1062 Problems of Farmers of India - Problems of Farmers of the World - I wish Shri V.V. LakshmiNarayana will accomplish what Lenin and Mao could not solve in their countries

When some new breeze comes we have to welcome it. Shri V.V. Lakshmi Narayana, IPS, Retd. Addl. Director General of Police, Maharashtra, - Retd. CBI JD, Hyderabad, has resigned his job, and come back to Telugu Lands. I greatly appreciate his sacrifice, because he might have forgone at least a small part of his Retirement Benefits, which he would have got substantially more, had he continued to the end. A few days back, I saw him speaking at a Villagers' Meeting at Yajali (also spelt as Yazali), near Karlapalem-Bapatla, Guntur District, Residual Andhra Pradesh. In that TV news bit, the audience were sitting on chairs. There may be some audience standing behind, and squatting on sides, but I could not see them. I may be wrong, but it looked to me, as though he was addressing the 'farmers' of Yazali. He was also reported to having said: "...The farmer is next only to God as he provides food and has the lion’s heart of a king. Farming should be made into a profitable exercise and farmers should look at some models of cooperative farming in Maharashtra...", source: http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/ex-ips-officer-vows-to-work-for-welfare-of-farmers/article23688386.ece.

I also greatly appreciate his noble sentiments, and his nobler objectives. A little bit of comparison between Shri Lakshminarayana and Shri I.Y.R. Krishna Rao, I.A.S., Retired Chief Secretary, Government of Andhra Pradesh, may not be odious or objectionable. While Shri Lakshminarayana has foregone nearly seven years of service benefits, howsoever small or sizable they may be, Shri I.Y.R. Krishna Rao, sipped them upto the sediment.

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My goal or job here, definitely not passing value judgements on others. But at the same time, it is necessary to point out that once persons come into public sphere, become celebrities, attract thousands of followers, and start preaching, it becomes unavoidable to examine the pros and cons of their preachings, and the way the attracted followers go.

ybrao-a-donkey's personal views, not intended to be imposed on others

Shri Lakshmi Narayana and Shri Narendra Modi have a common role-model Swami Vivekananda. Both quote SV profusely. Shri Modi too speaks of doubling the income of farmers in next xxx years. https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/pm-modi-hard-sells-pro-farmer-budget-proposals-says-agri-credit-raised-to-rs-11-lakh-crore/story-o5NlkKsFzUrh0eDGOrWtEJ.html.

I suggest that Shri Lakshmi Narayana will please visit Yajali village, and get some concrete information on the following aspects:

1(a). Names, and photos of farmers in the village who are medium and big farmers, who are land-owners. Criterion: During a Normal Harvest and Normal Market year, their agricultural income will be above their family maintenance expenses.

1(b). Names, and photos of farmers in the village who are medium and big farmers, who are land-owners. Criterion: During a Normal Harvest and Normal Market year, their agricultural income will be above their family maintenance expenses. Whether they cultivate the lands by personally tilling the soil, while taking help from laborers. White collared farmers who will not enter the fields, without umbrella and shoes will come into this list.

2. Names, and photos of farmers who are small farmers. Criterion: During a Normal Harvest and Normal Market year, their agricultural income willl be just sufficient to meet their family maintenance.

3. Names and photos of farmers, who are marginal farmers. Criterion: During a Normal Harvest and Normal Market year, their agricultural income willl NOT BE sufficient to meet their family maintenance. They have to do some other work such as agriculture LABOR on others' fields or do some other service/vending, for supplementing their income.

4. Names and photos of Agricultural Laborers.

5. Names and photos of persons engaged in other occupations.

6. Names and photos of persons who are unemployed.

7. Names and photos of persons who cannot do any work, owing to old age, physical challenges, other disabilities.

8. Names and photos of persons from Non-agricultural occupations who earn more than their F+C+S+OS+CE+HC (Food, clothing, shelter, old age security, children's education, health care).

9. Names and photos of persons from Non-agricultural occupations who earn just their FCSOSCEHC.

10. Names and photos of persons from Non-agricultural occupations who earn less than their FCSOCCEHC.

11. Names and photos of TENANT FARMERS as per Revenue Records.

12. Names and photos of TENANT FARMERS with no proof of Revenue Records.

13. Names and photos of persons who borrowed from Institutions.

14. Names and photos of persons who borrowed from Private Money Lenders.

15. Names and photos of persons who are Private Money Lenders.

16. Names and photos of Marginal Farmers and Agricultural Laborers who are occupying Govt. lands, Dotted lands.

17. Names and photos of Medium and Big farmers who are occupying Govt. lands, Dotted lands.

18. Names and photos of persons who are Absentee Landlords, with details such as -where they live, their other address, occupation, when they are expected to come back to the village for permanent settlement. Whether they are gone for ever. Example: PIOs. IPS-IAS-Group1 Officers, Doctors, lawyers, judges, Chartered Accountants, Corporate Directors, Big Politicians etc. in town/cities who do not need these lands, yet retain them for various reasons. How many of them have given written leases? How many of them have given Oral Leases? How many of them cultivate using Clerks-Workers? How many of them depend on their relatives?

Wherever photos are not available/forthcoming, the boxes can be temporarily kept blank.

To start with, Shri Lakshmi Narayana can feed all these details into his laptop, into text files. Photos can be stored as jpgs. Combined doc. files can also be obtained using MS Word. Data processing, Data analyses can be done later.



Incomplete. Shall try to complete with more detailed analyses, evidence, and information.

893 (Part 1 of 10 series ) How did a dictator like Mr. Mao Tse Tung wake up to start a New Party in his tyrannical Empire?

