In the last few years, the Communists have actively engaged in their failed attempts to show their support for national unity. Past 5-7 years have observed their active participation to polarise the youth into believing that they are the predominant contributors to the integrity and unity of the nation as the experienced communists are aware that ‘nationalism’ is their weakest and sensitive point. They are aware that communists have been vehemently opposed to nationalism, directly or indirectly, and have deliberately deceived the nation at every crucial juncture in history. This is why they are putting forward all their effort into creating a situation of confusion amongst people by making false claims of patriotism and covering up their mistakes by accusing others of communalism. Besides this, the communists are deliberately sponsoring programs for distorting history and interpreting it according to their own interests and misleading people. Their primary goal is to mislead the younger generation, who aren’t familiar with the history of the freedom movement and the dual role played by the communist in that period due to their sick mentality. The communists supported the British by spying during the country’s freedom movement. Even during the Chinese invasion in 1962, the role of the communists of India was suspicious as they were in support of China.
In a democracy, the people decide who their leader will be. The communists who were elected several times by the public in the past to take over the reins of power in various states are today completely rejected by the same. West Bengal, where the communist-ruled from 1977 to 2011, is diminishing in the state. A similar case can be observed in Tripura, where the communist was a ruling party from 1978 to 1988, and from 1993 to 2018, is in opposition today. They have 7 MPs in the Rajya Sabha, while there are only 5 MPs in the Lok Sabha. Kerala is the only state where the communist is in power. Overall, the people of the country have completely rejected the Left.
Communist thought is not Indian. It is an idea that grew out of a reaction to so-called capitalism, which has its branches in India, but the thought/concept is foreign. Their alliance is with the Muslim supporter movement—’Tablighi Jamaat’. Communists’ attitude towards nationalism has always been opportunistic and deceitful. They consider India to be an aggregate of various small identities, which is why they believe that sooner or later, India will have to be divided into many pieces. In such a situation, how will they be proud of India’s cultural heritage and identity? This very thought of ‘tukde tukde gang’ poses a threat to the unity and integrity of India. That’s why comrades like KM Ashraf and Hiren Mukherjee did not consider India to be a nation but considered it only as a group of states. Now, after 2014, when the nationality of India is at the centre of discussion, they have been taking full advantage of it by wearing the mask of patriotism.
At the time of independence, apart from the Muslim League, the political faction of the communist had justified the creation of a religion-based Pakistan. It was the communist that provided Mohammad Ali Jinnah with all the arguments that he needed for the partition of Pakistan. During the post-independence Communist regime in Kerala, Chief Minister E.M.S. Namboodiripad created a new Muslim-majority district—Mallapuram. Inspired by foreign ideology and funded by foreign funds, the communist could never associate themselves with India, nor could they consider it as their own country. These are the same people who refused to accept Indian independence after independence.
When Charu Mazumdar, the father of Naxalism in India, said, “Chairman of China Mao is our chairman”, then Indian communists also raised slogans in his voice. Even in the Indo-China war, the communists were seen supporting China. When Pokhran’s successful nuclear test took place in 1998 under the leadership of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the communists called it—a threat to world peace, but when China and Russia conducted nuclear tests, communists applauded them. Due to vote bank politics, many Bangladeshi Muslims have systematically been given entry to the marginal areas of West Bengal, which today remains a big challenge to the demography of India and is posing a threat to the security of the nation.
It has always been witnessed that the communists have openly supported the separatist forces. Be it separatists of Kashmir or Naxalites, the communists, have always supported them in their misdeeds. During the Communist rule of West Bengal, the separatist Islamic fundamentalism was patronised by them. Communists never give importance to the opposition. For example, in states like Kerala and West Bengal, they have played Holi of blood with the workers of opposing ideology whenever they have been in power. For the last few years, it has been witnessed that RSS volunteers and BJP workers are continuously being killed in Kerala. This is probably because communist thought believes in a one-party system. China is a living example of this, where the media has to work as an organ under the government, and the communists of India raise slogans of ‘Freedom of Expression’.
The days of communism are now gone in other countries, including India. In some countries where there is totalitarian communism, cases of gross violations of human rights are seen on a daily basis. In India, those who claim to be comrades and make baseless claims of taking the country towards peace and progress through communist ideology— this is their hoax. India is the revered and virtuous land of Lord Shri Ram, Shri Krishna, Buddha, Mahavir, and Guru Nanak Dev, where the eternal culture and civilisation are such, due to which there have been talks of democracy, secularism, and equality since the pre-independence period— for this India does not need a communist manifesto.
Now the public is aware that these are the same people who have ruined the education policy of India and have destroyed the Indian (Hindu) culture, civilisation, and social structure. They have promoted casteism, regionalism, linguism, poor-rich, and communalism. They are the ones who created the distinction between farmer-labourer and industrialist-labourer. Later on, they encouraged separatism, terrorism, Naxalism, and land struggle, whereas the Communists have conspired to weaken India through anti-national activities under the guise of human rights and freedom of speech. Despite all this, India’s social structure, internal thinking, educational system, family and society’s rites, and religious sentiments have remained intact. Since 2014, after watching the work done by the government under the able leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the people of India have rejected the communist ideas outright.
The Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi, writes in The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, titled ‘Talk with Communist’ that-” Communists have come to consider it their supreme duty, their supreme service, to create disaffection, to generate discontent and to organise strikes. They do not see whom this discontent these strikes will ultimately harm. Half knowledge is one of the worst evils. The best is either full knowledge or ignorance. These People seek knowledge and instruction from Russia. Our communist seems to be in this pitiable state. I call it a pitiable rather than shameful state, for I feel that they are to be pitied, rather than blamed. These people have now been fanning the fire of disunity bequeathed to us by the British”.
What had been said by Mahatma Gandhi in 1947, in their context, is applicable even after 75 years, as there is no difference in the theory and practice of communists. Today they have been excluded due to their anti-national activities in Indian politics. No matter what the communists do to declare themselves as patriots, it should be known to all that the Communists always consider India as a multi-national state. They completely reject the fact that India is a united, indivisible country, which is divided into some provinces on the basis of administrative convenience.
(The writer is the Vice-President of the BJP in Bihar and an Honorable Member of the Bihar Legislative Council)
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