Opinion View from the right: Communal Times
The CPI says that power in the country has been “taken over by a combination of corporate capital, rightist ideology and worst form of communalism.”
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The CPI says that power in the country has been “taken over by a combination of corporate capital, rightist ideology and worst form of communalism.”
Talking about incidents of communal violence, the CPM’s People’s Democracy says the “communal poison being spread by the various tentacles of the RSS [is] leading to an increase in the physical attacks against places of worship belonging to religious minorities.” The editorial claims, “The whipping up of such communal intolerance is creating an atmosphere permitting horrendous physical attacks against practitioners of minority religions in the country… The latest such incident was the despicable rape of a septuagenarian nun of the Convent of Jesus and Mary at Ranaghat in the Nadia district of West Bengal recently… Coming in the backdrop of mounting attacks against religious minorities, this incident shows the grave extent to which the dangers to our country’s unity and people’s social harmony are being mounted…”
The editorial talks about the RSS conclave in Nagpur last week, which it claims took decisions that carry forward the “communal agenda in a multi-pronged manner”. It adds, “The RSS has unequivocally declared at this meet, once again, that there are no religious minorities in India. According to it, all Indians are ‘culturally, nationally and DNA-wise Hindus’…”
RIGHTIST AGENDA
The CPI’s 22nd party congress began on March 25, and its New Age says that power in the country has been “taken over by a combination of corporate capital, rightist ideology and worst form of communalism.”
The journal argues, “There is [a] clear-cut division of labour among three components of [the] ruling dispensation to advance their respective interests. The corporate capital is dictating terms and the entire [Narendra] Modi government is at their disposal. The prime minister’s office (PMO) is [the] headquarters from where everything possible is being done to shower concessions on [the] capitalists (sic) class, both native and international… Foreign policy of a government is generally an extension of its domestic policies, particularly its economic policies. It applies in this case also. The Modi government is succumbing to the pressure of American imperialists and there is clear shift in foreign policy…”
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It adds, “If corporate capital is in command in the economic sphere, the RSS… is directly interfering in the functioning of the government. Unlike the Vajpayee regime, Modi has given free hand to Sangh Parivar to dictate policies, particularly in the spheres of education and culture…”
KILLERS IN UNIFORM
Terming the acquittal of all the accused police personnel in the Hashimpura custodial massacre case of 1987 as a “shameful injustice”, the CPI(ML)’s ML Update says it is a “comment on the callous and communal rot that pervades India’s politics and police machinery and the utter failure of its criminal justice systems.”
“…28 years after the massacre, a Delhi court has concluded that there is insufficient evidence to convict anyone. How is it possible? …It is obvious that the acquittal has been made possible by systematic destruction and withholding of evidence by the state machinery,” the editorial says.
“The impunity enjoyed by killers in uniform who perpetrate custodial murders, and perpetrators of communal and caste massacres continues… Can India be considered a working democracy if its police force can abduct and kill 42 men and dump them in a canal, and go scot-free?” it asks.
Compiled by Ruhi Tewari.
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