IN FACT, IT BELONGS ON THE ASH HEAP:

End Red subversion of democracy (Ravi Shanker Kapoor, 1/22/06, Organiser)

The chasm between the pretense and the practice of Indian communists is so conspicuous that even the dumb could perceive it. Yet, the adherents of the most violent ideology masquerade as peace-niks; the worshippers of mass-murderers like Stalin and Mao sermonize on social harmony; and, quite blatantly, the enemies of democracy pose as the champions of democracy. Worse still, even though the truth about communists is well-known, few in India have the courage to take them to task.

That communists have been undermining democracy in West Bengal is a well-established fact: political leaders from non-Left parties such as the Congress, the Trinmool Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have said it so many times; journalists, political observers, even bureaucrats have talked about the electoral misdemeanours in West Bengal; yet the Red subversion of democracy continues unabated. A report in The Indian Express on December 18, “What they didn’t want you to see: EC on how Left ‘rigs’ Bengal polls,” once again described how the communists have been subverting democracy in West Bengal. [...]

What is the way out? As Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy wrote in a recent article: “The moment of truth, therefore, has arrived. The land of Bankim Chatterjee, Vivekananda, Aurobindo, Subhash Bose, and a galaxy of leaders which no other state can boast of, not to forget the indomitable spirit of Syama Prasad Mookerjee, cannot remain enslaved to an ideology in deep rigour morties. The people must search out an instrument, give it full support, and liberate the state in the next election. Communism belongs to the museum, like the fossils of dinosaurs, and not in Writers Building.” Bengalis can, and should, learn from Biharis and end another Evil Empire.