Looking at the recent events at Nandigram and the chain of events that happened prior to that for example at Singur in West Bengal I was reminded of the famous short story by Hans Christian Andersen. Everybody seems to know that what is happening over there is wrong, but who is going to play the role of the child! Who has the guts and simplicity to call the bluff ? There's one crucial difference though, and that is where this article begins. Unlike the story where no harm was done to the child, the child who would do the same thing in present day Bengal and expose the blood thirsty party mechanism is going to be butchered by the party apparatus. The pall of terror and gloom that hangs over Bengal today is unimaginable.
Our dear pall bearers of humanity, justice and democracy are caught on a wrong foot at Nandigram. The Communist Brigade is trying desperately to sabotage the democratic process of debating and discussing all issues of importance in the parliament. Our eminent Stephenian commie Sitaram Yechury has gone on record saying that
"Our objection is not against a debate on Nandigram, but against the violation of rules and procedures of Parliament, which do not allow discussion on matters that are exclusive State subjects.”
What exactly he means by this oxymoronic statement is anybody's guess! As if Mr. Yechury is so bothered about Parliamentary rules that he cannot discuss an issue as important as a state sponsored pogrom of people opposing the party apparatus in the state. This from a party(Yechury is the CPIM spokesman after all) which talks of Parliamentary reforms, Judicial reforms and constitutional reforms all the time! Very recently Yechury spoke of constitutional reforms to accord reservation to minorities! Mr Yechury also tells us that
"the police firing on farmers in Andhra Pradesh and killing of an MP, allegedly by Maoists, in Jamshedpur were also not allowed to be discussed."
The Hindu reports ....
"The Business Advisory Committees of Parliament discussed the BJP’s adjournment notices, which referred to the West Bengal Governor’s statement and the High Court ruling on Nandigram. Both were not admissible as per the rules."
Is it any surprise that under a communist Lok Sabha speaker Mr Somnath Chatterjee and a Communist speaker of the Rajya Sabha Mr Hamid Ansari, such a sham and absolute mockery of the Indian Parliament has been enacted. The two selective plants in the assembly in the form of the two speakers have definitely paid back their masters at the time of need!
Asked how a discussion could be allowed on the 2002 Gujarat communal violence, Sitaram Yechury said it could be discussed as it was “an attack on minorities,” an issue that was permitted under parliamentary rules.
“Even the Supreme Court had said that the matter concerned secularism, a fundamental feature of the Constitution. The court had on this basis upheld the dismissal of four State governments by the then Narasimha Rao government after the Babri Masjid demolition.”
Does Mr Yechury mean that Secularism is a more fundamental feature of the Constitution than the right to live without fear or terror in our own land? And that too when the people perpetuating the violence happen to be from the ruling party? Is the right to live more sacred for a minority than a Hindu? Does not the sight and smell of Hindu blood gall you Mr Yechury?
Even taken literally it is easy to call Mr Yechuri's bluff. According to every single filed report about the violence a majority of the people killed in Nandigram are muslims. Yes ...you saw it right ..MUSLIMS. Its another matter that the people butchering them are the biggest champions of minority rights and thats because they commited the cardinal sin of opposing the party apparatus of terror in Nandigram. So does Mr Yechury mean that minority(read Muslim) blood is holier than Hindu blood , except when they are butchered by communists ? Besides how can the precedence of a mistake be held up as an example to commit another mistake? If anything its the time to revisit the past mistakes and if necessary discuss them all in the parliament (Andhra police firing on farmers, Jamshedpur killing of MP etc). Most importantly, how can Mr Yechuri equate not discussing Maoists killing people with a registered party officially decimating its opponents with the help of its cadres? In case he thinks they are equal, maybe banning the CPI(M) (just like the Naxalites are a banned outfit) would be the ideal point to start.
While it is true that unmitigated violence should be curbed and the law of the land should prevail, it cannot be hijjacked by the ruling party to wipe out its opposition. That is more akin to the methods used in Russia and China and Cambodia, methods that the communist know very well ... to brutalise and terrorise the opposition and put them to death. After all the communists' favourite quote in the 70's was "Power flows from the barrel of the gun" . Is it any surprise then that they have started putting these methods to practice brazenly in their home turf? Bengal has been under communist rule for 30 years now primarily due to this reign of terror and it is only now that thanks to an open media things are getting publicised.
It is time that the child in some of us awoke and at the cost of risking our own death we could say "The emperor is naked."
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What else can one expect from people who are, effectively, the dregs of society ? What can one expect in a quote about Law from a person who has no knowledge of it ? From passing off Conan Doyle's writings as Charles Dickens', to quoting and interpreting the Indian Constitution (I recommend that Mr. Yechury visit http://indiacode.nic.in/coiweb/welcome.html )in ways that can only be interpreted as criminally foolish, the Politicians who rule West Bengal today seem to be nothing more (or less !) than common thugs.
These same thugs have ruled for so long that they believe themselves above everybody else - exempli gratia, "The Prime Minister should behave like a Prime Minister.", comments against High Court Judges and Judgements, threats against the same, clear insults to the Governor, and all of this, on live television (here, though, I must confess - I saw only a rerun of the first).
Politics has become such a dirty game (!) that nobody who has anything better to do wishes to have anything to do with it. Thus, the only people who end up as politicians are those who have failed everywhere else - All Hail Our Rulers !
I do not know whether I should laugh or cry - God, Look with Pride upon your Greatest Creation !
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