In this general election things have changed drastically in
political spectrum on India, it has shifted from parliamentary form of election to a presidential
form of campaigning. But in this whole exercise, I want to bring attention on one of the outcome of this election
i.e. loosing of the left philosophy dynamically in India which can be well
explained by the below graph.
In India the journey of left is mix with bullet and ballot.
When in 1957 the first left government was elected in Kerala. It was the first
time in entire world when the leftist have seized the power by a democratic
process and it send a strong message of emergence and acceptance of this philosophy
in India. Sino-Indo war 1962 war created a split in communist party of India. One
section of communist favors China and one section adopted the philosophy of
nationalism. The one who where in support of china did so on the basis of
ideological basis of communism, the one who opposes did so on the basis of
their own idea of nationalism first and then followed by communism. Everyone is entitled
for their opinion, but now since 1957 in the history of 57 years the grounds for left
is shrinking. Now look at their performance in recent election, they are reduced to 3.2% vote share
and with 10 seats to represent. Certainly this number is not going to help in
their objective and keeping their acceptance level in general public, in future also I
don’t see any improvement either. Although I am not a very representing voice
but trust me you are no longer the point of conversation in drawing room of
middle class or topic of conversation in farmers sitting under a banyan tree,
it doesn't matter how true and committed your ideology is towards workers and
farmers.
Nobody can deny the fact that left government has always
pushed for land reforms and put their best efforts to abolish caste ism and
feudal infrastructure. For the left which participate in elections it’s high
time for them to introspect that what went wrong? or they will turn into history. You cannot only roam around
a secular ring and think it will revive your fortune. What humor is this that
in India more than 1 million people works in IT industry and they are not in the purview of any labor or employment law. Did you ever confront the government
in parliament over this issue? At least in my knowledge it never happened and
yet you claimed that you pioneered in protecting the rights of labors or
workers but you enthusiastically participate in secular debates. I have
one request for you don’t evolve around communal ring, it is very important that India
must remain secular but in socialism or communism ideology, religion in non existence. You
are it making it communal by arguing about certain community, which can be evidently perceived by your election manifesto.
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The violent form of left emerges when Charu Mazumdar and Kanu Sanyal adopted the path of bullet to change this system. If I take the violence form of
left (i.e. Naxallite Movement), it is also not finding the place in drawing room
discussions of the general public, they only see soldiers getting killed by
armed extremist whatever your noble cause may be and I do share the same
opinion. Still some time I get mesmerized by the lines of a revolutionary poet Gorakh
pandey who also inspired the life of Anuradha Gandhy (a naxallite leader) :
“It’s thousands of
years old
Their anger
Thousands of years old
is their bitterness
I am only returning
their scattered words
With rhyme and rhythm
And you fear that
I am spreading fire.
For them I have only one request please drop your weapons, your
own founder Kannu Snayal committed suicide raising question about the current movement
of extreme leftist. In the land of Gandhi and Buddha, if someone thinks that since
he get inspired by the ideas of Mao, Lenin and Stalin and believe that the same idea
will nourish and get a mass acceptance in this land, you are mistaken. They are
great leaders but there idea work for their own nation but it doesn't mean it is
universal and moreover people in this country needs improvement in current system, they don't want to completely change the system, they still have trust in current running system for justice.
It has been said that an idea never dies, it prevails in different
forms. May be your all ideas or philosophy will someday partially or fully absorbed
by one or more political parties which in my view be great thing but how absurd
is this, that someone who claims to be a pioneered of something turns out they were
not, they were only rich of words but someone else implement their idea on the ground level. That will
be your end, and if I am not wrong it has already started. Please get together in
non violent movement, in India there are thousands of peasant and workers
still residing and they want that there voice to be heard in parliament in same
furious manner in which you claimed to advocate. It’s hard to see such a dissenting
philosophy of modern world slowly dying.
*Diclamer
The data shown in the graph can have the variance of +- 10%.
