remain as a part or in the strategic
alliance led by the US imperialism.
In reality, the BJP govt. is only
carrying the polices of congress
forward. Therefore, the basic
policies never become a point of
debate between them. It is for this
reason alone the ruling as well as
opposition would evade the
discussion on these policies as
though they are acting so with
common understanding. What the
congress is mainly interested in is
how to regain the lost power so
that it can implement the same
policies. This is the essence of
their opposition. So they seek to
divert the people’s attention
towards the issues that over not
basic or that are not so important.
They raise their voice on issues
or events that attract people’s
immediate attention. They spend
time on petty issues or quarrels
or loud talk. Their worry and
attempt on all occasions remain
how to transform the people’s
discontentment into votes in
elections,
The Congress claims to
oppose the Hindutva of BJP and
Sang Parivar. But the people’s
experience show that, on many
occasions, the Congress did not
act in a trust worthy manner when
the offensive actions of Hindutva
forces were to be halted or
resisted.
Now from Rahul Gandhi to
other Congress leaders are
engaged in the attempts to parade
themselves as Hindus. They are
engaged in the feats to impress
the people that the Congress is not
like BJP which is seeking to
spread Hinduism in a hard, crude
or aggressive manner, but works
to spread Hindu religion in a soft,
non-aggressive and skilful
manner. All this is only a part of
their attempt to reap their “share”
of Hindu votes.
Mar - Apr - 2018
There was a time when the
Congress was exercising
monopoly power at the Centre for
a long time. The regional and non-
congress parties in the states had
carried on protests and agitations
complaining that the Congress
party had concentrated all powers
in its hands and was showing
discrimination and big brotherly
attitude towards the states.
However these protests and
agitations have neither taken the
shape of struggles for a federal
system in real sense of the term
nor were they aimed at bringing
basic alternative policies to the
fore. These protests and
agitations have ended in installing
a coalition or alliance of non-
congress govts in power at the
Centre or gaining a share in power
or some benefits by aligning with
one or other major ruling class
party. These Parties talked about
representing the regional interests
of the states, but they had no basic
policy differences with the major
ruling class parties. Working in the
interests of landlords, big
bourgeois;
getting
some
investments from the foreign and
Indian corporate houses and the
Central funds had become their
policy. Now and then, they are
seen expressing little dissent and
anger that the Centre was
discriminating and doing injustice
to their state. But it only turned out
to be an attempt to tide over the
growing discontentment of the
people in the state and divert their
attention. Similarly, now and then,
they will be raking up the water
disputes between the states and
try to rouse opposition, emotions
and tensions between the people
of different states. We see the
state govts or the sections of ruling
classes trying to project
themselves as the champions of
the just rights of their own states.
However the ruling classes are
repeatedly proving that they are
least interested in reasonably and
completely solving the disputes. In
fact, they have their own interest
in continuing and perpetuating
them. But it is only the people on
both sides who suffer most
because of this.
The decade long protest led
by the TRS for a separate state
had touched no basic problem of
the people. Not only this. The TRS
sought to divert people’s attention
from those problems. It sought to
paint tar on the heroic Telangana
peasant struggle of 1946-51. It
sought to show the fighters who
laid down their lives in this struggle
as well as other anti-feudal
struggles (Ailamma, Doddi
Komaraiah, Komuram Bheem,
etc.) as those who added the
strength and fame to the demand
for separate Telangana. It
eulogised the Nizam regime,
which butchered thousands of
best daughters and sons of
peasants as a great ruler who
toiled to develop Telangana. It
confused and mixed up a good
number of progressive writers,
poets, artists and historians with
the advocates of separate
Telangana and sought to distort
their views and contributions. On
one side, it dismissed the
communist ideas as obsolete; on
the other hand, it sought to utilise
the communists and revolu-
tionaries for separate to Telangana
agitation. Once in power in the
Telangana state, it roped as many
leaders as possible from other
parties like Congress and TDP
into the TRS and began to preach
that the Telangana state needed
no other party and TRS was
everything and all in all. It sought
to ruthlessly trample the rights and
struggles of people. It adopted an
attitu de of supporting the BJP
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