PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2007 ID-46881
.
[r;, ;)1J ; I CC?M tryst witft}I(])<}3 e:{, SCEZ!!! ";, :l'J ; I.
F r iends, .
02.02.2007.
It is a delicious irony that SEZ and ADB should become the bugbear fo r. the neo-bourgeois CPM. The party's agony is best .
illustrated in a laborious piece w ritten by itsgeneral secretary Prakash Karat in the party organ People's Democracy; to co nvince the.
cadre that after all the comrade brand of capitalism is slightly different from the commonplace capitalism being practiced by the mainstream political formations..
For its allies and the hardcore communists, there is something more than meets the eye withthe recent revisionist adventures undertaken by the CPM top brass. The CPM's first brush with power atthe centre has embarrassingly exposed th e Surjit brand of pragmatic power play, which his disciplesnow at the helm are pursuing with gusto. But this has take n a tragic toll on the public image andmorale of the party.That this was brought to a disturbingly sharp focus by the 25-day-long fast .
Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata is only a part of the stor y. Thbey .
open and acrimonious internecine war in the Kerala CPM between its own Chief Minister V.S.Achutanandan and the organisational wing led by Pinaray Vijayan has now become t h e mostentertaining political cock fight in Kerala history..
Kerala has for long been considered arguably the la bo ratory of the proletarian democracy. Herethe party and its partners are divid ed into two rival camps right up to the local committee level. There.
is an Intriguing court case being fought by the .
party for the ownership of EMS Namboodlripad's.
ancestral property, particularly his family temple. In another inst ance, according to a report in Indian.
xpress, E.K. Nayanar's daughter, who is a senior em ployee with the party daily Deshabhinani,found the atmospl1ere so unbearable that sl1e went on a long leave with the intention or quitting tt1ejob. Later sl1e was persuaded to rejoin duties, In th e .
face of widespread commotion the report.
generated. These are trivial compared to the public sparrings between the CM and the party secretary.
on Lavlin kickback inquiry, ADB loan, waste of public money for furnishing mm1sters' bungalows andinterference in police administration.In Kerala, Vljayan Is considered the darling of the elitist globalization lobby, like Buddhaaeb .
Bhattacharya Is the poster boy of pro-refot·m comrad s of West Bengal. The party may not admit th1s,but th,,. truth is the leadership has turned Marxism on Its head. The unqualified encomiums the 50-.
ca lled capitalist media Is showering on Marxian's Buddhist make-over Is pr·oof enough, 1f anybody was.
in doubt. Consequently the party Is inviting criticism frO.·I its own allies. The WC!st Bengal p rtne1·s or.
theaCPMreportare onein Thewith PioMarl"aneerta whenonly she60 perexposescentthela ndbanalitycouldofbethC!aChicquiref Minied st er 's cla1ms. According.
t:o .
Chie~ Minister had clairned with a in Sin g u r, though t h e.
.
~lourish that he was ready to h and over the <=n t ire 997.
a cre to the Tatas in the ~irst wee k o~ .January 2007. And the Chie~ Minister's other pet.
.
p rojects like two SEZ by Salirn Group, rne g a.
which need an acquisition o~ 10,000 acres o~ land.
have sparked o~~ a new w ave .
o~ protest. The question is, why should the government take upon.
itself the job of acquiring agricultural land for private sector industrializations? Conventional Marxian.
wisdom should have been that if somebody wants to set up industry, he should be asked to buy the.
land at market rate. There is no public cause involved in a private sector company setting up units for.
making profit, for the government to forcefully acquire and hand over multi-crop farm land. Pe·haps.
the CPM is atoning for its dubious anti-development politics of the past. Only two years ago, Kerala .
witnessed a CPM putsch when thousands of acres of cash crops owned by poor farmers were forcibly.
.
destroyed by CPM lumpens, under the leadership of Achutanandan, as a punishment for shifting from.
paddy cultivation to cash crops..
The Kerala factional feud on the ADB loan is sue is equally gripping. The party was all alongopposed to the ADB loan, but, the minister in the Left Front government, loyal to Vijayan, signed thedeal, without getting a clearance from the Chief Minister, who is openly opposed to ADB loan. Theminister did not take cabinet approval, but Vijayan is insisting that the dollar 221 .2 million loan forurban Infrastructure was cleared after discussing w ith the Chief Minister. In fact, the Chief Minister has.
practically no control over his own ministers who are taking orders from party 11eadquarters.The CPM dilemma is both exciting and understandable. It is the only party that ;n the past waslargely successful .
in ingraining its political manifesto into grassroots governance. In the normal.
circumstances they would have found common cause with Mamata Banerjee. The party has tripped and.
IS slipping in the cornpany of IMF, ADB votaries in the UPA, in the early s;ght of power on the national.
theatre. And the regular pilgrimages of Mumbai tycoons and western diplomats to the AKG Bhavanhave clearly swept the comrades off their feet. Th e wisdom of the Gita: that it is glorious to godown fighting for one's convictions, rather than embracing alien thoughts which would onlybring infamy, would be of some help to the comrades, in thE;.!,r.J!gQnizing hour of ideological.
taiIs l!i.n.,. .
Vande Mataram! Bharat Mata Ki Jail!.
Sd/-Anl<ita Bhattacharjce. V.P., ABVP, JNU. .
Sd/-Ra~~lwemlr·a Singh, .lt. Sccy. ABVP, JNU. .
.
PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2007 ID-46881
.
[r;, ;)1J ; I CC?M tryst witft}I(])<}3 e:{, SCEZ!!! ";, :l'J ; I.
F r iends, .
02.02.2007.
It is a delicious irony that SEZ and ADB should become the bugbear fo r. the neo-bourgeois CPM. The party's agony is best .
illustrated in a laborious piece w ritten by itsgeneral secretary Prakash Karat in the party organ People's Democracy; to co nvince the.
cadre that after all the comrade brand of capitalism is slightly different from the commonplace capitalism being practiced by the mainstream political formations..
For its allies and the hardcore communists, there is something more than meets the eye withthe recent revisionist adventures undertaken by the CPM top brass. The CPM's first brush with power atthe centre has embarrassingly exposed th e Surjit brand of pragmatic power play, which his disciplesnow at the helm are pursuing with gusto. But this has take n a tragic toll on the public image andmorale of the party.That this was brought to a disturbingly sharp focus by the 25-day-long fast .
Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata is only a part of the stor y. Thbey .
open and acrimonious internecine war in the Kerala CPM between its own Chief Minister V.S.Achutanandan and the organisational wing led by Pinaray Vijayan has now become t h e mostentertaining political cock fight in Kerala history..
Kerala has for long been considered arguably the la bo ratory of the proletarian democracy. Herethe party and its partners are divid ed into two rival camps right up to the local committee level. There.
is an Intriguing court case being fought by the .
party for the ownership of EMS Namboodlripad's.
ancestral property, particularly his family temple. In another inst ance, according to a report in Indian.
xpress, E.K. Nayanar's daughter, who is a senior em ployee with the party daily Deshabhinani,found the atmospl1ere so unbearable that sl1e went on a long leave with the intention or quitting tt1ejob. Later sl1e was persuaded to rejoin duties, In th e .
face of widespread commotion the report.
generated. These are trivial compared to the public sparrings between the CM and the party secretary.
on Lavlin kickback inquiry, ADB loan, waste of public money for furnishing mm1sters' bungalows andinterference in police administration.In Kerala, Vljayan Is considered the darling of the elitist globalization lobby, like Buddhaaeb .
Bhattacharya Is the poster boy of pro-refot·m comrad s of West Bengal. The party may not admit th1s,but th,,. truth is the leadership has turned Marxism on Its head. The unqualified encomiums the 50-.
ca lled capitalist media Is showering on Marxian's Buddhist make-over Is pr·oof enough, 1f anybody was.
in doubt. Consequently the party Is inviting criticism frO.·I its own allies. The WC!st Bengal p rtne1·s or.
theaCPMreportare onein Thewith PioMarl"aneerta whenonly she60 perexposescentthela ndbanalitycouldofbethC!aChicquiref Minied st er 's cla1ms. According.
t:o .
Chie~ Minister had clairned with a in Sin g u r, though t h e.
.
~lourish that he was ready to h and over the <=n t ire 997.
a cre to the Tatas in the ~irst wee k o~ .January 2007. And the Chie~ Minister's other pet.
.
p rojects like two SEZ by Salirn Group, rne g a.
which need an acquisition o~ 10,000 acres o~ land.
have sparked o~~ a new w ave .
o~ protest. The question is, why should the government take upon.
itself the job of acquiring agricultural land for private sector industrializations? Conventional Marxian.
wisdom should have been that if somebody wants to set up industry, he should be asked to buy the.
land at market rate. There is no public cause involved in a private sector company setting up units for.
making profit, for the government to forcefully acquire and hand over multi-crop farm land. Pe·haps.
the CPM is atoning for its dubious anti-development politics of the past. Only two years ago, Kerala .
witnessed a CPM putsch when thousands of acres of cash crops owned by poor farmers were forcibly.
.
destroyed by CPM lumpens, under the leadership of Achutanandan, as a punishment for shifting from.
paddy cultivation to cash crops..
The Kerala factional feud on the ADB loan is sue is equally gripping. The party was all alongopposed to the ADB loan, but, the minister in the Left Front government, loyal to Vijayan, signed thedeal, without getting a clearance from the Chief Minister, who is openly opposed to ADB loan. Theminister did not take cabinet approval, but Vijayan is insisting that the dollar 221 .2 million loan forurban Infrastructure was cleared after discussing w ith the Chief Minister. In fact, the Chief Minister has.
practically no control over his own ministers who are taking orders from party 11eadquarters.The CPM dilemma is both exciting and understandable. It is the only party that ;n the past waslargely successful .
in ingraining its political manifesto into grassroots governance. In the normal.
circumstances they would have found common cause with Mamata Banerjee. The party has tripped and.
IS slipping in the cornpany of IMF, ADB votaries in the UPA, in the early s;ght of power on the national.
theatre. And the regular pilgrimages of Mumbai tycoons and western diplomats to the AKG Bhavanhave clearly swept the comrades off their feet. Th e wisdom of the Gita: that it is glorious to godown fighting for one's convictions, rather than embracing alien thoughts which would onlybring infamy, would be of some help to the comrades, in thE;.!,r.J!gQnizing hour of ideological.
taiIs l!i.n.,. .
Vande Mataram! Bharat Mata Ki Jail!.
Sd/-Anl<ita Bhattacharjce. V.P., ABVP, JNU. .
Sd/-Ra~~lwemlr·a Singh, .lt. Sccy. ABVP, JNU. .
.