The Congress, if it wants to do damage limitation, should on its own renounce its association with the Left parties & own up to having made a serious error of judgment in forming a Government with their support three years back. While any other combination is tolerable, during the forthcoming elections any major party which allies itself with the Left should be dumped in the heaps by the electorate, if the democratic process is to remain healthy & mature in India. One of the significant election pledges of any major party fighting the elections should be that they will bring to book the Left parties particularly the CPI-M & the CPI for their following acts of anti-nationalism. a) Playing a dishonourable & dubious role during the IInd World War and during the final years of the country's Independence struggle. b) Causing long-standing damage to the state of W. Bengal owing to flight of capital and loss of jobs caused by their hostile acts against industries when they first came to power. c) Colluding overtly & covertly with a foreign power repeatedly over the decades thus acting against the national interests of the state of India. d) Amassment of disproportionate wealth by some leaders and double & hypocritical standards adopted by some others. The judiciary should closely & impartially examine the underlying facts behind these serious allegations and if found to be true, ban the parties for life and imprison its prominent leaders for sustained anti-national activities.
RE:The chicanery & anti-nationalism of the Left
by shiva on Aug 21, 2007 07:11 AM Permalink
R M
Communism was a good ideology, but it never worked anywhere. In terms of accumulating wealth, China has even beaten US in the game. In the land supposed to swear by communism, there are 150,000 individuals with over $5 million personal wealth and growing.
West Bengal & Kerala were stripped bare by the form of communism practised. Any initiative was disabled by the party, only interested in distributing anarchy and resultant poverty. Keralites left by the lakhs to Middle East worked in conditions barely keeping body and soul together. While the industrialists were were spending all their time in sorting labour issues, the overseas Keralites had to support relatives back home. It was ironical that the leftists were preventing any employment, while the enterprising had to slog without any iota of regulations in inhospitable lands.
I have seen first hand how the govt infested by the unions functioned. The downtrodden used to walk miles to get things done, while the govt "servants" were out on strikes and party work, drawing full pay. Once, I met an old man, shirtless and about to faint trying to cancel a bus jopurney for his sick daughter and get a refund. The seats were empty and I tried to get some attention. The union leader told me to mind my business. I pleaded and was told no refund as time has passed. Only on my willingness to come out with the few rupees did he relent.
That was communism at work and things might have changed, hopefully.
