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CPI’s Cover-Up Of Facts
Dt: 20/9/16
CPI’s Cover-Up Of Facts
Dr T.H.Chowdary*
In the press note (Hans India 15/9/16) refuting Indrasena Reddi’s uncomplimentary references to the role of the Communist Party of India, Comrade Chada Venkat Reddi covered up certain bitter facts. These are : guided by the COMINFORM and CP GB’s Rajni Palme Dutt, the CPI under Com. BT Ranadive’s leadership (replacing that of P C Joshi) in 1948 characterised the Nehru government as a stooge and lackey of Anglo-American imperialism and launched armed revolution to throw out the Nehru government . The Communist Party of Hyderabad was banned by the Nizam in 1943 because of armed struggle against the feudal exploitation in the Nizam State. The ban was lifted in May 1948 as the CPI, like the Nizam and his Razakars opposed the accession of Nizam’s Hyderabad to India and supported his bid to be independent. The CPI’s reasoning was that Nizam is weaker than the G.O.I; it had liberated 3000 villages, had a guerrilla army; and so after defeating the Nizam’s army; it could establish the republic of Telangana, using which as a base it could eventually overwhelm the Nehru government itself and turn the whole of India into a communist state, just as Mao Tse Tung using liberated Yenan, eventually defeated Chiang Kai Shaikh government in Peking , and established communist rule in China.
2. The CPI and Razakars and the Nizam were therefore of the same aim - no accession to India. The CPI even gave call to Telangana people to oppose the Indian army if it entered Hyderabad. The CPI- Razakar co-operation, especially in acquiring arms, thus took shape.
3. When the Nizam’s army was defeated and surrendered on the 17th Sept and Nizam acceded to India, the CPI continued to fight the Indian army. Razaakars made over much of their arms to the CPI. The Indian army- CPI battles went on upto Sept 1951. The guerrillas were decimated . CPI leadership in Telangana was confined to hide-outs.
4. A delegation of Com. Chandra Rajeswara Rao, Makineni Basavapunnaiah, Ajoy Ghosh and S A Dange secretly travelled to Moscow. Stalin gave them an interview after keeping them waiting for two weeks. The terminally debilitated Telangana guerrilla war was reviewed. Stalin advised the CPI delegation to give up all armed struggles against the Indian government in Telangana and the rest of India and forge “ united fronts” to participate in the ensuing first general elections in Independent India in 1952. B.T. Ranadive was replaced by Ajoy Ghosh. Thus ended the CPIs glorious struggle against feudal Nizam and rapacious Razakars till May 1948 and the CPIs inglorious, foreign advised, war against Nehru government itself during Sept 1948 to Sept 1952. The rest is history- commendable electoral victorious of the CPI in Andhra Districts and Telangana to its present day insignificance; reduced as it ( and seven other of its splinters) is as a statement party of India; rejected by voters but claiming to be the true peoples party.
5. Now regarding the CPI leaders observation that RSS was banned by Patel. Nehru-Patels Congress governments banned the Communist Party also; indeed many communists were jailed under preventive detention acts. The ban on RSS in 1948 was lifted in an year’s time as the reasons cited were false. The same Jawaharlal Nehru who was overjoyed to ban RSS in 1948, had invited the RSS to join the Republic Day Parade in 1963. The CPI was neither then or before or later invited by the G.O.I to join the Republic Day Parade.
6. Indeed many communists who justified Communist China’s war on India in 1962, were jailed. The CPI split in 1964. CPM was born. The CPM split in 1976 when the die-hard Maoists formed another communist (Maoist) party. The CPI supported the Emergency Rule of Indira ( 1975-’77). The CPM ( and the CPI) struck electoral alliance with Sonia Congress to defeat Trinamool Congress a faction of the Congress in 2016.
7. Comrades would do well to ponder over this: The RSS and Communist Party of India were both founded at the same time in 1925. The RSS mentored Jana Sangh - BJP are running governments at the Center and States since long and have a lasting pan - India following. Communists ( all varieties) are in pockets only: Tripura, West Bengal and Kerala and in JNU, and somewhat, in Jadavpur and Hyderabad Universities. For them Muslims are the proletariat and for their “secular” allies in Sonia Congress, minorities i.e Muslims and Christians are the real people of India; Hindus are communalists, having a love affair with BJP. The “Statement Parties of India” - what the communist parties now are - fully bear out the Telugu proverb : Pitta Konchemu: Koota Ghanamu i.e the bird is puny but its sound is might loud. (784 words)
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