Articles
Arrest of Seven “Activists”
Dt: 3/9/18
Arrest of Seven “Activists”
Dr T.H.Chowdary*
Several organisations and their chief functionaries, almost all very well -known for drawing inspiration from and activism for various communist parties, progressivism , leftism, social justice, democratic freedoms, civil rights, human rights, freedom of expression etc., are loudly denouncing the arrest of the seven activists allegedly engaged in support of various underground groups waging war for several decades against the state of India. These worthies never spoke against the externment of Swami Paripurnananda from Hyderabad by the Government of Telangana.
2. No underground groups especially armed like the Peoples War Groups of the Maoist Communist Parties can sustain their war for more than three decades without an above ground infrastructure to collect funds, arms and ammunition, provide intellectual support through academia and the media. These constitute the, Urban Naxalites in universities. They are also infiltrated into several government organisations . Some of these have links with international groups with similar ideology and methodology of work.
3. I am very well conversant with the activities and organisations of the above -ground infrastructure and how it functions because as a student, I was part of the Communist effort to pull down the Nehru government which was characterised by the international communist ideologues (Stalin, Rajni Palmi Dutt among others) that the Nehru government is a lackey of Anglo-American imperialist powers and therefore requires to be pulled down through an armed revolution led by the Communist Party of India. B T Ranadeve replaced the moderate and popular P C Joshi as the Secretary of the CPI. Their armed actions were
largely evident in Telangana, adjacent Andhra districts, Kerala, West Bengal and a few places in Maharashtara. Sardar Patel was the Home Minister of the central government and Rajaji was the Premier of the Madras Province. Those wise men realised that in order to put an end to the communist insurgency the above ground infrastructure should be disabled, Preventive Detention Act was enacted. Under that Act, hundreds of Communists and fellow travellers were preventively detained. And the armed gangs were largely eliminated though armed strikes .
4. It is a philosophy of the Communist Parties that the legal procedures and laws of the bourgeois capitalist, comprador state should be fully exploited to save the above ground infrastructure and the captured underground armed persons. As a student in the college of Engineering, Guindy (Chennai) during 1948-’52, I was drawn to the communist ideology. I was indoctrinated. I was hiding underground communists in my hostel room and circulating their pamphlets and news-sheets about communist guerrillas’ victories over Razakars and Nizam’s armed police in Telangana. Elimination of class enemies by any means ( like “informers” being summarily, publicly shot without any trial) came to be morally justified in the interest of people’s war against the capitalist regime(s).
5. No civilised, multi-party democratic State can give quarter to the ideologically inebriated persons whether they be in the academia or media or in trade unions or other organisations. The fundamental rights that are guaranteed to the citizen of Bharat are for those who have faith in and commitment to a multi-party democratic state and not to the votaries of dictatorship of the proletariat. Several persons are outraged very sincerely about the injustice and inequality that prevails in our society. Most of them are wedded to a peaceful resolution of the problems through discussion, debate and laws made in the legislatures. A minority of ideologically inebriated persons are however bent upon destroying civility in society and orderly government of laws.
6. It is astounding that communists who supported Indira Gandhi’s Emergency rule in which some compliant Judges ruled that a citizens’ life can be forfeited by any action of the government and that he has no legal remedy are accusing the present government as being worse than the Emergency. In no communist -ruled state like former USSR and currently China, North Korea, Vietnam or are parties other than the communist party and newspapers other than those run by the government and the ruling communist party were allowed. True lovers of genuine democracy should not be cowed down by the cacophony being raised by the Urban Naxalites in various professions and institutions. (688 words)
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