The
building of an Indian people’s democratic federal republic based on genuine
democracy and self-reliance is the only alternative!
The elections for the 16th Loksabha and for the
assemblies of Telangana, Seemandhra, Odisha, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh are
to be held from April 7 to May 12, 2014. The exploiting ruling classes of our
country are readying to impose another huge financial burden on the people by
spending thousands of crores of rupees on this. On this occasion the major
parliamentary parties Congress and BJP are vying extremely with each other for
power and are tying to deceive the people one more time by claiming that only
they would develop our country. Defections from top to bottom from the opportunistic
alliances of the UPA led by Congress and the NDA led by the BJP to other
parties and vice versa had begun long before and they Make the New
Democratic Revolution successful!
are
assuming rapidity as the elections approached.
Recently
the Third Front came to the fore with much fanfare with eleven parties. As
everybody expected, it is still immersed in fist fights regarding sharing of
seats. The agreement between the Left Front and the AIADMK in the Third Front
became invalid even before the ink had dried due to differences in sharing
seats. The left parties including CPI (M) had not yet recovered from the
insulting defeat they had suffered in the West Bengal elections. Parties like
the SP, BSP, DMK, AIADMK, Biju Janata Dal, Janata Dal (U), Trinamool, AGP, TDP,
TRS, YSRCP etc are fearing defeat to join either the UPA or the NDA and so have
either joined the Third Front or going it alone with so-called slogans of
social justice, emancipation of Dalits and Bahujans and regional development
etc.
Both
the Third Front parties and those parties contesting on their own are following
a ‘wait and see’ policy to join whichever alliance comes to power after the
election results. As Lok Jansakti Dal joined the NDA as it felt defeat was
certain if it remains in UPA, the RJD is continuing in the UPA to somehow keep
its lantern burning. The politicians belonging to various parties who came to
the fore overnight with new flags and new agendas after leaving their parties
fearing defeat due to people’s wrath or because they did not get a seat in
their parties are flinging as much mud as possible over each other in this
fight for seats. As they had come to power leaving all morals and rules aside
with the sole aim of power through money – money through power and again power
through money and had exploited, oppressed and tortured the people without
respite and lost the confidence of the people, they are resorting to such
blatant opportunist methods having lost any hope of winning in these elections.
The
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) entered the electoral arena with the aim of benefiting
from submerging the people in illusions one more time. It is trying to catch
the attention of the people with revolutionary rhetoric sheltered in
ideological eclecticism consisting of Gandhian ‘Ahimsa’ and ‘Swaraj’ and
‘socialist’ politics of Jayaprakash Narain and its NGO ‘direct participatory
democracy’ stands. Though elections have been held several times and several
governments had changed in the past 65 years of ‘independent’ rule, it is a
fact that even to this day the basic needs of the people like food, clothing,
shelter, education and health care remained out of reach.
The
oppressed masses who constitute 95% of the population are confronting poverty,
illiteracy. Unemployment, price rises, diseases, starvation deaths, corruption
etc on a daily basis. 77% of the population is living on less than 20 rupees
per day. On the other hand the big bourgeoisie and the big landlords are
enjoying enormous amounts of wealth. Hundred corporations belonging to vultures
like Ambani, Tata, Birla, Mittal, Jindal etc account for 25% of the GDP of our
country. The chasm between the rich 25% of the GDP of our country. The chasm
between the rich and the poor increased beyond imagination. Corruption and
scams increased in leaps and bounds. The laws formulated to hamper these social
differences and to prevent them had never been used on the moneyed classes. As
a result, social unrest is swelling.
The
Hindutva Sangh Parivar religious chauvinist oppression on the religious
minorities and the Hindutva Brahminical upper caste oppression on the Dalits in
our country have increased. The repression on national liberation struggles
like Kashmir, Asom and Manipur is increasing day by day. As a result of the
long drawn struggles of the Telangana people for decades together the parliament
had to inevitably give its approval for the formation of a separate state for
Telangana. However, they are still suppressing cruelly aspirations for separate
statehoods for Bodoland, Gorkhaland etc.
The
Adivasis are continuously denied their rights over Jal-Jungle-Zameen-Adhikar.
