he recent mass upsurge against the CPI(M)’s anti- people policies in Lalgarh & other places has caught on in a big way in West Bengal. More trouble lies ahead...
In the last Lok Sabha elections the Communists were left with merely 24 seats –down from their previous tally of 61. In West Bengal – once the Red Citadel – the CPI(M)’s share of MPs dropped vertically, from 27 to just 9. It lagged behind the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Congress in over 200 of the 294 assembly segments. Indeed the outlook is so bleak that in the 13th West Bengal Legislative Assembly polls in 2011, even the CPI (M)’s friends expect the once impregnable fortress to collapse as the Berlin Wall did in 1989!
Yes, it is true. The party seems pretty nearly over. The CPI(M) is tottering everywhere – far beyond the Bengal-Bihar-Orissa borders: a fact that went uncommented till the 15th Lok Sabha polls. And now we need no comment. It’s staring us right in our faces. In Khejuri (East Midnapore district) – ever since the people’s revolt started on June 8 – arms are being recovered almost every day.
The CPI(M) had once called Khejuri – till the mid twentieth century a stronghold of the Gandhians– Bengal’s Leningrad. Former Union minister and freedom fighter Abha Maiti hailed from this block. But post the 1990’s the place came to be referred as the communists’ ‘Liberated Zone’, leaving space for no other political party. Indeed, even LF allies were not allowed to function there.
During the Nandigram agitation it was from Khejuri that the CPI(M)’s armed militia randomly sprayed bullets at innocent agitators. The infamous Janani brick kiln, the bunker of the CPI(M)’s armed militia and hired killers, still exists. The CBI arrested ten armed CPI(M) cadres from there three days after the Nandigram massacre on March 14, 2007 – coincidentally Karl Marx’s 124th death anniversary.
In the last Lok Sabha elections the Communists were left with merely 24 seats –down from their previous tally of 61. In West Bengal – once the Red Citadel – the CPI(M)’s share of MPs dropped vertically, from 27 to just 9. It lagged behind the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Congress in over 200 of the 294 assembly segments. Indeed the outlook is so bleak that in the 13th West Bengal Legislative Assembly polls in 2011, even the CPI (M)’s friends expect the once impregnable fortress to collapse as the Berlin Wall did in 1989!
Yes, it is true. The party seems pretty nearly over. The CPI(M) is tottering everywhere – far beyond the Bengal-Bihar-Orissa borders: a fact that went uncommented till the 15th Lok Sabha polls. And now we need no comment. It’s staring us right in our faces. In Khejuri (East Midnapore district) – ever since the people’s revolt started on June 8 – arms are being recovered almost every day.
The CPI(M) had once called Khejuri – till the mid twentieth century a stronghold of the Gandhians– Bengal’s Leningrad. Former Union minister and freedom fighter Abha Maiti hailed from this block. But post the 1990’s the place came to be referred as the communists’ ‘Liberated Zone’, leaving space for no other political party. Indeed, even LF allies were not allowed to function there.
During the Nandigram agitation it was from Khejuri that the CPI(M)’s armed militia randomly sprayed bullets at innocent agitators. The infamous Janani brick kiln, the bunker of the CPI(M)’s armed militia and hired killers, still exists. The CBI arrested ten armed CPI(M) cadres from there three days after the Nandigram massacre on March 14, 2007 – coincidentally Karl Marx’s 124th death anniversary.
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri
and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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