It
is now months the last left front government bowed down and the much
bugled euphoria of the present government has also settled down. The new
government’s supremo obelised the spectators for the first few days
by giving theatrical appearances in various Governmental offices, so
that her tabloid hung in the street corners have materials to display.
All seemed to have settled now and people at large has gone back to
regular routine, news are now concentrated around Indian Formula one,
Bacchan family and there expecting baby and collapse of team Anna.
Same blunt faces of the old an incapable leadership of the left front
and same practice of repeating mistakes and habit of admitting the
guilt and there by not solving the same has had a negative impact on the
supporters and the respective manifesto has failed to mesmerise
public, the gradually fading sympathy to wards Left Front ultimately
collapsed and what happened there after is now history.
Now the
question is has the left parties learnt a lesson, are the leadership
willing to bridge the gap and participate in greater cause ,and make
their presence felt among the masses, or like yesteryears, will glorify
the mistakes and by ornamenting the same will lead there respective
parties to doom?
I propose to deal with these in a different
angle, scaling them in my own machine that has been taking stock of the
situation for long, as I now admit that even the Communist parties in
India has no other options but to participate in the Parliamentary
democratic system and spread its Ideology, as revisionism is now an
obsolete term in India’s Communist System and unnecessary division
between them in terms of calling each other names will only tighten the
fist of the opportunists. I have no hesitation to say the recent
collapse is also a reason of such internal conflicts between the Left
parties.
Its true that the biggest party in the left front took all
leading initiatives in the policy matters and the presence of the
smaller parties were so insignificant that people termed the defeat of
Left front as the defeat of the CPI (M).The control and command exerted
by CPM in the left front actually defeated the basic of Lenin’s thought
and preaching of leadership ,C.P,I(M) some what dictated the norms and
the others for there respective interests obelised, how ever it is said
that under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become
accustomed to no one governing.
On the contrary the partners
were not bothered as long as the ministries that they have occupied has
provided comprehensive sustenance to that particular party, and
generated funds from respective department helped the lesser parties to
strengthen there hold in several pockets. Corruption was there,
blatant and practiced in all forms, as the ministers were busy
collecting revenue from the respective ministries, and in process was
gradually withdrawing them from the mind of the commoners. It is however
a pathetic display of degeneration of unity as witnessed in the last
few years of the Left front rule, as all the smaller parties were ready
and willing to shift the burden on the major member as they thought the
public sympathy that they had will continue if there guilt can be
passed on to other. The still continuing practice of failure to
apologise, and passing the parcel of breakdown ,in itself proves the
parties now out of power is ventilating there frustration and it seems
that the passage of time did not lead to an end to this obfuscation. As
Mao observed that investigation may be likened to the long months of
pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a
problem is, indeed, to solve it, contrary to the prevailing practice of
solving a problem by not solving it at all. (1)
There were
allegations but none were replied properly, and the voters, had to throw
the corpse. Life was long gone, the decomposition was in way preventing
the youths from being attracted to the left ideology.
Now as I have
earlier mentioned the question is has the Left Front leaders learnt
there lessons? The answer is no, they have still proposed to leave the
question unanswered as to what actually happened since 1947 till date
and if they really want to ascertain the reason then the present
leadership will have to step-down and search it among the peasants,
commoners masses. The off an on remarks, the still so arrogant behaviour
and more over the still prevailing practice of power mongering is the
big NO to this question. The basic practice of Feudalism has crept in to
the system of running the respective parties.
The left parties in
Indian parliamentary democratic system, for reasons un known has been
preventing the exposures of there young talents, even the talents those
which made there appearance were so humble that they never took any
positive steps to rectify the wrongs, more over those who had the guts
was referred to as the black sheep, such failure has today paid back.
The problem is not with the system that has been prevailing, but the
practice that was adopted, indiscriminate inclusions in the party ranks,
with out knowing whether the aspirant is at all a believer in the
ideology Marxism, socialism, respective parties proposed to increase
there membership, mainly with the view of having more funds and more
men, but never proposed to ask them and take a test as to whether they
are real Communists.
People approached the ruling party for
shelter, for greed, for getting there work done in there respective
fields, and obviously with the passage of time they shifted there
allegiance to others, as they were like water they well fitted them in
the new container.
Its true the left parties, those who were in
power are now some what pollution free, but they still need to pump in
fresh blood to de congest the arteries so that the dream of having a
revolution through ballots can be fulfilled and the country can be freed
from the age old shackles of feudalistic capitalism, A disease common
in these part of the world.
The present leadership should understand
in the words of Rosa Luxemburg that ‘Those who do not move do not
notice their chains.’