1046 New Round up First Fornight February 2018

News Reports indicate that Leaders of the Communist Party of India are trying to prevent split of the Party, on the question of whether to have Alliance with Indian National Congress, or not. While the Former General Secretary Shri Sitaram Yechuri favors an Alliance with Congress, on the ground that it is essential to overcome the Communal Forces and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ruling India, the present General Secretary and his Supporters insist that the Party has to maintain distance both from Congress and the BJP. Personally, ybrao-a-donkey views that it will be better if CPIM splits, and both the new Offsprings become Active so as to be ready to face the 2019 Elections.

Splits are not new to Communist Movements in India

Ever since the major first split of 1964, when the United Communist Party of India got split into CPI and CPI (Marxist), on the question of whether to support USSR & Mrs. Indira Gandhi on one side, or to support China and Mao de Zong on the other side, the Indian Communist Movement had undergone several splits.

CPI preferred to support the USSR (Russia) and Mrs. Indira Gandhi. CPIM preferred to support China and Mao, and relatively more militant approach. CPIM had strength in West Bengal, Kerala and Tripura. CPI's strength was geographically scattered in the entire India, and consequently, it could not come into power in any State, except as a Member of a Left Front. Gradually, with the death of veteran members and with few new Youth Admissions into the Party taking place, CPI lost its strength.

CPIM ruled West Bengal for three decades, and during the period it became more bourgeoisie and lost its Leftist Spirit. Finally, it surrendered itself to the demands of Industrial Houses like Tatas, started harassing small farmers in the name of Industrial Development, while its Opponent Ms. Mamta Banerjee's Trinamul Congress wooed the Peasants and Laborers, and routed out the Left Front from Bengal.

Since the 1964, during the five decades, more militant members of CPIM left it, to form further more militant, somewhat violent outfit Movements such as Naxals, Maoists, of various hues. They believed that Communist Revolution can be brought into India only with the barrel of a Gun. They mobilised Funds from Forest and Other Contractors, purchased Arms, attracted innocent Tribals into their Movements, killed some landlords, killed more Villagers in the name of Informers, and gunned down / blasted out hundreds of Policemen. Finally what happened? Central and State Governments were made to spend billions of Rupees on Police Forces, Vehicles, Copters and Helipads, Arms and Ammunition, Payments to Informers. Police too killed thousands of Naxals, Maoists, and Villagers on various pretexts during genuine and fake Encounters. Did the Professed Revolution come? Na. Could the Government annihilate the Naxals and Maoists completely? Na.

Are the CPI and CPIM truly self-introspective?

When compared to the Bourgeoisie Parties, Communal Parties, Dynastic Parties, Regional Parties, the CPI and CPIM may be more self-introspective. But it is only partially true. Both the CPI and CPIM do not have adequate internal democracies. They just make semblances of Introspection. But, real introspection never takes place.

Example: Was it a blunder, not to permit Late Jyothi Basu become Prime Minister of India, when a slight and vague opportunity arose in 1990s?

That step could not be termed as a blunder. At the most, it might have been a minor error. May be a minor error, which might have been based on foreseeabilities of ponderables. Had Late Jyothi Basu formed a Government at Centre, and become Prime Minister, believing that Congress would genuinely support him, he might have been disposed off, quicker than the time taken for the disposal of Messrs. Charan Singh, Deve Gowda, I.K. Gujral and Chandrasekhar. Reason: Congress and BJP were never accustomed to play a second fiddle for long periods. They are like maneaters which having tasted human blood will never compromise for anything lower. Congress and BJP want power at any cost. Mr. Jyothi Basu and the CPIM might have had to face disappointments and humiliations. All those ignominies were averted by the CPIM of that time, and Jyothi Basu was saved from his catastrophic political collapse.

Question: If CPI and CPIM do not, in unison with Congress and Regional Parties, make a United Fight against BJP, in the 2019 General Election, BJP will again come to Power.

This may happen. But, it can also happen even if Left Front supports Congress. Besides, after winning, Congress may continue with Soft Hindutva exhibited by Rahul Gandhi recently, old habit of appeasing Minorities, the same bourgeoisie policies and practices of the Congress-BJP ilk Crony-Capitalism. CPIM should not forget that Manmohan Singh, Ms. Sonia Gandhi and Congress ditched the CPIM in 2009.