The women are getting crushed under imperialist and feudal vicious culture. As
the UPA government led by Congress is rapidly implementing the second phase of
economic reforms in its five year rule as a continuation of the Liberalization,
Privatization and Globalization (LPG) policies due to the pressure of the
imperialists and the big capitalists of our country who are bogged down in the
world economic crisis, the conditions worsened in all the sectors in our
country. It signed countless MoUs with MNCs and big corporations of our country
and opened the doors widely for indiscriminate exploitation by handing over the
natural riches of our country to them.
Blatantly
violating the 5th Schedule, PESA etc of the constitution in Adivasi areas it is
holding gram sabhas at the point of the gun in several areas in our country
with peasantry and the Adivasis, forcefully taking their consent for land
acquisition and is implementing policies that would displace them on a gigantic
scale. Due to the bankrupt policies of this government, the industrial
production in our country suffered and lakhs of workers were thrown on the
roads.
Work
burden on workers increased. Their real wages plunged. The number of
unorganized workers outside the purview of labor laws increased. It took up
policies that would hand over retail trade to the imperialist companies. It
gradually handed over the agriculture sector to the corporations and pushed
agriculture into severe crisis. Increase in production costs, lack of
government support in the form of loans etc and lack of minimum support prices
led to large scale suicides of farmers. The lives of the people became
intolerable with the skyrocketing of daily consumer goods with the time to time
increase in petrol and diesel prices. The privatization of education and health
sector turned them into a rarity for the common people.
Corruption
reached the skies and with great scams like 2G spectrum, Commonwealth Games,
Coal gate etc the various ruling class politicians, cliques,
government-military higher ups gulped down lakhs of crores of rupees of
people’s exchequer. These brazen bandits and traitors stashed away billions of
dollars in Swiss banks. The schemes taken up by the UPA government and hyped to
the skies as the dream of Indira Gandhi’s ‘Garibi Hatao’ realized by Sonia
Gandhi have all turned ridiculous with reeking corruption. In fact, the
yesteryear slogan of land reforms disappeared completely. Due to its
ecology-damaging policies natural disasters like in Uttarakhand, untimely rains
and cyclones are occurring and people are suffering heavy losses. Its newly
legislated acts relating to ‘land acquisition’, ‘food security’ and ‘Nirbhaya’
are aimed at either serving the interests of the imperialists and the exploiting
ruling classes or as an eye-wash.
The
UPA government depended on military, paramilitary, special police and commando
forces and on intelligence agencies like IB, NIA and SIB to suppress the masses
who are rebelling against their anti-people policies and to consolidate its
rule and carrying on offensives in fascist methods. It is curbing civil rights
and even the right to live. The enemy forces are carrying on massacres of
hundreds of Adivasis, Dalits, other oppressed masses revolutionary activists
and in revolutionary movement areas led by our party. As part of carpet
security all the movement areas in the various states have been turned into
military camps of enemy forces.
Thousands
of innocent people, revolutionary activists and leaders were put in jails. On
the one hand they are shouting that ‘the Maoist guerillas who are resorting to
violence in the forests do not have any ideology’ and on the other they are
trying to control the intellectuals by stating that ‘the Maoist ideologues in
the cities who are continuously stoking the Maoist ideology are more dangerous
than the guerillas.’ They are trying to isolate the progressive intellectuals,
writers, youth and the students from the revolutionary movement and stand them
in opposition to it. The BJP, left front and other state governments are also
collaborating with the UPA government in this. The BJP had supported the UPA
government in the past ten years on all the major policies it implemented. The
only difference being where they sat – whether in ruling or in opposition.
All
their accusations and counter-accusations were done with the intention of
deceiving the people. There is not much difference between the central and
state governments too in this matter despite any party being in power.
Similarly this suppression is not confined only to the Maoist movement areas.
The anti-POSCO, anti-nuclear Kudamkulam struggles are the fresh examples of
this. The hegemony of the US imperialists in the economic, polity, military and
cultural spheres and the intervention of its intelligence agency FBI increased
during UPA rule. The Wikileaks revelations made it clear that nearly one lakh
US soldiers and officers are staying clandestinely in our country and are
conveying all kinds of support and help directly and indirectly in imposing
fascism on the people.
The
Congress that was in power continuously for ten years followed pro-imperialist,
pro-CBB and pro- big landlord policies and was responsible for the agonizing
living conditions of the people and the disastrous economy of our country and
for the massacres of thousands of activists of various democratic and
revolutionary movements and people, persecution of religious minorities in the
name of ‘terrorists.’ It won the dubious distinction of being the originator of
the biggest and highest number of corruption scams in the parliamentary history
of our country. As a result it won the severe hatred of the people.
