former M.P. Lok Sabha .
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Sd/-.
Vyatok .
Central Campaign Coordinator .
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PaRCha - JNU - ABVP - 2000 ID-222
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.
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AKHIL BHARATIYA VIDYARTHI PARISHAD .
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12.11.2000 .
Friends, .
In the last few years, the debate on nationalism has come to occupy centre-stage in JNU. The focus has gradually shifted from how one can be a 'good Communist' (a contradiction of sorts!) to how one can be a good nationalist. Though our arch-rivals have the full freedom to argue that they are better nationalists than we are, they must admit that it has been due to the ABVP that nationalism .
itself has been accepted as indispensible in this one-time bastion ol Communism. .
Now that the Communists have accepted the leg~imacy of nationalism, it would be worthwhile to see how nationalist they have been in the last seventy-five years of their (marginal) presence in India. Ever since its foundation in 1925, the CPI was always a stooge of the Communist International. Independence of judgement was alien to it and ~s policies for the nation were decided from far beyond the frontiers of the nation. It would perhaps be a travesty of truth to state that the communists constantly sabotaged the national movement, but it goes without saying that even when they came along w~h the national movement, it was not for the sake of the nation but for the sake of their masters abroad. In 1929, the declaration of the Communist International that the Indian national movement was bourgeois in character led the Communists to break away from the movement. They stayed aloof for six years, boycotting the Civil Disobedience Movement in the process. Since they are so obsessed with the RSS, we would like to inform them that the RSS founder, Dr. Hedgewar, had himself been imprisoned during this very movement. In 1935, they reconciled themselves with Indian nationalism for a short span of time. The reason behind this 'change of heart' was that, under the threat of fascism, the seventh congress of the Communist International ordered the Communists to forge an alliance w~h the lesser enemy (read the nationalist leadership) to counter the greater enemy (fascist Italy &Germany). When the Second World War broke out in 1939, they initially labelled it as an imperialist War of Britain, but when their 'Fatherland' Russia was compelled to join hands with Britain due to a sudden German attack, the Indian Communists decided to support Britain's war efforts in order to serve their Fatherland. They, now hailed the war as a 'People's War' and pledged their support to Britain. When the Qu~ India Movement was launched in 1942, they sabotaged it by becoming spies of the British government. For them, the interests of their 'Fatherland' were far more important than the struggle for the liberation of our motherland. .
The Communists supported or sabotaged the national movement on the dictates of their foreign masters. Since the nation never occupied centre-stage in their scheme of things, they can be considered anything but nationalists. The first pre-requisite of nationalism is that the nation should be considered paramount; national intsrest should have primacy over all other considerations. There can be a debate on what is good for the nation and what is not, but it has to be unconditionally accepted that the good of the nation is above everything else. Being guilty of keeping their imported ideology above the nation, the Communists have been, at best, de-national, and, at worst, anti-national. .
In the 1940s, the CPI openly supported the Pakistan demand of Jinnah. They argued that in regions where Muslims were in a majority, they consmuted a nationality and deserved the right of self-determination. Article after article was brought out in the 'People's War', the Communist mouth-piece, and resolutions passed by the CPI, in favour of Pakistan. It is ironical that those who claim to be secular today provided full ideological backing to the disintegration of a nation on religious lines! Not only was the edifice of the nation .
demolished in this way, but religious tensions were also created in the name of self-determination. .
After independence. the Communists declared that India's independence was fake and gave a call for an armed uprising. Their armed rebellion in Telangana was crushed and the CPI was banned in several states. The ban was lifted only when the CPI agreed to participate democratically in the elections of 1952. Despite having ostensibly reconciled to a democratic, independent India, the CPI failed to be unanimous about its acceptance of our democratic polity. The party split in 1964, and the CPI and CPI(M) were born. While the CPI accepted parliamentary democracy, the CPI(M) was of the view that the overthrow of the Indian State and the Indian Constitution was the only path to socialism. They would use the Indian constitution and parliamentary democracy as tools on the road to power, and discard these once they succeeded 1n wresting power. Ironically, the CPI(M) and their student-wing, the SFI, oppose the review of the Constitution, even though the present government has made public its adherence to the basic structure of the Constitution. Apart from these instances, the Communist treachery in 1962 and the CPI support to the 1975 Emergency are well-known facts. Even during the Kargil conflict of 1999, all that they did was to demoralise our armed forces and countrymen through their articles and speeches. This being the past of the Communists, it goes without saying that theirs 'has been a decidedly negative influence on .
Indian nationalism. nationalism. We call upon the student community to reject the opportunistic anti-nationals and rally behind the forces of cultural VANDE MATARAM I .
President Vice President CENTRAL PANEL Sandeep Kr. Mahapatra ShiV Shakti Nath Bakshi .
Gen.Secy. Jt.Secy. Uma Shankar Singh Makhan Saikla .
.
SIS sss SLL&CS .
Amit Singh AlokSingh Neha Jha .
Anshu Joshi Oeepak Singh Prltish Asthana .
Prafulla Ketkar Oipankar Bose Satlsh Klshore .
Mukesh Kr. Mishra Michelle Patricia Peters Shlvkant Singh .
Parthasarathi Behra Suresh Chandra Mahakunda Vi jay Kumar .
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PUBLIC MEETING TONIGHT : VENUE-JHELUM MESS, TIME 9:30 P.M. .
SPEAKER : MUKHTAR ABBAS, NAQVI, Gen. Secy. BJP, Former M.P. Lok Sabha .
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Sd/-.
Vyatok .
Central Campaign Coordinator .
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