Question: Do you want perpetuate the Rule of Mr. Narendra Modi?

Ans: Though it is by-and-large true that People of India and its States are vexed with both Congress, BJP, and Regional Parties like Samajvadi, BSP, RJD, Anna DMK, TDP, YSRCP, TRS etc. etc., they do not see CPI or CPIM as alternatives for the bourgeoisie Parties. They still prefer the Bourgeoisie Parties to the Left. May be because Bourgeoisie Paries throw more Currency Notes, more liquor, and cater more to their demands like Ration Cards, House sites, Health Cards, Reservations. Not to lag behind, Left Parties too tried these offers, but they could not match with he bourgeoisie parties.

Left Parties erroneously believe that their votes can be transferred in favor of Congress, and vice versa. But it is wrong. If Left Parties ask their sympathizers to vote for Congress in Constituency 'X', expecting that Congress will ask their Voters in Constituency 'Y' to vote for CPIM, will it really happen? A true Left sympathizer may not take money for his Vote. Yet, he may not vote for Congress. Such voter may not go to the Polling Station at all, or may prefer NOTA. A Bourgeoisie Party's Voters can get tempted because they do not have any ideological compulsions. Even Religious Beliefs cannot work as glue to bind them to their Parties. Consequently, Congress Voters can sell their votes for money, and vote for the Candidate whoever pays them.

Question: Do you mean to say that Left Parties should not Unite?

Ans: Communist Parties believe that there should be one United Leftist Party, fighting numerous Bourgeoisie Parties. On the other hand, I believe that there should be at least two very Active Leftist Parties contesting Elections with one another in every Constituency, relegating bourgeoisie parties to oblivion. That means CPI and CPIM can contest with one another. Similarly if CPIM splits, CPIM(1) can contest with CPIM(2). Voters should have choices in selecting and electing a Communist / Marxist / Socialist Party. If Communist Parties artificially unite, this will not happen. Voters will have One Communist Party and numerous Bourgeoisie Parties in the arena. Then those voters who are unhappy with the Monopolyist Artificial Communist Party will vote for the bourgeoisie party. Hence, let there be Natural competition among Leftist Parties in the Election. In fact, this is the meaning of 'Dictatorship of Proletariat'. The essence of this idea is: If all the Communist Parties belong to the Working Class, electing Working Class Persons as their Leaders, and bulk of the Population believes that they belong to the Working Class, then a true Ballot Revolution will take place. This may appear to be Utopian. Whether Utopian or not, correct things have to take place. In Telugu language, there is a proverb 'navvina nApa cElu panDavA?' (English meaning: While onlookers continue laughing, even stony soils will yield good harvest [provided hard work is done]).

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914 When will the Communists / Marxists / True Socialists fill this void in this Unipolar Politico-Economic World?

Everybody knows in this unipolar world, there is a philosophical and practical vacuum in the politico-economic sphere. IN SPITE OF ITS EXPLOITATIVE NATURE, Capitalism is ruling the roust. The peculiarity of Capitalism is, its tentacles overlap every other activity in the world including Religion which is supposed to be neither political, nor economic. Besides, Capitalism will not have any scruples, while everybody tries to accumulate moolah by hook or crook in the shortest time. In the process, porn, drugs, homicides, genocides, patricides, fraticides, occupy center space. Everything gets reversed. Non-essential goods become essential, like food, clothing. And essential goods become non-essential. From 1917 Bolshevik Revolution times to the 1949 the Chinese Revolution times, there were expectations that Communism / Marxism / Socialism will find some solace to the suffering masses. Unfortunately, both the Russian and Chinese Models of Communism failed to live upto expectations.

After the collapse of the erstwhile U.S.S.R., and its East European allies in 1991, and the volta facie of China from the Communist path, there is a huge vacuum in the ideological arena which is yet to be filled. Okay, Communism and Communists were dirty denizens of hell and hungry ghosts. But what next, if not Communism / Marxism / Total Socialism ? During the period, dozens of Economists have won Economics Nobel Prizes. Yet, none of the Nobel Laureates could come up with an alternative model to replace the Capitalist Monstrasities, even if conceding that Russian Monstrasities and Chinese Monstrasities will not work. What happened for the outstanding creative and intellectual capabilities of the NObel Laureates, nobody knows! Probably, after receiving the Nobel Prize at the pulpits of the Capitalist Priests, the pandits might have lost their sense of direction, magnitude or zeal.

