madani and cpm

supporting madani or more presicely asking for his support was WRONG.

nothing can justify it.

the kerala party went through a complete turmoil on the same question. there was a split in the party. mv raghvan quit the party.

the party came out stronger after the crisis. the kerala party led the all india campaign against communalism. it showed the way of combatting both hindu and muslim fundamentalism.

we lost all that we had gained then.

it is unfortunate the same people who took a principled stand, people like tk hamsa, k.e.n. hamid chengamangalur are now toeing a different line.

the whole tactic is myopic.

we are answerable to the future generations.

i was ashamed of seeing a poster of madani and com vijayan on the same dias.

that was not the whole campaign the 'human chain' and then the 'human wall' was all about.

unless we are vehement against both hindu, muslim and christian fundamentalism in the same breath, it is not effective.

the problem is we are soft on muslim and crhristian fundamentalism.

there are no shortcuts in politics.

we criticise gandhi for supporting khilafat movement. his argument was it is anti british.

we are committing the same mistake.

anything and everything, anti-american cannot be endorsed.

anything and everything, anti-congress, anti-bjp cannot be endorsed.

prakash kutty. 

lalgarh and beyond (cont.)

there is severe dissillusionment about our govt amongst our main constituency namely the working class and specially the small peasantry. there is severe mistrust about us. the feeling is the same about the govt in maharashtra in the context of the sez being planned in raigad dist in this state.

the govt here is seen as an estate agent for mukesh ambani.

unfortunately we are also seen as estate agents for tatas and the saleem group.

our enemies have been successful is creating this fear about us.

we have been hardly imaginative in evolving our developmental agenda.

we completed our role of distributing the land to the poor. what after that.

our enimies term it as 'equal distribution of poverty'

we have done great in the egaliterial process. but we severely lag in general humal index.

education, health, crime, hygene, women, sports bengal is hardly different from any other state in india.

a historic oppurtunity about the state of minorities, a model could have been created.

we failed miserably. the state of muslims is no different than any of the states in india.

we have to be imaginative in our developmental agenda.

economic prosperity within the capitalist system, better education, better health services, better infrastructure, a very good RESPONSIVE ADMINISTRATION is the need of the hour.

we can win short wars on the streets the way we won after nandigram. i remember we took out victory rallies after the ' recapture' of nandigram.

it won't last long.

its a political war. we are at the loosing end. we have committed mistakes. we had become arrogant. we had lost pulse of the small peasantry.

people like laxman seth should be isolated. the gram panchayats should take over. dissent should be encouraged at the grassroot level.

maharashtra govt conducted a refrendrum on the land aquisition for the sez by the ambanis. we could have done the same.

but people like laxman seth is the election and the result. he can take the decision unanimously (read unilateraly) on behalf of the naive peasantry. we dont punish him. we reward him with a parlimentary ticket. people think....they know what is going to be tommorrow.

we have to win the hearts of the people by making some drastic changes in our conduct. conduct i mean our personel conduct and administrative conduct amongst people.

russel said in a communist country 'all are equal, some are more equal' we should prove him wrong.

we both in kerala and in bengal are over enthusiastically trying to prove him right.

last but not least. about bengal.

we need to isolate mamta.

we need to win over her supporters from the downtrodden. the desertion of the ranks from our party should be stopped.

we need to regain the trust of the small peasentry.

we need to regain the trust of the minorities.

declare openly we committed a mistake with nandigram and singur.

we should have taken the small peasentry into confidence.

start a new policy initiative for the educative reformation amongst the minorities.

start a recruipment drive(filling vacancies) for the minorities.

have a policy for upliftment of the minorities.

say sorry about the rizwannur episode.

bring a change in leadership. so that this looks like a new initiative and not a cut and paste job.

new face. new leadership, new policy initiative.

it looks new.

ITS AGRESSIVE. IT HAS TO BE AGRESSIVE. IT SHOULD NOT LOOK APOLEGETIC.

we are revolutionaries. we commit mistakes. we ACCEPT them. we CORRECT them.

we have to show it now.

NOW...

regards

prakash kutty

lalgarh and beyond

may be, we have lost touch with reality.

may be, we are heading a very unpopular govt.

may be, we have alinieated our main constituency. ..namely the working class and agrarian workers and the small peasentry.

may be, 'giving them back in the same coin' was not such a good idea from the home minister himself.

it is high time we realise the support base of the so called tmc goons is pre dominantly the poor. many of them are from our deserted ranks.

there is severe mistrust amongst peasantry about losing their land to the 'capitalists'

i had predicted this result....unfortuna tely.

i had predicted this failed election result would give us an oppurtunity to look within..

i am terribly wrong.

i want to be the devil's advocate to know why is tmc gaining ground.

lets go to the basics...

there is a difference in fighting the sidhartha shankar ray era, the emergency and now.

we are essentially fighting our enemies who have the our contituency (working class, poor peasantry) fighting us.

we need to fight mamta but win over her supporters. we need to isolate her. for this we have to gain back our main constituency.

talking about saving 'our poor' from 'their poor' is plainly playing into the hand of our class enimies.

our 'developmental agenda' both in bengal and kerala (amusement park, five star hotel) have gone seriously wrong.

we are losing ground

lets realise it.

sooner the better.

the issues discussed by rajashi is just a tip of the ice berg.

it very easy to go into the jingoism mode and say lets take up arms and finish the tmc.

thats what we did after nandigram.

then lot many people cheered our comrades. all of us cheered when our home minister declared ' we gave them in the same coin'

we were not able to gauage the discontent amongst the peasants of nandigram.

we sufferred.

i repeat.

