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COMMUNIST PARTY
OF INDIA (MARXIST LENINIST) RED FLAG
CENTRAL COMMITTEE
Date 11-12-2018
Press Statement
Elections to legislative assemblies
The results of elections to five legislative
assemblies in the States of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana
and Mizoram have in general brought a strong indication that the BJP, the ruling
party at the centre, is losing by all means. The BJP is ousted from power in
three major Hindi speaking states in the very heartland of the central and
north India. Its defeat in Chatisgarh is so devastating as its chief minister
himself had to struggle very hard to scrape through. It could not make any
considerable gain in either Telangana or Mizoram that way.
The communal frenzy that the Sangh
parivar whipped up by way of cow-vigilante lynching’s cold blooded
assassinations of secular democratic intellectuals, malicious interventions to
subvert the constitutional institutions such as the Reserve Bank of India, CBI,
Central Vigilance Commission, and the election commission even, did not help it
to facilitate the perpetual communal polarization that it was trying to make in
a pan-Indian scale. Its last ditch attempt to bring in the ghost of
build-Ram-Temple issue also did not make any demarcate effect. Instead, the
devastation of the national economy caused by Modi Raj that accelerated the anti-people
economic policies as part of Liberalisation- Privatisation- Globalisation
reforms that were dictated by IMF-WB-WTO institutions of Imperialist Finance
Capital created severe crisis to social life of the toiling people such as
peasants and workers with an emphasis to the rural working class and Petit
Peasant. This has ignited their wrath. The peasants look to have turned from
the suicide point to a fighting mode as evident from a number of marches that
class did to Mumbai and DELHI. Further, its
implementation of GST for the corporates flouting federalism, demonetization
to erode the unorganized sector increased sell out of PSUs, Malya - Nirav Modi
- Rafael scam like skeletons of corruption and nepotism added to the popular anger
in writing their verdict against the saffron abettors of the imperialist design
to unmake the Republic
. It is notable that
the Congress promised the farmers that it shall write of debt and declare
minimum support price for paddy-like crops in case it gets elected. Though it
does not look to have expressed any serious policy shift from its committed
line of LPG, congress's move to render promises to farmers stood in stark
contrast with the Modi Raj's refusal to even address the demand for loan waiver
even when the polling was going on in various states. So, this verdict is
clear. It comes from the peasants, the 'Annadatas' the breadwinners of India, that
the communal fascists will not be allowed to erase them. It is now coming in a big
way to erase Modi Raj in the parliament elections in 2019, for which the nation
is gearing up.
With crumbling
banks and the RBI governor himself being replaced with puppets, judges being
shown the way to write favorable judgements and open dislike to the
Constitution of the country, Modi Raj is not in a path of introspection. It is
the duty of the responsible political forces to complete the task of its
thorough ouster in 2019 and the ascendancy of a rule with clear alternative
policies for the people, making path breaking move qualitatively for democratic
and secular values with the core content of socialism as the Constitution
heralds. For such duty bounded task the Left forces should rally to lead the
workers, peasants and all the toiling masses in the fight for such alternative
and shall gain mature tactical wisdom to unite with all the democratic forces
hinged on to the said content of alternative.
MS Jayakumar,
General Secretary