In India, there is a greater vacuum. Both UPA and NDA failed miserably. In the 2014 May General election for INdian Lok Sabha, people graced great victory to BJP. Two classes of people have contributed to the victory of Mr. Narendra Modi. 1. Religious Hindu fanatics and pseudo Hindutva bigots who were waiting for "achchE din" since the days of Nathuram Godse. 2. Those who were extremely unhappy with the corrupt and misrule by Congress. The candle of Indian Intellect is burning from both the ends, engulfed by overzealous religious charlatans who do not know anything about religion masquerading as sadhus and sants, and the Growth Experts of Share Market Economics who do not know what happens in Indian villages, and nooks and corners of India Cities.

INDIAN COMMUNIST PARTIES ARE NOT READY TO FILL THIS VOID, WHILE THE SOCIALISTS OF EARLY INDEPENDENCE DECADES COOLLY LEFT THIS PLANET

The bane of the Indian Communists is that they could not liberate themselves from their bondage to China, in spite of knowing pretty well that China is no longer a Communist country.

MISERABLE FAILURE OF INDIAN COMMUNISTS EVEN AT PROVINCIAL AND GRASS ROOTS LEVEL

CPIM by its bourgeoisie habits lost its hold in West Bengal. In Kerala, though CPM is in power lading a Front, it has learnt all the life-styles and mind-sets of bourgeoisie parties. In Telugu language, there is a proverb "Aaru nelalu sahavAsam cEstE aTu vALLu iTu avutAru, iTu vALLu aTu avutAru". Its English gist is, if people make friendships for six months, people on "this side" will become "people on that side", and those on "that side" will become people of this side. By giving Rice @ Rs. 1 per kg., by giving 3 BH houses, laptops, smart phones, numerous freebies, bourgeoisie parties are showing the traits of Leftist Parties, thus displacing the Left Parties from their niche places. Here is a link to a Huffingtonpost.in News Report which says that: "Don't Call The CPM In Kerala Communists, Call Them Social Democrats", Click here to go to http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2016/05/31/cpm-kerala-communists-soc_n_10217714.html . A quote from this report is worth studying:

"...Marxists would certainly detest being called social democrats because ideology is what they wax eloquent about and what gives them cover. Everything they do, whether it’s an alleged political murder or taking advertisements from homegrown crony-capitalists, are ideologically sanitised by their formal and informal network of supporters and proxies. Everything, according to them, is part of their long-term plan of a revolutionary project.

Being a mutualist with the neoliberal marketplace is therefore their unavoidable strategy for the triumph of the working class. But, Marxism is certainly not social democracy.

Marxists would certainly detest being called social democrats because ideology is what they wax eloquent about and what gives them cover.

One of the early trends that the media picked up since the CPM came to power in Kerala is the spate of announcements welcoming big businesses to invest in Kerala, encouraging public-private partnerships, and even kickstarting infrastructure projects that have long been shelved for environmental and feasibility reasons. “Left goes right” said a Times of India headline while the Indian Express said “Pinarayi Vijayan’s new Kerala: Silicon Valley-type hubs. A Malayalam newspaper headline quoted the industries minister saying all monopolies are welcome to the state. ..."

Question: Should we call Indian Communists Democrats?

Ans: Indian Communists, are on par with their bourgeoisie counterparts, as far as LACK OF INTERNAL DEMOCRACY in their parties is concerned. Essential pre-requisite quality for a democrat is, ABILITY AND WILLINGNESS TO TOLERATE EXPRESSION OF DISSENT. Indian Communist Parties have, all the traits needed by tyrannical parties. When dissent is not tolerated, and leaders are imposed from above, though ostensibly through unanimous elections, where the official top-sponsored candidate is never challenged, for fear of being alienated and isolated.

Top Communist Leaders shout from roof tops that their parties will not give any value to caste, religion, and local-non-local origin of individuals. That is theory, not intended for practice. Like bourgeoisie parties, they to have their caste/religion/local-non-local preferences, apart from being the sycophants and cronies of the top-leaders. There is nothing wrong, if a political party tries to stall unwanted unscrupulous persons joining their parties, and getting elected party posts. Unscrupulous persons with their mobs entering parties, hyjacking the party elections, bring out a split, stake claims for ownership of party buildings are rather abominal. All the prestigious concrete party buildings raised with the patronage from Ruling Parties through free land, free / cheap sand, cement , steel etc. when they change hand and go into the management of hyjackers, it may cause lot of agony to the promoters, Central and State Leaders. Such situations are not rare, it happened in 1962 India, when Communists split into CPI and CPIM.

