extraction of surplus from
agriculture by input producer MNCs
and cartels formed by big business.
Under the guise, on the long run,
the ruling classes are determined
to alienate the peasants from their
land by using economic levers. It
also resorted to forceful eviction of
peasants from their lands to
present them in a golden platter to
the big businesses.
The BJP led alliance is using
all these fascist methods only to
serve the interests of imperialist
capital and exploitation of Indian
people. Hence it should be
defeated in the coming Lok Sabha
elections.
The defeat of BJP in recent
elections has kindled hopes in the
Congress party to regain the
power. During the last five years,
the Congress claimed that every
pro-imperialist and pro-big
bourgeois measure taken by the
BJP was initiated by it. When the
Manmohan Singh government
introduced GST bill, BJP opposed
it vociferously. The same bill was
introduced by the BJP and this time
Congress opposed it but helped to
enact it. The same was true in the
case of allowing foreign direct
investment into retail trading and
defence. It is so because the
Congress is not different from the
BJP in serving the interests of big
bourgeoisie and imperialist
powers. It has taken up the issue
of corruption during BJP rule,
mainly Rafale deal as its main plank
of campaign. Instead of fighting the
communal agenda of BJP and
opposing its onslaught on
democratic values, it resorted to
appeasing Hindu sentiments to
show itself as no less Hindu than
the BJP and thus harmed the
secular traditions prevailed in
Indian cultural life. It is vying with
BJP in doling out populist schemes
such as farm loan waiver, input
subsidy, Universal Basic Income
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and so on. It is banking mainly on
the ‘misrule’ of BJP and on its own
muscle and money power to win the
elections. It gave the call to defeat
the communal fascism of BJP to
rally forces in opposition around it.
At present the regional parties
are playing an important role in the
formation of government at the
Centre. Coalition governments
became order of the day. The
regional parties are joining hands
with BJP or Congress to form NDA
or UPA. These alliances are only
marriages of political convenience
as they are not based on any
democratic principles though they
claim to have a common minimum
programme for name sake. Many
of the regional parties like BJD,
JO(U), THC, AIDMK, DMK are in
power in their respective states for
decades. Yet they failed to solve
any basic problem faced by the
people. They are doling out
populist schemes treating the
people as beggars waiting always
to receive alms from the rulers,
which the Congress and BJP are
mimicking. These parties are one
with the Congress and BJP in
implementing
globalisation,
privatisation and liberalisation
policies which fatten the big
bourgeoisie and foreign capital and
rob the poor. These parties are
dividing people on caste and
regional lines to gain their votes
and divert the people from the path
of struggle. Once came to the
power, they prostrate before the
imperialist capital and big
bourgeoisie. Chandrababu Naidu
who is placating himself as the king
pin in forging the anti-BJP alliance,
once described himself as the CEO
of the World Bank. The regimes of
regional parties are in forefront in
forcefully evicting the peasants
from their land and in handing over
the same to monopoly capitalists.
Hence they are thoroughly anti-
people in nature.
The Congress and its allies
along with the regional parties are
one in serving the interests of
imperialist capital and big
bourgeoisie. They make loud
noises when in opposition, but
once in power, they show
consensus among themselves in
implementing all the anti-people
policies. Hence the people must
have no illusion whatsoever in
them and continue their struggle
against them.
The political crisis as a
consequence of economic crisis is
intensifying the contradictions
among the various sections of the
ruling classes. In order to gain
power, they are mouthing loud
slogans to attract the peoples
attention. One section of the ruling
classes already floated the slogan
of oppose to the communalism or
communal fascism. The democratic
and left forces should not fall prey
to this slogan. They should be
conscious of the fact that these
slogans are only a part of divide
and rule policy adopted by the
Indian ruling classes. While the BJP
is using naked methods to rouse
communalism and communal
hatred in the name of Hindutva, the
Congress is using disguised
methods to realise its aims. Even
the peoples aspirations and
demands for the betterment of
living conditions are being
manipulated by the ruling classes
to whip up regional, caste and
religious hatreds among the
people.
The Indian parliamentary
system made a mockery of the
democracy. Various so-called
reforms made to the election
process, made it more difficult to
the common man to take part in the
elections with democratic spirit.
Only those who had money bags
are able to contest in the elections.
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