National Security
Totalitarian’s Talk of Tolerance
Dt: 19/2/16
Totalitarian’s Talk of Tolerance
Dr T.H.Chowdary *
One cannot but be surprised at a National Secretary of the Communist Party of India ( Dr K Narayana) having so little knowledge of Indian history or if he is knowledgeable, but has so much audacity to tell non-facts (Hans India 18-2-16 No More Tolerance) . First, he says that 27,800 Muslims laid down their lives in India’s freedom struggle. This is a total exaggeration for not all Hindus and Sikhs and Muslims and others put together died in that number in the freedom struggle; Unless he thinks that those who died in Hindu Muslim riots were struggling for freedom by mutual slaughter. But those fights were communal and not for freedom of the nation. He suppresses the fact that the tallest Muslim leaders, Sir Sayyed Ahmed, Sir Md. Iqbal and Md. Ali Jinnah propagated that Hindus and Muslims cannot be one nation and that one cannot rule over the other. The country was partitioned into Pakistan and Hindustan. Not independence but division of India and carving out of Pakistan was what was voted for by over 95% of the Muslim electorate in the general elections to the State Assemblies and to the Central Legislature in 1946. The Khilafat movement in which the secular National Congress joined the Indian Muslims, (as in no Muslim country did Muslims agitated) was not a struggle of Muslims for the freedom of India but for the restoration of the Caliph cum Sultan of Turkey to his former power after his empire was dismantled due to Turky’s defeat in the first world war (1914-‘18). Even as Mahatma Gandhi and the Congress lent themselves to the Khilafat movement after its termination ( as Gen. Kemal Ata Turk not only abolished the Caliphate but even expelled the Caliph from Turkey) the then tallest leader of Muslim Maulana Md Ali speaking at Aligarh and Ajmere (1924) said the following words about Mahatma Gandhi.
“However pure Mr. Gandhi’s character may be, he must appear to be from the point of view of religion inferior to any Musalaman, even though he be without character”. The Statement created a great stir. Many did not believe that Mr. Mohamed Ali, who testified to so much veneration for Mr. Gandhi was capable of entertaining such ungenerous and contemptuous sentiments about him. When Mr. Mohamed Ali was speaking in a meeting held at Amina Baug Park in Lucknow, he was asked whether the sentiments attributed to him were true. Mr. Mohamed Ali without any hesitation or compunction replied. “Yes! According to my religion and creed, I do hold an adulterous and a fallen gentleman to be better than Mr. Gandhi”
2. The total disregard of historic facts by Dr. Narayana comes when he says that Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhash Chandra Bose, Tilak etc. were in communist organisations which fought gloriously in the independence movement. Lokamanya Tilak died (1920) before the communist party was founded in India (1925). Subhash Chandra Bose and Nehru were never in the communist party. In fact, communists denounced Subhash Chandra Bose as a running dog of Japanese imperialism . Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India was denounced by the Communist Party as a lackey of Anglo-America imperialism. To assert that they were in communist organisations is the height of false hoods.
3. Communists infiltrated into the Congress on the advice of their handlers – Rajni Palme Dutt of the Communist Party of Great Britain and George Dimitrov of the Comitern . When almost all Congress leaders were in jails ( 1942-’45) in consequence of the Quit India movement ( launched 9, Aug 1942) communists directed by their handlers collaborated with the British rulers of India; the ban on their party was lifted. On release from jails, a committee of the Congress including Nehru and Patel held the communists as subversives and expelled them from Congress.
4. Later they were expelled from the Congress Socialist Party, led by Jayaprakash Narayan and Acharya Narendra Deva. As communists gained control of the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) and were launching strikes disrupting industrial production, Congress withdrew its patronage to the AITUC and launched its own labour front- Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC).
5. Immediately after Independence, the foreign handlers of the CPI; directed the latter to pull down the Nehru government holding it as a lackey of Anglo-American imperialism. The CPI took to arms under the leadership of BT Ranadive against the Indian state under Nehru’s rule in 1949 in several parts of India, notably in Andhra, Kerala, West Bengal and Telangana ( even after Sept 17, 1948). The communist insurrection was almost wiped out and in Sept 1951, under direct advice/orders of Stalin, the CPI called off the insurrection and took to electoral contests in and after 1952.
6. During the period 1942-1947,the communist party supported the Muslim Leagues two-nation theory and the division of India and creation of Pakistan ( I as a student used to March in communist processions holding flags – red of the CPI in the center, tricolour of Congress to the right and green with crescent moon on the left. Com. Narayana conceals these facts).
7. Simply because the law of sedition is a colonial law it need not be discarded. About 80% of laws that are in vogue in India were all enacted during the colonial times. Truth and order do not change according to who is in power . A thief is a thief, a murderer is a murderer, and the process of trial and the judgments to be given do not change deepening upon whether Congress in power or BJP is in power or an ICS officer was holding power.
8. Citing certificates of the leader so BSP, JDU or Congress regarding the nature of the offence committed by some JNU students is poor defence. Communists talking of tolerance is amazing . Did any communist party while in power, in any country allow a second political party to exist or the publication of any newspapers or any journal by any other than the communist party or the communist government? Were there or are there any non-communist papers or radios or books in any communist ruled country? The communists in India are not Indian communist parties, but communist party of India – clearly showing they are part of a transnational party, a political umma. They are part of a transnational ideology and party. Their fatherland was different.
9. And now can the learned Dr.Narayana explain why there are more than half a dozen communist parties in the county and about 90 affiliated associations and unions covering students, women, writers, artists , labour , journalists, teachers etc? The fact is that the academic establishment in JNU was captured by intolerant, self-righteous, Marxist , all-knowing, “eminent” historians and agit-prop theoreticians. The JNU itself was a gift of Indira Gandhi for the services rendered to her in 1969 by the communists for overwhelming the old Congress. It is now acting as a reservoir and supplier of a politically intolerant and failed ideology and political mobilisation . Despite their great intellectual exercise and influence in sectors like the media, not more than 2% to 4% of the India’s voters have ever found the communists acceptable as their representatives in the legislatures. The Telugu proverb, pitta konchamu; kootha ghanamu ( the bird is tiny but its sound is thunderous) is absolutely true in respect of the communists, some underground and waging war against the Indian states since the mid 1970s and some above ground serving as the infrastructure for the guerrilla armies. Some dalits and crypto – converts in JNU, UOH and some other universities are being indoctrinated and manipulated to fight nationalists, nation-building and the indivisibility of India. Emotional Slogans like secularism, socialism, social justice, democratic and human rights, freedom of expression are raised to seduce the young into different militancies. This may not pass for long. (1,307 words)
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