For other bourgeoisie parties, totally hyjacking of party's buildings, cash reserves, and capturing their possession, by physically dominant and violent party-factions-leaders is quite common. For example, in Uttar Pradesh Mulayam Singh Yadav and his associates built the Samajvadi Party's assets (such as buildings, bank accounts etc.). But, a relatively a new entrant Akhilesh Yadav and his MLAs could easily hijack them. Natual justice requires that assets of the party are to be shared by both the factions. But, "majority MLAs" (in case of State Level Parties) or "Majority MPs" (in case of National Level Parties) seem to capture the party assets with the active co-operation of Election Commission and Courts.

It happened in 1969 in Congress. The Assets of the Indian National Congress were built over several decades by many generations of leaders. But their assets were snatched away by Mrs. Indira Gandhi and her faction.

It happened in 1994 in TDP. Late Senior NT Rama Rao founded the Telugu Desam Party from the scratch. But, the party, and its assets were snatched away by the MLAs led by Mr. Chandra Babu Naidu.

What happened in CPIM, Warangal District Unit?

See the following links:
Click here to go https://www.telugu360.com/internal-rivalries-turns-ugly-face-warangal-cpm-rampage-party-office/ and study what happened at CPIM Office of Warangal.

Click to go to HansIndia.com to study what is happening in Warangal CPIM

Here is a very clear video, which shows the situation prvailing in CPIM, Warangal, which may be only a tip of the iceberg, of the degeneration of Communist parties in India. click here to go to youtube.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBS5kyHo_5k to see the video of the breaking of chairs and furniture by party workers. This video belongs to HM TV, linked here their kind courtesy. My sincere gratitude is to them, as they have opened my eyes.

SHRI TAMMINENI VEERABHADRAM, GENERAL SECRETARY OF TELANGANA STATE CPIM

We have to wait and see what Shri Tammineni Veerabhadram, the General Secretary of the Telangana State who is on a strenuous walkathlon (pAdayAtra) is going to do after completion of his onerous task. !!!

"...CPM state leadership is making efforts to resolve differences cropped up between the two groups in Warangal Urban district unit." --- party in-charge state secretary, G Nagaiah.

"...The attack on the party office on Saturday by some persons as sad..."

"...There are several means to redress one’s grievance on party platform but vandalising the office is not proper. ..."

"... Expelled persons can approach the state committee or the central committee seeking reprieve. ..."

"... In CPM, there is no local and non-local candidate, those chosen by the majority will be made district secretary. If the rival group is against the election, it has to pursue the matter patiently by presenting their case before the party leadership. ..."

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

1. On numerous occasions, CPI and CPIM have behaved like local parties taking up local issues. For example, CPI's Secretary Mr. Narayana supported Telangana Movement and spoke like a TRS leader. CPIM Secretary Shri Ramakrishna is very keen on getting Special Category Status to Andhra Pradesh.

Do CPI and CPIM have the system of elections which are conducted using secret ballots? Is that Mr. Vasudeva Reddy who has been imposed as District Secretary of Warangal, elected through secret ballot? Is everybody in the Party permitted freely to contest elections?

Ordinarily, Communist Parties in at least 25 States of India, do not have prospects of coming to power, or becoming the Main Opposition Parties. But all over the country, they have valuable buildings, shops, other assets. (In Telugu langauge, there is an idiom called "Shivalayam = Lord Shiva Temple", as against the opposite "VishNvAlayam = Lord VishNu's Temple". Traditionally, most Shiva Temples were poor. VishNu Temples are rich. Hence, robbers do not venture to burglar in Shiva Temples, where there will only be a phallus, some sacred water, and lot of ash. Communist Parties are like Shiva Temples. Supposed to be poor. In Shiva Temples, this trend is gradually changing. In Communist Party Offices also, things are changing rapidly, with computers, smart phones, glossy furniture, entering the scene.

