Nandigram betrays ugly and real face of Marxist  goons

The unprecedented and horrific events in this village are a grim reminder of what happened at Tiananman Square in Beizing.

A village defies the CPM government. The Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharya, the toast of the anglicised media, the poster boy of the capitalist lobby, and the suave and sophisticated face of CPM, cannot digest this. The Nandigram villagers must be brought down to their knees and their defiance must be quelled at all costs.

A five thousand strong police force and thousands of CPM workers surround the village. They stop the media persons from entering the conflict zone and threaten them that if they try to cover the impending mayhem, they will be torn to shreds. It is an unprecedented operation in the history of India. It is the way the Maoists carry out their raids in Chateesgarh. The CM openly declares that there is anarchy in Nandigram and he will not tolerate it. The CPM General Secretary Prakash Karat repeats the same lie afterwards.
 

Anarchy in a village! What kind of anarchy can there be in a village? And if the Nandigram villagers don’t allow the CPM cadre and the police to enter their village, can it really be considered all that serious a case of anarchy? Why the West Bengal police and the CPM goons had to enter the village anyway if not for teaching a few lessons to the villagers about how to be the obedient citizens of a Marxist state?

The villagers stay defiant. They resist the aggressors with whatever little  ‘stone power’ they have. However, the CPM goons and the police have come determined. The villagers are fired upon. Fifteen of them die. This is the official figure. Unofficially, even a minister in the state government admits that he saw more than fifty dead bodies. All the dead are poor villagers. The police claim that a number of its personnel were injured too.
 

Injured, not killed. Injured in stone throwing. The police also claim that the villagers fired upon it and there were Naxalites among them. However, none among the injured policemen has bullet injuries.

That is the credo of the Marxists. Buddhadev’s exhortations are telltale evidence of the autocratic mindset of this extremely intolerant political class. We won’t brook any opposition. It is our fiefdom and no serious challenge to it will be tolerated. We shall deal a crushing blow to all resistance, using everything - the administration, the police, and our goons. We will break the backs of those who defy us. We will ostracise, browbeat, and even kill to ensure that out power base does not wither away.

The Marxists are hell bent on executing the Chinese Model of Economic Growth (CMEG). And what is the most important feature of this model? Absolute and undisputed authoritarian control of the party over the administration and all decision-making processes. People don’t matter here. Anyone who dares to resist the well-oiled and organised party apparatus that works in cahoots with the administrative machinery will be beaten down to dust.

This is critical to the success of the CMEG. Your credibility depends on it. Why will a Tata or an Ambani, or any other industrialist, listen to you unless you prove to him that nothing else matters in the affairs of the state but your diktat? This is a happy marriage of moneybags and a political party with the sole intention of marginalising the people forever, turning them into beggars.
 

The villagers and farmers of India in general and West Bengal in particular should have a good understanding of what is happening in the name of industrialisation. They don’t want to become beggars. They are resisting this backdoor industrial/political feudalism that takes away their economic self-sufficiency and the freedom to live their lives on their own terms without any outside interference. This does not suit the Marxists and the Maoists as they have never believed in the freedom of choice, in philosophy or in practice. The party will decide what is good for the people. The dissidents will be eliminated. It will be done ruthlessly by manipulating the ballot and if needed, firing teargas shells and bullets. The CPM will not even hesitate to go roughshod over various democratic institutions like the Supreme Court and the Parliament if the need arises.

There are two political dispensations in this country that have always professed and preached democracy, but have acted differently -- the Congress Party and the CPM. Both act without a conscience. They develop arguments that serve their political and power interests. They never admit their mistakes, as doing so will mean capitulating. Everything they do, they do for absolute political power. For this, they co-opt the bureaucracy, the judiciary, the Election Commission and various other democratic, political, cultural, and academic institutions by filling them up with their hard-core loyalists. They want to be in power, perpetually.  Principles do not matter here. Then there are the Maoists who want power through the barrel of the gun. They are better than CPM and the Congress as they don’t even pretend to be believers in democracy. They want the rule of the proletariat.
 

