Sunday, January 07, 2007

"OUTsiders" are those who are not members of an "official" political party- CPI(M) lament over their past mistakes




International Post, January 7

CPI(M) now lament over their past mistakes of having taken to militant political struggles in 60s and 70s.

Today the chief minister of West Bengal, a politburo member avowedly admits in the annual conference in IIM - Calcutta to their past misconceptions on political miltancies.

"It's a shame that the word "Gherao" or forceful confinement that has now found its place in Oxford Dictionary is our (Communists') contribution", he said.

Another CP(I)M politburo member, Binay Konar, a (ex?)- firebrand peasant leader made contradictory remarks during an interview in a private Bengali TV Channel.

"Those farmers of Nandigram are all miscreants and scoundrels. We'll encircle them first and then, kill them all", he rattles.

"Mostly, outsiders are responsible for all this deliberate vandalism. They killed our men" ( the farmers who are losing their lands), Konar runs amok.

Who wouldn't be considered as an outsider in political struggle?

"Those who belong to any registered and official political party, such as CPI(M), Indian Congress...", the veteran CPI(M) leader pitches.

Henceforth, anybody willing to sympathise actively with a people's movement will have to, first, register his/her name to some "organised and official" political party or the person will be coerced to silence in CPI(M)-ist democratic polity.

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