People's
Democracy
(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of
India (Marxist) No. 06
February 09, 2003
(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of
India (Marxist) |
Vol.
XXVII No. 06 February 09, 2003 |
B Prasant
ACCORDING
to
RSS
sar-sanghchalak,
K
Sudarshan,
the
CPI
(M)
constitutes
the
principle
impediment
on
the
path
of
Hindutva’s
progress
nationwide.
As
for
VHP
supremo
Praveen
Togadia,
he
would
like
to
see
Article
356
implemented
immediately
in
Bengal
so
as
to
allow
the
Hindus
to
raise
their
head.
These
and
other
nuggets
of
wisdom
dropped
from
the
duo
in
their
brief
sojourn
in
Bengal
over
January
20-22.
State
secretary
of
the
CPI
(M),
Anil
Biswas
and
Bengal
chief
minister,
Buddhadeb
Bhattacharjee
said
that
however
much
the
votaries
of
religious
fundamentalism
tried
to
rant
and
rave
about
their
brand
of
Hindutva,
the
conscious
people
of
Bengal
would
chose
to
ignore
them.
Bhattacharjee
said
that
the
Togadias
and
the
Sudarshans,
“unwanted
guests
in
Bengal,”
would
come
and
go,
but
the
state
would
continue
to
adhere
to
its
cherished
tradition
of
democracy
and
secularism.
Speaking
from
a
saffron-decorated
dais
that
was
shaped
like
a rath,
to
a
modest
gathering
of
lathi-wielding
men
and
boys
in
brown-belted
khaki
shorts,
black
peaked
caps,
and
white
shirts
at
the
Shahid
Minar
maidan
in
Kolkata
on
January
22,
Sudarshan
chose
to
attack
the
Left
in
general
and
the
CPI
(M)
in
particular
throughout
his
speech.
Calling
the
CPI
(M)
a
party
of
Marx-putras,
Sudarshan
said
that
“the
Party
members
and
supporters
would
not
call
themselves
Hindus,
and
this
is
the
reason
why
there
have
been
so
many
riots
in
the
country.”
Sudarshan
also
came
down
heavily
on
the
concept
of
multicultural
and
multinational
states
and
said
that
such
concepts
emanated
from
the
“brains
of
a
few
Moscow-and-Beijing-
trained
Indian
Communists
alone.”
The
RSS
chief
who
remained
grim
visaged
for
the
length
of
his
two-and-a-half
hour-long
speech,
also
came
out
with
his
analysis
of
the
Gujarat
poll
outcome.
The
English-speaking
media,
said
Sudarshan,
had
enraged
the
Hindus
of
Gujarat
by
supporting
the
Muslims,
and
the
poll
results
reflected
the
“avenging
mood”
of
the
Hindus.
Facing
flagging
fortunes,
now
more
than
ever,
and
presiding
over
a
deeply
divided
house,
Trinamul
Congress
leader
Mamata
Banerjee
has
readily
agreed
to
the
RSS-VHP
chiefs’
call
for
the
imposition
of
Article
356
in
Bengal
despite
the
very
cold
shoulder
she
has
received
of
late
from
her
“now-off,
now-on”
ally
the
BJP.
