Why left should be history
As a system of government, communism is dead or dying, but as a system of ideas, its future looks secure in the country. UTPAL KUMAR looks into the past and examines why the demise of the Left should be celebratedIt took more than 20 years for Indian communists to experience the tremors of the collapse of the Berlin Wall. While their counterparts across the world stood discredited, their thuggery exposed beyond redemption, comrades in India continued to bask under unprecedented glory as late as 2008. Even today, when they have lost their strongest bastion in West Bengal after 34 years of incessant (mis)rule, there is no dearth of Marxist sympathisers, bemoaning the loss of the ‘secular’, Left space in the country.
This is astounding, if not outlandishly outrageous. No data, no record, not even a shred of evidence corroborates this assumption. Yet, it’s a gospel truth that Left supporters ardently believe in. A State which the Left ruled for well over three decades may crawl at the bottom of all development indices, but communists remain spokespersons of the country’s economic policy. The minorities in Bengal may be the worst-off compared to other States, including those ruled by the ‘communal’ BJP, yet the Left pretends to be the self-appointed guardian of secularism. It may regularly pay homage to Stalin — one of the most heinous mass murderers of the last century, one who inspired Hitler to copy his Gulag experiments at Auschwitz and elsewhere — yet the Left has patented the right to parade as the sole ‘conscience-keeper’ of the country. And, yes, the Left’s habit of being historically on the wrong side of patriotism might be a crime in other countries, but here in India it is ironically seen as a badge of conscience — much like an Orwellian world where war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength.
Today, as the Left remains in power in only one State, Tripura, which will go to polls in 2013, and where the credit primarily goes to the personal integrity of Chief Minister Manik Sarkar rather than ideology, a few questions need to be answered: Is the Left now history? If so, should we celebrate it, or hold a condolence meet? And, will the decline of political affiliations associated with communism end the reverential position Marxist ideals hold in the country?
IS LEFT HISTORY NOW?
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5.3rd article of the constitution would be amended.
6.To reconstruct the NEC with equal representatives with equal representation of the states of the north- east. The chairman would be elected through rotation. The act of 1972 would be amended.
7.The Indian foreign policy would be based on the principle of cooperation between neighbouring countries. There would be international cooperation under the article of 51 of the Indian constitution.
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