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by neelima neelima on Jul 23, 2008 10:09 PM

This entire issue of expelling the Speaker hinges on the communist ideology, in which personal opinion has no place and opposition is not tolerated. We have to only look at the erstwhile USSR and China to understand how the opposition is destroyed even at a hint. Wherever it is, the ideology remains the same: no opportunity for personal decisions and any kind of opposition.

When we got independence, there was a fear in Western countries that India, being poor, might tilt towards Communism. After 1949, China has continuously tried by covert and overt means to bring Communism into India. It also held India and the Indian Prime Minister responsible for being unable to bring other feeble Asian and African countries into Communism, as India provided them leadership under Non-Aligned Nations. China, even today, cannot fully understand that Communism cannot rule India and hence, the effort through Maoism.
We should be grateful to our leaders for firmly swaying India away from this terrible ideology and also for showing the way to other under-developed countries that democracy can suit them.

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