Like Temples, if Communist Parties acquire and accumulate big buildings, rich paraphernalia, they will become attractions from unscrupulous persons who may enter the party to control the assets. This sort of thing, might have happened at Sundaraiah Bhavan, Warangal also, the CPIM's Office.

Tailpiece
Both BJP and CPIM parties claim they have disciplined workers. Do they really have disciplined workers?

One of the important objectives of this blogger at this blog is, contribute to the best of ability, in the direction of intellectualisation of proletariat (working class) in India. Then only, true total Socialism will germinate and grow in an amicable manner so as to facilitate change of the Economy and the Society, WITHOUT BLOODSHED.

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829 (Part 6/10 total) DEMONETIZATION OF RS. 500 NOTES - SOME QUOTES AND COMMENTS

This is in continuation of post No. 828 (part 5/10). Click to go to 828. I am collecting quotes relating to this demonetization both from net, and from common people in streets. The real problem of 2016 November is; Rs. 500 is not a high denomination currency. It is held by common people everywhere, as ATMs dispense mostly Rs. 500 notes only, and few Rs. 100 notes as a remnant filler. Example: If Rs. 10,000 is drawn, customer will get Rs. 500x19, and Rs. 100x5, total Rs.10,000/-. Thus, Rs. 100s have been relegated to margins, and Rs. 500s are on the main track. Though Rs. 500 may be a stalking denomination, it is also a common-man's note, for day's expenditure.

"...Every petrol pump will accept notes of Rs 1000 & Rs 500 till 11 Nov, I appeal all to kindly coordinate: Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. ..."

Ybrao-a-donkey's experience;

Today I went to a photocopy and DTP Centre. They have A4 size stickers on walls that Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 notes will not be accepted. There I found four employees working. The employees there get salaries of around Rs. 5,000 per month. That is less than Rs. 200 per day. Two Puri-s in tea stalls cost Rs. 28/-. The Employer photocopy-DTP owner came forward to give them Rs. 500/- to buy puris. But the Rs. 500/- note cannot buy them Puri-s. But they can buy petrol!

"... For economy to be robust, it should be cashless. -- Arun Jaitley, Finance Minister."

ybrao-a-donkey's humble view: True, the Economy will become cashless. Rich people will exchange gold, diamonds, silver, art-paintings, antiques, for their transactions of receipts and payments. That was the custom around 300 years back.

Poor people will go back to barter system. They will give a bagful of cotton, and get some rice equal to it in exchange. Salt can become money. Conch Shells can become money. Rudraksha fruits can become money. There is no compulsion for poor people to use banks. Though there will be some initial difficulties in a cashless and bank-less society people have the ingenuity to work out solutions.

"...Thank you. All of us have to work shoulder to shoulder and create a prosperous, inclusive and corruption free India.--- Mr. Narendra Modi in a Twitter Message.

No. Comment. Commenting will be dangerous.

"...Pakistan prints Indian currency more than they print their own. This currency ban by PM Modi will curb terror funding. Only a visionary leader like PM Modi could have done this, this will directly impact terrorism as they work on hawala money. ..Nirmal Singh, J&K deputy chief minister ".

Counterfeit notes from Pakistan is a great menace. Demonetization can to some extent remedy it. But, lot of home work should have been done, to make demonetization SWIFT. It should not become a roller-coaster ride.

Publicise cost of demonetization: Left tells Modi Calling the government decision to demonetize higher denomination notes as a "gimmick", the CPM on Wednesday demanded the cost of withdrawing currency notes to be made public. "This demonetization is attempted as a gimmick to divert attention from serious social and political failures of this government in the past 2.5 years," CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury tweeted. "What is the cost of withdrawing currency notes and replacing them with Rs 2,000 notes? Also, its economic and social costs must be made public," he said, dubbing the move to be another "jumla"."What are the estimates of black money that will be curbed by this move? Government should make the figures public," said the leader of the Communist Party of India-Marxist.

yb-donkey: CPM does not seem to be acting on right track. Criticism should not be for criticism sake. There is nothing wrong with demonetization per se, even cost-benefit-wise. The problem is with lack of planning. Demonetization both for overcoming black-money and counterfeit-currency notes, needs lot of advance preparation. Banks must have sufficient staff, machines to handle contingencies. Proper procedures,forms for submission are to be designed. Haphazard execution will cause great difficulties to poor and aged persons holding Rs. 500 notes, while rich tycoons scape through unhurt, using loopholes, and surrogates. Example 1: Poor old women may hide their small accumulated lifetime savings in 1 or 10 Rs. 500 notes in the roof of their thatched homes. They will get sudden shock of their lives when they come to know, that they are worthless pieces of papers. Example 2: A rich person can send hired persons giving them Rs. 4,000 each to Bank counters, if Rs. 4,000 is ceiling for on-the-counter conversion.