WE NEED TO ISOLATE MAMTA.

WE NEED TO WIN HER SUPPORTERS BACK INTO OUR FOLD.

WE SHOULD RESPECT THE VERDICT AND PAUSE OUR DEVELOPMENT AGENDA.

LISTEN TO ALL THE VOICES WITHIN WHO WERE IN DISAGREEMENT WITH THIS AGENDA.

START A AGITATIONAL PROGRAMME TO TAKE OUR CLOSED FACTORIES SO THAT NEW FACTORIES CAN BE STARTED.

EXPOSE THE REAL PEOPLE WHO OPPOSE INDUSTRIALISATION OF BENGAL.

DON'T TREAT AGRICULTURE AS A FAILURE, DOING AGRICULTURE IS OUT OF FASHION IN LEFT CIRCLES (at least it looks that way)

THINK IMAGINATEVELY HOW TO MAKE AGRICULTURE MORE PRODUCTIVE AND PROFITABLE.

DON'T COME ACROSS AS ESTATE AGENTS OF TATA AND SALEEM GROUP

UNFORTUNATELY THAT IS WHAT IS CREATING THIS MISTRUST AND THE DESERTION OF OUR MAIN CONSTITUENCY TO THE PRETENTIOUS GRASSROOT PARTY (TRINAMOOL).

prakash kutty.

the way forward

mayawati has declared unconditional support to the upa.

one more of the 'valuable partners' in this election has deserted us.

deve gowda and his infamous son have already gone into the congress camp.

unless we aim for 120 seats on our own in next five years all this third front rhetoric is baseless and futile.

for that there has to a plan.

where can the seats come from?

which are the states we should concentrate on?

if interested we can carry on this discussion.

we have to change the situation. how is the question.

prakash kutty. 

election results and federalism

this election was termed to be a 'turning point' in the revolutionary struggle of this country. unfortunately it is true but due to different reasons.

the question of a federal state and the third front is purely a convinient argument.

many times i feel we in a very unsientific way, a very non-marxist way try to argue and interpret the political compulsions and make it 'revolutionary turning point'.

rather than wasting time on the regional parties we should build an independent strong national level party.

we don't have a single assembly seat in andhra pradesh. probably for the first time in the electoral history.

there is no alternative to building an national level party which would lead the coalition from the front.

hiding behind arguments of federalism for short term electoral gains with alliances with non-relilable fuedal corrupt parties is a non- starter.

we should not hesitate to discuss the short comings, grave mistakes, serious diversion within the party for the interest of our party.

i was in kerala recently. i beleive com pinaray is innocent.

but the party is completely out of touch with reality in dealing with the situation.

it is being percieved widely amongst the public that party is taking extra efforts to save com secretary from a investigation.

why can't com vijayan face an investigation.

it would set an excellent example in public life.

it is seen as sheer arrogance by the people of kerala.

the projects of an amusement park and an five star hotel as business ventures by the party is also very misplaced.

the 'tools of imperialism, capitalism' the church indulges in building hospitals, schools. the sndp, the nair samajam all indulge in similar activities or even start banks.

these steps are percieved to be arrogant and completely out of touch with the people.

if com VS is asked to step down. only discipline cannot be an issue. what is the issue he was trying to bring up also has to be taken into consideration.

all are equal some are more equal cannot be tolerated.

both in bengal and kerala we head a govt. we have the home ministry. why can't we contain the voilence.

why are private armies been encouraged by both sides.

we are the most advance section of the society. why can't we have the best security agency in place.

if a political worker is attacked, injured or killed; the home ministry has to be held responsible.

if there were dyfi workers killed in tallachery what is our home minister doing?

if there were farmers terrorised by our party cadres allegedly led by laxman sheth, what was the home ministry doing?

if there were our sympathisers who had to stay in refugee camps for more than an year,

why is the home minister held accountable?

laxman sheth might have been censored internally within the party, what about his accountability toward the public. he was rewarded with a party ticket for the lok sabha.

the private army of the cpm tackeled the situation in nandigram and the home minister says 'we paid them in the same coin"

in this case it is the small farmers who refused to give away there farmland to a industrial house.

we would call them the 'oppressed' in other parts of the country.

LAVLEEN, LAXMAN SHETH, NANDIGRAM, SINGUR, MADANI, RIZWANUR...these are serious abberations.

we should act and practice like a revolutionary party and not pretend to be one.

i think we are more and more behaving like a progressive democratic parties as in europe who have abandoned communism. atleast that is the case in bengal and kerala.

i am very curious to know about tripura.

but no body is interested.

we have seriously lost touch.

if you check the thread whether we should participate in the govt or not, but for a few exceptions every body was bathing the glory of a historic elections. there came a time when we were discusssing prime ministers from our party.

nobody expected such a rout in the elections.

i had predicted 6 in kerala, around 22 in bengal, none in TN.

i presume i was close.

prakash kutty.

 

looking inward.

i was in kerala recently. there was a slogan by some of our comrades 'VOTE UDF, SAVE LDF'.

there is severe dissillusionment amongst the people, our sympathisers, our cadres.

the communication is off. or its only one way... from the top...

LAVLEEN, NANDIGRAM, RIZWAN(SUICIDE? ), MADANI, LAXMAN SHETH  are serious abberations. ..

prakash kutty.

introspection after the election results.

 i think the elections results this time would give all of us an oppurtunity to look inward and correct the mistakes we have identified.

its no use to blame our class enemies about the situation. they would obviously take advantage of the situation.

we have to set our house in order.

prakash kutty.