There are ideologues like Ashok Mitras and Prakash Karats and there are who like to enjoy the thrones of power by compromising on principles and ideals of what the party stands for!
That is why when Prakash Karat led the internal revoulution to stop Jyoti Basu from becoming the PM, the grand old man of CPM grudgingly stated after a few years that the step is a HISTORIC BLUNDER!
Prakash Karat was right in stopping Jyoti Babu from becoming the PM. But alas! Prakash was later getting isolated by those PRAGMATISTS. He could not stop Jyoti Basus chela Buddhadeb from doing Singur and Nandigram!
But for Singur and Nandigram which are as much a blot on CPMs history as much as Gujarat is on Hindutva ideologue's RSS.
Had it not been Nandigram & Singur, the Left Front would have got more than 65 seats which they got in the last election. This election should have given them more seats particularly in view of the capitalist class's failure in the current global meltdown. It could easily been a Third Front Govt led by CPM. Alas! Buddhadeb and his cronies ruined those chances and also had egg on their faces by Mamata.
Ironically, it is Mamata who is standing up for those for whom normally the Leftists should have!
Come out of retirement Dada Mitra!
The nation needs people like you now more than ever!
All those who lick the feet of the US and its agents in the electronic media might demonise Public Sector but not utter a word on 7200 Cr single scam of private sector!
...and talks of "flourishing public sector", with all the benefit of hindsight! Has he learnt nothing from the disastrous Nehru years? Or is it that bigoted Leftists are simply incorrigible?
Re: Legendary thinker...
by Anil Suri on May 14, 2009 11:51 PM
I'd sooner buy the Pope's views about condoms/HIV than a leftist's dogma about a "flourishing public sector"/economic backwardness.
Re: Re: Legendary thinker...
by Lokeshwari Sathish on May 15, 2009 12:21 AM
dim wit, 7200 cr was not forcefully taken from common man as taxes. the money belongs to investors, some unwittingly invested some out of greed invested. anyway given day it is better then feeding 100s of thousands of fit for nothing cpi cadres masquerading as govn employees who are getting paid without doing work. if communism is so great USSR would be the only super power. hope next you read some newspapers
Re: Re: Legendary thinker...
by Indian on May 15, 2009 02:39 AM
please forgive this leftist..he does not know what he said...and so does many other leftists
Re: Re: Legendary thinker...
by Anil Suri on May 15, 2009 01:10 AM
Talking of siphoning money, have you heard of the Mundra Scam, and what the Chagla Commission had to say about the Finance Ministry of the time?
Just don't get it! Congress is a basket case and BJP was a big failure. CPM is total failure in WB and Kerala too. We need decentralization not centralization as this guy talks about.
Why can't we seriously sit down and discuss political and administrative reforms? Dr.Mitra craps out Marxist theories which failed every where in the world. If China stuck to Maoism, they would have all died by now.
We have to see what worked in our democracy, what did not and try alternatives.
We need
* TERM LIMITS * Primaries - ELECT CANDIDATES BY PEOPLE SELECTING them rather than PARTIES NOMINATING candidates foe elections * REFERENDUM on critical issues * RECALL if some one messes up badly * JUDGES, POLICE, PROSECUTORS all should be elected not nominated by CMs.
Re: Decentralization is key
by Manojit Sarkar on May 15, 2009 01:40 AM
And your theory costs more to the public via taxes!! Why are we still in denial? The whole concept of India is failing because of these regional parties and multi-party system. Why can't we stop this and move to a two-three-max 4 party system? If you really look at the exit poll and if it is somewhat of a guidance, we will find that with Cong BJP, it is more than 70% of the seats. Which is a clear indicator of stopping the regional parties to contest the central elections by themselves. A probable solution could be all the regional parties with presence less than 10 states, need to clearly declare which central party they are going to support and needs to step off the LS Electoral choices. On commies - I believe this is the party that has more clean and dedicated politicians, whatever their ideas are, than any other party existing in current India.
Just don't get it! Congress is a basket case and BJP was a big failure. CPM is total failure in WB and Kerala too. We need decentralization not centralization as this guy talks about.
Why can't we seriously sit down and discuss political and administrative reforms? Dr.Mitra craps out Marxist theories which failed every where in the world. If China stuck to Maoism, they would have all died by now.
We have to see what worked in our democracy, what did not and try alternatives.
We need
* TERM LIMITS * Primaries - ELECT CANDIDATES BY PEOPLE SELECTING them rather than PARTIES NOMINATING candidates foe elections * REFERENDUM on critical issues * RECALL if some one messes up badly * JUDGES, POLICE, PROSECUTORS all should be elected not nominated by CMs.
Re: Decentralization is key
by KRAM KRAM on May 15, 2009 01:36 AM
You have made some decent points.Its just that the political class does not want these changes to happen.
"Delhi [Images] was hostage to them for more than four years, they could have forced the government to allocate Rs 40-50,000 crores (Rs 400 billion to Rs 500 billion) to them."
That means the hard earned taxpayers money from all over the country( and corporate tax from maharastra, gujrat and other states ) has to be given to state ruled by communist with "Bandh" and "lochout" politics. A toatl drain of precious national resources. Simply it would have been shear example of stealing.Why don't communist formulate new policies to earn more money( like other states are doing) and then spend it on whatever they wanted. WB is rich in minerals, human resource, is strategically placed closer to fast developing south east asia via sea, has fertile land,water resources, top institute like IIT and IIm's. It is shame that with so much advantage ,WB is has lagged in every aspect of development and has to look at centre for everything. And every one knows the reason why .
He agrees that there are 30,000 firms closed in the state alone (during communist rule).
Is it a material for credibility or what?
These Bengalis are basically self centered bugs who have hijacked all the public sector investment from the rest of the neighboring states, mostly from the state of Orissa.
" That is what the US presidential system. That is the best.
British system suks. Who the hell is this British queen and their a(s)s-hole prince and princess. "
On top of that we can make even the Presidential system better by having all the basis of election i.e debates, airing view, etc. be funded by government to take away mafia money and control.
Look at the friendly tone of the interveiwer. Had it been a BJP government in Calcutta and Nandigram happened ...just imagine the scenario. How media would have called BJP...and what kind of questions would be asked.