The dividing line between a "jumla (election stunt or gimmick)", and a genuine action is very thin. What appears as genuine action may become a jumla, and what appears to be a jumla may be a genuine act. Hence, it becomes necessary for us to support Mr. Narendra Modi for both of his surgical strikes on Parkistan Borders, and the Demonetization. The problem is with the timing and methodology.

Bollywood lauds PM Modi’s decision to scrap Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes.

yb-donkey: Bollywood might have long back siphoned off their black monies to tax havens.

"... The withdrawal of 500 and 1,000 rupee notes from circulation will not help in fighting black money as it is stashed away in foreign banks, foreign currency, gold or in the form of other assets, a top leader of the All India Bank Employees Association said. "Everyone knows that black money is mostly in foreign currency, in foreign banks, in gold or in properties and less in cash. Hence, this steps alone is not going to help in unearthing black money, ... AIBEA's general secretary CH Venkatachalam. ..."

yb-donkey: I totally agree. Indian Foreign Exchange Receipt-Payments System, Export-Imports System is like a cilli kunda. First those cillis/bokkas (holes) are to be plugged. Even in my dream-fantasy of True-Complete Socialism, where there is NO MONEY AT ALL WHERE EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE FREE, -- preventing STATE MONEY GOING OUT SURREPTITIOUSLY TO HAVENS LIKE SINGAPORE, HONGKONG, HAVENS RUN BY UK GOVERNMENT, HAVENS RUN BY AMERICAN GOVERNMENT, -- is going to be real EXTREMELY SERIOUS problem. It is one of the reasons for the collapse of U.S.S.R. (name for Russia upto 1991). It is happening in China which flaunts itself as a Communist Country, though it was/is never.

"... It is perhaps most significant move ever taken to curtail the parallel economy. ... - Chanda Kochhar, CEO and MD of ICICI bank"

yb-donkey: Though she is the Chair-person of the largest Private Sector Bank in India, in my humble opinion, she does not know much about the true nature of Indian Economy and its problems. She wants to curry-favour with the Government, by praising it.

President of India Verified account ‏@RashtrapatiBhvn
#PresidentMukherjee called upon people not to panic and follow Govt guidelines for exchange of Rs 1000/500 notes President of India, at Twitter.com.

yb-donkey: President of India is also a politician. It will be dangerous to comment on what the President or President says, in the current environment.

"...Other denomination notes of Rs 10, 20, 100 and 1,000 will be printed in the due course of time. --- RBI"

yb-donkey: There may not be any such need. People will design their own methods of "new money" such as barter, and also new methods for "storing value". Earlier gold, silver, precious stones were serving this purpose right from the YudhishThira days when King Marut stored his gold below Himalayas (as per mythology). Today, even 'real-estate' serves as a storage value, They have already staged a come back. Even if they become scarce, new materials/substances/ modes can be found. However, acquiring real estate for 'storage value of money' will become a problem, because of Government's restrictions. Yet, different forms of money- distinct from paper money, can be evolved, have been evolved since long. Here, the adage "Necessity is the mother of invention" will apply.

Between 2011-2016, circulation of all other denominations has grown by 40%. But, circulation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 grew by 76% and 109% respectively: Shaktikanta Das, Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Govt. of India.

yb-donkey: Mr. Shaktikanta Das seems to have forgotten about inflation. What Rs. 100/- was purchasing a decade back, Rs. 500 note is buying now. ONLY the number on the piece of paper has changed.

"...Great move Sir, many Black money holder going to get heart attack today. ..." -- A reader by name Santosh.

yb-donkey: Black-money holders are as intelligent as Mr. Narendra Modi, if not more, some of them, intelligent than him. Temporarily they may lose some piece/peace of mind, because they have not anticipated the risk, and actively converted their TOTAL money into some other medium. Intelligent Black-money holders might have already sufficiently hedged themselves. It is not possible to get 100% protection anywhere, through any method. For that reason alone, there is a proverb: "Do not keep all your eggs in one basket". And they might have already kept their eggs in different baskets, except innocent persons who are not intelligent enough to hedge themselves. Even if they lose one basket of eggs, they only lose partially, for which there is no need to get heart-attack. Only foolish black-money holders keep all their money in Rs.500-1000 currency bundles. Supporters of Mr. Narendra Modi appear to be hasty in drawing conclusions, just as Mr. Modi is an expert in making tall promises, and creating jumlas, making mountains out of mole-hills.