To
escape this and hoodwink the people the Congress is bringing to the fore its
main slogan of ‘Bharat Nirman’ pointing towards the ‘development’ it achieved
in its ten-year rule and towards the anti-corruption, land acquisition, food
security and Nirbhaya acts and welfare schemes that it formulated. The Congress
has been in power at the centre and in most of the states for the maximum time
after 1947. It was mainly responsible by being in power for such a long period
of time for the anti-people policies that were formulated and implemented. The
massacres of religious minorities, particularly the massacre of Sikhs in 1984
took place under its rule. Though Sangh Parivar was directly responsible for
the destruction of Babri Masjid it was the Congress that was behind the high
drama from the centre.
It
was mainly responsible for suppressing the just national liberation struggles
of the Kashmir and the present North East by massacring tens of thousand of
youth through its military brute force. It implemented all these anti-people
policies by taking the help of other parliamentary parties when in power and also
by colluding with the ruling alliances when not in power. Who else would be
mainly responsible than the Congress for the insufferable conditions of the
workers, peasants, petty bourgeois sections, oppressed nationalities, Dalits,
Adivasis, religious minorities, women, small and medium capitalists in our
country? The people are not so gullible as to believe its ‘Bharat Nirman’,
so-called welfare schemes, deceptive anti-corruption pose BJP’s main attack is
on the corrupt rule of the Congress. It is clear that it does not have any
basically different policies than Congress on any of the main issues
confronting the people and the country and has the same corrupt, treacherous
and dictatorial policies in any sphere.
With
the directive of the RSS, BJP announced the Hindu bigot and mass murderer
Narendra Modi as its prime ministerial candidate. It is hiding its Hindu
chauvinist agenda behind the ‘Gujarat Vikas’ model and is concentrating its
entire machinery around Modi to capture power at the centre one more time.
‘Gujarat Vikas’ model means terrorizing the Muslim and Christian minorities,
seizing their properties, chasing them away from their abodes or making them
servile through massacres of Muslim religious minorities and subjecting them to
innumerable atrocities along with atrocities on Christian religious minorities;
making the entire state as the hub for the investments of MNCs, big bourgeoisie
and opening doors to their endless exploitation and oppression. The Sangh
Parivar and the BJP are aiming to establish this Hitlerite model in the guise
of ‘Vikas’ in the entire country by coming to power in these elections.
Congress came to power the previous two terms and won the severe wrath of the
people.
So
the ruling classes and the US imperialists are openly supporting the
candidature of Modi for the PM post as he would implement their agenda
ruthlessly. Accordingly the corporate media is propagating Modi on a huge
scale. Its attempt to win in the Delhi elections by bringing a religious divide
through religious riots in Muzaffarnagar indicates only its fascist face.
Rajnath Singh’s statement a few days before the election dates were announced
that he was apologizing to the Muslims ‘if at any place any wrong was done to
them’ is nothing but a ploy to hide the massacre of Muslims carried on by Modi
in Gujarat and gain their votes.
But
how would the Muslim and Christian religious minorities forget the massacres,
discrimination, suppression and chauvinism that they suffered in the hands of
the Sangh Parivar right from 1947 to the recent Muzaffarnagar killings? The
pogrom and persecution of religious minorities in Gujarat under Modi met with
unprecedented opposition and protest not only in Gujarat but all over our
country. Even if they come to power, the Hindu fascists will have to face the
countrywide active resistance of the Muslim and Christian minorities,
revolutionary and democratic forces. This would be the foremost task of these
forces then. The AAP that was born and brought up with a NGO background and on
imperialist and NRI funds and support, is not going into the roots of this
system and into the basic problems of the people and is resorting Gandhian
feats for solving people’s problems.
They
do not have any solution for the basic problems of the oppressed classes, people
and sections that are being suppressed under exploitation and oppression. It is
serving as a safety valve to divert the erupting people’s anger into peaceful
and parliamentary solutions and trying to cash in on it. The actual issues of
the people never come up for discussion in the parliament and the assemblies.
They are under the control of the imperialists, CBB and the big landlords.
