Nandigram showing us the way

Hindol Bhattacharjee


It is not a matter of confusion now that CPM is not at all a Communist party, it has become a mass party and has every kind of notions of fascism which is being expressed in different incidents now. During the 30 years of ruling over the people of West Bengal, all their operations have come to a pinnacle where since their venture to invite the Multinational companies here following the GATT and Dunkle consignment on the patent rules, 1991, CPM has become a mass party whose main destination is to demolish the economy and conditions of our fellow citizens, villagers and on those poor people who are below the poverty line. It is to be noted that after the early nineties, this globalize economy has manifested a globalize culture, the main intention of which is only to destroy the structure of society, culture and economy of the third world.

The degeneration of Communist party is manufactured through different ways in this country. First of all we can site the example of the system of our constitution and parliamentary politics that deal with only the vote bank. In this perspective, CPM, the so-called mass communist party has little interest to establish the concept of class struggle. They are using the semi-colonial and semi-capitalist structure, not trying to change it, because of their destination to sustain in the parliamentary politics. Secondly we have already noted that a communist party like a party of a higher democratic country tries to strengthen their structure of pan-optic to maintain the madhouse of keeping people mum about any kind of political and economic affair. It is to be noted that everything in a third world country is being overdetermined and nothing we can measure up by a linear deduction. So fascism can be practised here with no sign of fascism. It was, indeed practised by different parties, mainly by BJP and CPM in their areas. We have faced the degenerated issues like Ram mandir Babri masjid etc. Besides we have also experienced the massacre happened in Gujarat. It was a direct religious fascism about which we have raised our voice.

But we should not forget that in a comparative progressive state, like West Bengal. The practice of fascism is easier. This fascism is more dangerous as it remains under the coat of progressiveness. Different areas, different states, different locations have faced these fascism either directly or indirectly. Mr. Budhyadeb Bhattacharjee about the matter of nandigram is enacting. It was a pre-initiated incident which has a direct link with making a chemical hub there and for that reason they tried their operations there, lied, attacked people in the disguise of police and killed more than hundreds of people there, raped more than hundreds, burnt houses, molested but the war by the people of Nandigram has proved that everything can be opposed by a unite people and they were successful to fight back. Afterwards the cadres and central and state committee of CPM with the help of their fascism and state terrorism continued terrors and after 30 th November without any disguise of police fore, the cadres attacked nandigram and burnt more than 500 houses, damaged hospitals, killed patients, raped again a lot, captured people, damaged ambulances and killed and killed like butchers there with the help of modernized automated ammunitions, hiring hooligans and forces of their own party from different areas, states. Tapon and Shukur and Selim are the instances. For the reason of this massacre they are manufacturing the ideas that there were several Maoists but it is a half truth and people of third stream politics though went their but it was hard for them to fight like this. To make protest the artists, painters, poets, singers, writers and commonplace people have made a big rally on 14 th of November at Kolkata where people participated spontaneously and it has shown a new genre of political movement here with the help of Civil Society Movement. But afterwards like a classical fascist party CPM continued to attack on the media and some of them made statements to destroy all the media. They have even crossed the decency of maintaining democratic rights.

To demean the civil society movement and to break the movement CPM along with some brute fundamentalists connected the movement with Taslima Nasrin issue and due to their anarchy Taslima was given the verdict by the state secretary of CPM, Mr. Biman Bose to quit Bengal. This proves that religious fascism is utilizing the political fascism and political fascism is utilizing the religious fascism. How can we say that this is the characteristics of a Communist Party!

Mr. Budhyadeb Bhattacharjee and sons are continuing their limitless fascist statements and from individual to individual they are attacking, terrifying people to stop the entire protesting attitude. The people who are keeping CDs of the massacre at nandigram and on Chemical Hub are being threatened and even are being killed. An instance is Ajay Bagdi of Murshidabad, who for keeping CDs on these matters has been killed by the W.B Police force. This is continuing. They are trying to demean the movements taking place against these fascism and the persons like Medha Patkor, Joy Goswami, Kobir Suman, Prosun Bhowmik, Hindol Bhattacharjee among which excluding Medha all of them are poets of this age.

Budhyadeb Bhattacharjee is only a part of the system, but a fascist is a fascist. The whole system is originating in a fascist way. This is not a communist party and now the civil society movement can only show us the way of how to move.

Not being deviated by the conventionalist way we should introspect that what is the root behind this fascism after a long days of what our country is facing brutally. The BJP, led by Narendra Modi and CPM, led by Budhyadeb Bhattacharjee and Biman Bose are the reflections of this fascism. It is a clear but notorious sign that if we still remain silent about this and deviate from our new risen civil society movement, then a more dangerous fascism will make our democracy a phase of our dream. To strengthen our democracy in a newer form, we should continue our movement, more intelligently in this age of manufacturing consent beside managing relief for restitutes and people suffered due to the massacre.

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