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781 We should appreciate the courage of Ms. Jagmati Sanwar in resisting CPM Central Committee

This is in continuation of our blogpost No. 758 dated 21st May 2016, wherein we have discussed some of the problems ailing the CPIM (Communist Party of India, Marxist). The title of the blogpost is: 758 CPIM is continuing the same disastrous and undemocratic practices of Congress and BJP ! Lacks internal democracy. For those who wish to study this blogpost: Click to go to 758 . Now, at least one courageous person in the CPIM Central Committee, Ms. Jagmati Sanwar, General Secretary of AIDWA has come out openly against the manner in which the CPIM Central Committee was violating its own Party-line of not having any truck with Congress, by forging alliances with Congress, in West Bengal. The debacle of CPM in the 2016 Bengal Assembly Elections, has sufficiently proved that unhealthy alliances with borgeoisie parties in the name of preventing /displacing some other bourgeoisie party do not pay. It appears that the Central Committee Members from Bengal have opposed the use of the word "violating" party-line in the Resolution of postmortem of losing the Elections in Bengal, and threatened to resign.

Here is a newsreport dated the 25th June 2016 from ndtv.com, which summarises what seems to have happened in CPIM Central Committee Meeting, and the circumstances which seem to have led to resignation of Ms. Jagmati from the Central Committee (according to her: resignation) and expulsion of Ms. Jagmati from the Central Committee (according to Party: expulsion for gross indiscipline).

Here is an Indian Express Report which informs what seems to have happened at the said Central Committee Meeting. Click to look at IndianExpress

Considering my resignation was in my opinion a step to strengthen the party, there is no question now of trying to weaken the party or any mass organisation. My decision was an entirely political decision and to interpret it as some kind of personal rivalry is absolutely wrong

This meeting started on June 18. And on the 18th the note presented by the politburo… it had this term that it was a violation of the political tactical line by the Bengal committee. And a huge majority said it was a violation... ... But today, when it concluded on the basis of the discussion… they said we will be deleting this violation word because Bengal secretary Surjya Kanta Misra and senior leaders like Bimanda [Bose] said we (they) will resign if you (cpm) keep this term. Even the general secretary [Sitaram Yechury] was against it. I said no, it is not acceptable, at least to me. I said I resign from the central committee and party membership and I walked out,

"...Considering my resignation was in my opinion a step to strengthen the party, there is no question now of trying to weaken the party or any mass organisation. My decision was an entirely political decision and to interpret it as some kind of personal rivalry is absolutely wrong . ..."

"... This meeting started on June 18. And on the 18th the note presented by the politburo… it had this term that it was a violation of the political tactical line by the Bengal committee. And a huge majority said it was a violation... ... But today, when it concluded on the basis of the discussion… they said we will be deleting this violation word because Bengal secretary Surjya Kanta Misra and senior leaders like Bimanda [Bose] said we (they) will resign if you (cpm) keep this term. Even the general secretary [Sitaram Yechury] was against it. I said no, it is not acceptable, at least to me. I said I resign from the central committee and party membership and I walked out. ..."

ybrao-a-donkey's humble comments. वैबीराव एक गधे के विनम्र राय . వైబీరావ్ గాడిద వినమ్ర వాణి. You have every right to differ with me. I respect your right. आपको मेरे मत से भिन्न राय रखने के संपूर्ण हक है। मै उस अधिकार को परिपूर्ण रूप से गौरव देता हुँ. మీకు, మీ భిన్నమైన అభిప్రాయాన్ని కలిగిఉండే సంపూర్ణ హక్కు ఉంది. దానిని ఎంతో నేను గౌరవిస్తాను. However, pl. examine this donkey's views also. परन्तु एस गधे के दृष्टिकोण को भी अनुशीलन कीजिये. కానీ ఈ గాడిద దృష్టికోణాన్ని కూడ ఓర చూపుతో కంటజూడుమీ, క్రీగంట జూడమీ.