Where is the place for democracy in this system where votes could be bought
with money, liquor, religious and casteist sentiments? It is ridiculous to call
this a democracy when criminals, bandits and notoriously corrupt politicians
win in elections. In fact, when we look into history we find that people’s
problems have always been solved through people’s struggles, class struggles
and PPW and not through parliamentary forums.
As
elections are being conducted like a farce each time, the Election Commission
of India vowed to strengthen democracy during these elections and is trying to
bring in several reforms along with including guidelines according to the
Supreme Court order. As part of strengthening democracy, the SC had issued
orders to give the voters the right to ‘reject.’ As a result, the NOTA button
was introduced in the EVMs for the first time during the assembly elections in
five states in 2013. Now during these Loksabha elections this is being
introduced all over the country. In fact, this NOTA right suppresses the ‘right
to recall’ the elected representatives that the people should rightfully have.
If they really intend to give the ‘right to reject’, then why are they
deploying lakhs of government armed forces in areas where our party had given
the call to boycott the polls in the name of conducting ‘free and fair’
elections and carrying on attacks, search operations, arrests, fake encounters
and massacres?
The
great Marxist teacher Lenin stated in his ‘State and Revolution – “Elections
are held to decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to
repress and crush the people through parliament—such is the real essence of
bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in parliamentary-constitutional monarchies,
but also in the most democratic republics.” This is more applicable to
our semi-colonial, semi-feudal country that claims itself to be the ‘biggest
democracy in the world.’ That is why, none of the oppressed masses believe that
their lives would change or that there would be a fundamental change in this
system through these elections.
In
all the elections held our country so far, considerable number of voters are
distancing themselves from polling. The stronger parties occupy the polling
booths with their goon force and conduct rigging. Even those who vote are not
doing so with the belief that these elections would benefit them. They are voting
just for local needs or other pressures or lures such as caste, religion,
regionalism, money, liquor, goondaism etc. There is no alternative for the
people in this sham parliamentary system. All the major parties coming to the
fore in the elections are subservient to the imperialists and represent the
Indian exploiting ruling classes.
All
these parties are anti-people, treacherous corrupt, oppressive, reactionary and
fascist in nature. Serving the interests of imperialism, CBB and the big
landlord classes, keeping intact the Indian semi-colonial semi-feudal system
and crushing all democratic and revolutionary movements is the aim of these
parties. They are coming together to suppress our party, the CPI (Maoist) that
is coming to the fore as an alternative to this, the NDR led by it and the
embryonic new organs of political power that represent the Indian people’s
democratic federal republic based on genuine democracy and self-reliance.
Though
these comprador parties loll in the pig-sty of the parliament for power and
engage in dog-fights with each other for their share in the loot, when it comes
to crushing the revolutionary movement by labeling it the ‘gravest threat to
internal security’ of our country they are all unanimous. They are resorting to
a severe multi-pronged offensive according to the US dictated LIC strategy and
tactics. Their deceptive proposals for Peace Talks and reform schemes are aimed
at diverting the people and the democrats and to carry on a further heavy
offensive on the revolutionary movement. The countrywide multi-pronged
offensive carried on in the name War on People – OGH since mid- 2009 by the
central government by colluding with BJP and along with various state
governments is a part of this.
They
are trying without success through repression to preserve this rotten
exploiting system. But in a backdrop where the revolutionary conditions are
maturing day by day, they are doomed to be swept away by the people. The
present exploitative system cannot be transformed with elections. The basic
problems of the people would not be solved. Even their basic needs would not be
fulfilled. All the electoral parties are dead against genuine democracy,
self-reliance and sovereignty of our country.
None
of them is morally qualified to ask our people to vote for them. That is why
our party is giving a call to the entire people of India to boycott these sham
parliamentary and assembly elections and to march forward in the path of PPW
for the victory of the NDR that is waged with agrarian revolution as the axis
on the basis of ‘land to the tiller’ for building an Indian people’s democratic
federal republic. This new democratic state will be the people’s democratic
dictatorship exercised by the united front comprising the proletariat,
peasantry, petty-bourgeoisie and the national bourgeoisie class under the
leadership of the proletariat based upon the worker-peasant alliance and
liberate our country from the clutches of the imperialists, the CBB and the big
landlords.
(Abhay)
Spokesperson,
Central
Committee, CPI (Maoist)
March 24, 2014
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