They indoctrinate their cadre with Marxist and Maoist ideas and theories and send them out to kill and subvert the state apparatus. The gun-wielding idiots never get to understand the game. It is the party that will rule in the name of the proletariat and will do exactly what Buddhadev and his goons are doing to the proletariats of Nandigram.

Another feature of their functioning is their abhorrence of dialogue and discourse. Buddhdeb could not even have a dialogue with his colleagues in the Left Front. Can there be a dialogue between Sonia Gandhi and her partymen? It is always a one way traffic. You do whatever your are told to do. Vajpayee tried to emulate all these bad examples too and was finally consigned to the dustbin of history. Even if they show the willingness for dialogue, it is  part of their  propaganda and image building stratagem rather than a genuine attempt to discuss, dabte, and resolve differences. This is such an un-Indian (Hindu) trait. One of the favourite economic ideologues of the Marxists, Prof. Amartya Sen, has written a book about this Indian uniqueness titled The Argumentative Indian.
 

Look at the way Prof. Buddhadev talks. He is always right. He knows what is good for the people though the people don’t know it. They have to be taught with the help of bullets and goon power. Similarly, the Marxists, the Maoists, the secularists, the Islamists, the Pope, Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, Chidambaram, and Kamalnath are right too. They rival Mullah Omar and George Bush in their great sense of ‘rightness’. They won’t listen to anyone. Prof. Sen should study them and let us know if these people can actually be called Indians. Whereas, Yashwant Sinha, the FM in the NDA government, was wrong because he would listen to the cries of the MPs and roll back his tax proposals. The media would call him the roll back finance minister because he was sensitive to public outcry.

It is heartening to know that people participated in the Bengal Bandh of their free will. They were not coerced into shutting their shops and shunning their work places. This is an expression of the true Indian spirit. Screw the over-zealous media men who start counting the losses as soon as a Bandh is announced.  These ignoramuses know nothing. Bandhs and street protests are the real signs of a truly living society. It will be really sad and shameful if the health and spirit of a society will be judged by the rise and fall of the stock market indices and the burgeoning salaries of IIM graduates. Politicians, bureaucrats, and moneybags would want exactly this scenario to flourish.
 

However, a living society has its own parameters to judge its growth and well-being. It is conscientious and has a great in-built sense of justice. It cannot be fooled into a false and media-manufactured state of well-being by ‘India shinning’ and ‘India poised’ campaigns. It can clearly see through the game and is not willing to be manipulated and browbeaten. It has the capacity to defy the media propaganda, a well-equipped police force, and even a gang of political goons.

Hats off to the villagers of Nandigram and Singur! Their spirit of resistance and defiance must be celebrated. And it is being celebrated. Even by those who have been the biggest beneficiaries of the so-called economic boom. The fact that during the 16th March Bandh in Bengal, even IT companies had to shut shop because of poor attendance by their employees, is the clear proof that deep within the bones of these young upwardly mobile dudes, the Indian spirit is still alive and kicking and their conscience and sense of justice is intact. They have not completely sold their souls to Mammon.

Let the banner of revolt be raised in every village, Kasbah, town, and city against the insensitive, self-serving, and corrupt establishment that serves the interests of a few and marginalises the vast majority. Bravo Nandigram and Singur! Buddhadev’s attempts to industrialise West Bengal had nothing to do with some modern day renaissance. The awakening, the biplav, at Nandigram and Singur is a sure sign that the true Bengali spirit is still alive and kicking and is struggling hard to free itself from the CPM’s authoritarian stranglehold.

And all those JNU trained media analysts, who act as the CPM’s front men, should be ashamed of trying to term the Nandigram revolt as a conflict between warring political groups.

However, their shenanigans will not work. Who cares for the media anyway? It is getting increasingly irrelevant by its misdeeds, misrepresentations, and acts of deliberate omissions and commissions in its coverage of events across the nation.