Opinion Anti-communal convention
CPM has stressed that foiling communal forces is an essential prerequisite".
Having brought 14 parties together on a common platform against communalism,the CPM has stressed that foiling communal forces is an essential prerequisite for an alternative policy trajectory it has been advancing. CPM weekly Peoples Democracy notes that such anti-communalism conventions will be organised across the country in coming days,signalling a plan to advance the campaign and give it a shape as the Lok Sabha election approaches. As the convention was in progress,messages kept pouring in from various parties and groups from across the country that they would like to be associated with such campaigns in the future. The presence of a UPA ally,the Nationalist Congress Party,also sent the message that the parties represented at the convention was not a closed list,an editorial says.
The editorial is critical of the BJPs attempt to appropriate Sardar Vallabhai Patel,who had banned the RSS following the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. The misappropriation of Sardar Patel,it says,is part of the overall objective of re-writing Indian history in order to straightjacket it into a monolithic record of the glorification of the Hindu Nation. Such an effort is integral to advance the RSS project of the metamorphosis of the modern Indian secular democratic republic into their version of Hindu Rashtra,it adds.
Khabardar vs Hunkaar
The CPI(ML) weekly,ML Update,examines the Khabardar rally it organised in Patna three days after serial blasts rocked the city. The party had to make a last minute change to the rally venue after the blasts. An editorial states that the postponement of its rally was almost a foregone conclusion as the blasts occupied media attention and Bihar seemed to have been plunged into terror and panic. But the rural poor of Bihar and the CPI(ML) network spread across the state once again rose to the occasion and displayed tremendous tenacity and fearless resolve to make the rally an astounding success.
For those who thought that Modis Hunkaar was the ultimate roar of an aggressive saffron sweep in Bihar,the Khabardar rally has sent out a strong message of resolute resistance… [it called for a massive mobilisation of the justice-loving people of Bihar to secure justice for the massacre survivors of Bathani Tola,Bathe and Miyanpur, it says.
Mock investigation
An editorial in CPI journal New Age focuses on the JPC report on 2G spectrum licence allocation. It argues that the manner in which the JPC submitted a report to the speaker of the Lok Sabha with seven dissent notes has turned the investigation of independent Indias biggest ever scam into a mockery.
It alleges that the UPA has tried to belittle the findings of the CAG from the beginning. From all the documents available to the public through media,it is evident that the PMO was fully involved in the illegality of allotment… The main accused,A. Raja… has said that all the decisions regarding the allotment and procedures were taken with the consent and endorsement of the PMO. Raja was ready to appear before the JPC and reveal everything. [But the chairman of the committee,P.C. Chacko did not allow Raja to appear before the JPC… Despite all talk of accountability… the sole task the JPC has performed is to generate a fabricated ‘clean chit for the prime minister that nobody is going to believe, it claims.
Compiled by Manoj C.G.
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