Ms. Jagmati Sangwan has taken a courageous decision.

She need not worry about weakening Communist or Socialist Movements in India.

She can try to promote a new Communist / Socialist / Democratic Socialist Party in India, which should include not only women, but also men.

Just as there are large number of bourgeoisie political parties in India, we can have large number of Communist / Socialist / Democratic Socialist Parties. I do not support the idea of unification of Communist Parties or having only one or two Communist Parties. Such step will only lead to monopolies and oligopolies in socialist arena.

In fact, totalitarianism is the bane of Communism, worldwide. At least in India, let us make a beginning of working against and dispelling the general impression of Communism / Socialism / Marxism involves dictatorships and totalitarianism.

CPIM seems to be suffering from loss of geographical spread. It sems to be excessively depending on its West Bengal and Kerala Units. For the time being it may be strong in West Bengal and Kerala. But CPIM Central Leadership should not forget that theirs is an All India Party, with defined set of principles. Opportunism and Regionalism cannot have places and prominence in the principles and party-lines. At any cost, inner party democracy cannot be sacrificed, in the name of gross indiscipline. One tool for deriving benefits from inner party democracy is through use of secret ballots at every level, where everything will be put to test through secret ballots, with a clear understanding that loss of something in ballot is not an end in itself, and after sometime, another attempt can be made.

PROBLEMS OF RELIANCE ON ONE OR TWO STATES

Mr. Jayaprakash Narayan, a Retd. I.A.S. Officer had started a Party by name Lok Satta. As JPN is from erstwhile United Andhra Pradesh, it had a good base in defunct United A.P.

Later, he wanted to convert Lok Satta into an All India Party, with Office at Delhi. Mr. JPN seems to have had some dreams of developing his party on the lines of A.A.P.

A.A.P (Aam Admi Party) too have dreams of emerging as an All India Party. But its base is only in Delhi and Punjab.

Already there are divisions and splits in A.A.P., culminating in expulsion of Yogendra Yadav, Prashanti Bhushan et al. Now, AAP (Kejriwal) is still continuing with its dreams. If Mr. Kejriwal inserts more South Indian leaders into AAP Central Committee, there is always a danger of revolt from Delhi and Punjab leaders, whose sweat the successes of AAP in Delhi and Punjab, which Mr. Kejriwal enjoys.

Back to Lok Satta, one gets an impression that Shri JPN wanted to give a greater role to his Delhi Associates, which seems to have been resisted by the A.P. Lok Satta Leaders. It appears that Mr. JPN wanted to have his say as founder of the party. Somehow, things did not workout, and the party seems to have been shelved or inactive.

ONE SOLUTION

It will be better if parties in India are organised NOT ON THE BASIS OF GEOGRAPHICAL UNITS, but ON THE BASIS OF DIFFERENT CLASSES OF PROLETARIAT such as farm workers, fishermen, rural artisans, metal workers, shop clerks, street vendors, construction workers, etc. etc. The different classes can be made of equal representation, size, by expert studies of various occupations and profession in India.

At grassroot level, units need not be organised in the traditional mode of village units, ward level units, or polling booth level units. Parties can take every group of 10 members of the same occupation/profession as one grassroot unit, and its leader can be called "daSamukh". A leader of ten such groups can be called "Satamukh". Ten Satamukhs can make a Sahasramukh. Thus leaderships and structures have to rise from bottom to the top, through a system of secret ballots.

NOT EASY TO START AND RUN NEW POLITICAL PARTIES IN INDIA

It is not easy to start and run new political parties in India, both bourgeoisie and Socialist. While the bourgeoisie parties may do anything they like because they need not worry about ethics, Socialist Parties have to explore ways and means of organising parties without COSTS. CPIM has recently organised a motorcycle rally in Vijayawada. Who will pay the cost of petrol? Party workers participating in such rallies will lose one day wages, they have to bear the cost of petrol, they have to neglect their families. For its Meeting at Vijayawada, CPIM might have collected funds from somebody or other without verifying their source of income. For example, there is an allegation against CPI that it collected donations from Liquor Contractors in Khammam District for organising its Meeting there.

Workers and Proletarian Parties have greater ethical responsibilities when compared to Mainline parties.

To continue. सशेष. ఇంకా ఉంది.