Late Mao's image courtesy Wikipedia.org.
DeccanChronicle.Com, published from its archive, a 50 year old news which says that Mr. Mao Tse Tung, the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party has decided to have a new Communist Party for China based on one hundred percent 'Maoism' , and if necessary the new party would be set up in parallel to the existing one. Link to read this 50 year old news: Click here to go to the Deccan Chronicle.Com, to read this newsreport.

Tokyo, Jan. 25, 1967.
"...The Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party has decided to have a new Communist Party for China based on one hundred percent 'Maoism' , and if necessary the new party would be set up in parallel to the existing one. ..."

ybrao-a-donkey's observations, which are not intended to be imposed on others

Even in 2017, we find that there is no second party in China. That means, either Mr. Mao Tse Tung could not succeed in launching his second party in 1967. Or, he might have launched, but subsequently it might have been merged either by himself or his successors, into the Old Chinese Communist Party.

Normally, Dictators and Life Time Presidents ruling countries do not think of themselves launching a second party, or allow others to start a rival party to the official totalitarian ruling party. There must have been exceptional circumstances which might have forced Late Mao Tse Tung to talk of a new party. Might be, at that particular point of Chinese History, Mao Tse Tung might have lost control over the party founded by himself, and kept it under his feet. There must have been some internal revolt.

I am not a supporter or sympathizer of Mr. Mao Tse Tung. As a school boy, I might have developed my dislike for Mao and China, probably because he himself ordered or acquiesced when China invaded India in 1962, and occupied about 36,000 sq. miles of Indian Territory in Arunachal Pradesh, and Ladakh (Jammu & Kashmir). Besides, under his leadership itself, in 1959 China tromped on Tibet and occupied it. In its history, Mao-Dictated China never respected the rights of other Nations. His successors are continuing the same policies even in 2017.

(Mother) Communist Party of India split in 1962, While the Rightists in the erstwhile Communist Party in India supported USSR (Soviet Russia) and Late Indira Gandhi, the Leftists who formed a separate party CPIM adored China and Mao Tse Tung. In those days, CPIM chose to acquiesce/ ignore the territorial aggressions of China.

Question: Why are you digging up/ raking up this question now? Mr. Mao Tse Tung exists only in history now!

Ans: True. Mr. Mao is dead long back. But the problem of viewing Communism / Marxism / Total Socialism (as distinct from Fabian Gradualist Socialism), as something draconian and anachronistic / obsolete / outdated theory is continuing, by those who get their crumbs from the Capitalist Tycoons. Personally, I (yb-a-donkey) viewed Communism / Marxism / Total Socialism as something which can be executed / implemented with democratic fervour. In my previous blogposts, I have always proposed and tried to popularise the idea that several Communist / Marxist / Total Socialist Parties can co-exist side by side and compete with one another, just as bourgeoisie parties contest and compete with one another in a Capitalist Economies and States.

LACK OF COMPETITION CAN ROT ANY SYSTEM, INCLUDING COMMUNIST / MARXIST /SOCIALIST SYSTEMS

Any system can atrophy, decay and stagnate when there is no healthy competition, and Communism is not an exception. Maoism under the dictatorship of Mao tse Tung too rotted as long as there was one party rule of his own party. IN Jan. 1967, Mr. Mao might have found some rivals, who were earlier his followers, rising their heads, and challenging his authority with sizable support from Members of the Party. A situation might have arisen where Late Mao might have found himself in a precarious stage of being dumped by his own followers. As a strategy he might have thought of a new Party, to challenge his rivals.

IT IS GOOD THAT INDIAN COMMUNIST PARTIES HAVE JOINED MAINSTREAM ELECTION POLITICS.

It is good that Indian Communist Parties, with the exception of Maoists of AOB Border, an some pockets of JhanKhand and West Bengal, have accepted democratic method of participating in elections. The problem with them is, they behave like bourgeoisie parties, owing to electoral compulsions. Deviations from the Basic Principles of Communism made them lose public sympathy, and they have become laughing stock. Occasionally, they lament jointly and severally, that Communists should get united, work jointly, to defeat Congress or BJP or some other party. As at 2017, the combined voting power of CPI and CPIM will not be sufficient to displace BJP or Congress. Then, what will be the using of their contesting together? Every Communist Party in India, by whatever name it is called, has to reinvent itself with better public images, but without parting with the basic tenets of Communism and Marxism.

Communist Parties should compete, and not unite

Competing Communist Parties, to popularise their Total Socialist principles and strategies, can prove to the Indian Citizens and also the outside world, that Communism is not an outdated totalitarian-dictatorial-tyrannical doctrine, but a vibrant-people-responsive practically working philosophy, which strives to bring in justice to the suffering Working Class. Indian Communist Parties have another problem.

Failure of Organised Sector Workers to help Unorganised Sector Workers

Communist Parties have an erroneous impression that the Organised Sector Unionised Workers who successfully coerced their employers to part with some sort of good wages, will work for the upliftment of unorganised sector multitudes and workers. This Organised Sector Employees uplifting the Unorganised Sector Workers, has not taken place because the Organised Sector Workers started spending their earnings on gold, share market investments, speculative real estate transactions cornering large number of house-sites and houses, becoming absentee-landlords of agricultural farms. The Organised Sector of Working Class forgot that it has a responsibility for its brother workers who are toiling in unorganised sector. Organised Working Class has started looking down upon the starving and suffering unorganised workers, as somebody suffering from contagious diseases. Organised Sector started believing that they themselves have merit to deserve higher pay and perks.

Was Long March so glorious and so true?

Personally, I have considered in the past, and even now I consider that Long March was exaggerated and magnified beyond proportions by hagio-graphic writers. This area of hagiographic hyperbolic magnifications of Long March need greater investigation.

To continue. This is a 1000 page subject. सशेष. ఇంకా ఉంది.