The Red Menace

abhishek_sharma · Post by **abhishek_sharma** » 30 May 2012 07:57

UNFULFILLED PROMISES

As UPA 2 celebrated completion of its third year in office, the Left argued that there is little for the Indian people to celebrate, given that the government imposed more burdens on the people while major promises made by it remained unfulfilled. An editorial in the CPM weekly People’s Democracy points out that the women’s reservation, food security, land acquisition and Lokpal bills remain unimplemented. But the government’s claims regarding the economy remain far away from the declared target, it says.

“The government started this year by claiming that our economy would register a GDP growth rate of 9 per cent. We ended with a growth rate of 6.9 per cent. Industrial growth rate this year ended at a meagre 2.8 per cent as compared to 8.2 per cent last year. In the ‘report card’ issued at this third anniversary celebrations, it is claimed that there is record coal production. What is not said is that the gap between the demand and supply of coal widened to a record level as well; that too despite our immense coal reserves,” it says.

A YEAR OF MAMATA

The CPI weekly New Age wrote about West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s first year in office. It contends that her poor record as CM is “evident” from her walking out of an interview with a TV channel. “Mamata Banerjee, in place of facing the questions, blamed the audience of being agents of (the) opposition... and walked out from the stage. This has been her attitude all through the year. Anything that goes wrong, she blames the Left for it. Net result is that now her supporters too have started believing that Didi may be a good street agitator but has no quality of administration,” it says.

It concludes that her year in office has forced people to reconsider supporting her and cites Mahasweta Devi’s resignation from the chairmanship of the Bangla Academy as proof. “More intellectuals are expressing their anger (at) her authoritarian ways of functioning,” it says.

MINING BILL

In an article, senior CPM leader Brinda Karat criticises the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Bill 2011, saying that it was designed to promote the interests of private mining companies, not deprived communities. She argues that the Centre and most state governments have, over the years, promoted privatisation by leasing mines to private companies, apart from handing over captive mines of iron ore and bauxite to steel and aluminium corporations.

The MMRD Bill, she says, is to push the deregulation and liberalisation of the mining sector and encourage privatisation. Many of the provisions are designed to attract private investment. “It introduces the concept of high technology reconnaissance, prospecting and exploration licenses, and easy terms of conversion to mining leases to encourage the entry of FDI and foreign companies. It also gives weightage, in the allocation of leases, to criteria that favour such companies and also allows them activity on much larger tracts of land than previously.”

She refers to a provision that makes it mandatory for coal mining companies to give an amount equal to 26 per cent of their profits to the District Mineral Foundation for the welfare of the project-affected people. “Interestingly, the US, which had set up somewhat similar trusts to manage funds paid by companies using the land on reserves owned by Native Indians has recently had to pay compensation of $1.2 billion to 41 Native American communities for ‘mismanagement of the assets’ of the trust... When the affected people do not have a decisive say in the management of such funds... this ‘mismanagement’ is inevitable,” she says.

Kati · Post by **Kati** » 01 Jun 2012 01:33

Now you know why suddenly goras are venturing into maovadi dominated areas....

http://theredflag.ca/node/17

http://maoistroad.blogspot.com/2012/05/ ... india.html

Kati · Post by **Kati** » 01 Jun 2012 01:35

http://bermudaradical.wordpress.com/201 ... dakaranya/

Suppiah · Post by **Suppiah** » 02 Jun 2012 10:27

Our comrade Mani that admitted to serial murders by his party on a routine basis (and also promised more to come) appears to have also made some juicy remarks against our intellectual Maoist Maha (moo) devi...that too a sexist one...any Keralite has the translation of that?

It would be good to keep that in the archive and throw back whenever Stalinist rapist goon savages and their fake intellectual as well as yellow media agents pretend to be 'progressive, pro-women and modern'. It is only the 'others' that are fascist, talibanists. Of course, taliban itself is merely 'conservative' provided they dance to Beijings' and its butt-hole licking all weather friend's tunes.

brihaspati · Post by **brihaspati** » 02 Jun 2012 20:44

Suppiah wrote:Our comrade Mani that admitted to serial murders by his party on a routine basis (and also promised more to come) appears to have also made some juicy remarks against our intellectual Maoist Maha (moo) devi...that too a sexist one...any Keralite has the translation of that?

It would be good to keep that in the archive and throw back whenever Stalinist rapist goon savages and their fake intellectual as well as yellow media agents pretend to be 'progressive, pro-women and modern'. It is only the 'others' that are fascist, talibanists. Of course, taliban itself is merely 'conservative' provided they dance to Beijings' and its butt-hole licking all weather friend's tunes.

You dont know how juicy the comrade's comments can become under the effects of alcohol. Apart from my patrilineal stricture against cohol for many centuries, my early experience of seeing how cohol brought out the drastic fall in humanity in leftist intellectuals/humanists under intoxication have somewhat turned me against cohol in general.

It is accepted in communist circles that comrades will have "bad" tongues, and will crack indecent jokes as a kind of release - in private or within close circles. They are supposed to be liberated from the evils of a bourgeois cultural pretension, and have revolutionary audacity.

abhishek_sharma · Post by **abhishek_sharma** » 03 Jun 2012 05:22

Blood on the sickle

abhishek_sharma · Post by **abhishek_sharma** » 06 Jun 2012 06:37

The men from Manipur who train and arm Maoists

Views from the Left

PRICE HIKE

CPM weekly People’s Democracy focuses on the recent petrol price hike. In an article titled Myth and Reality of Oil Price Hike, Nilotpal Basu quotes 2010-11 figures to argue that the three oil PSUs are making profits. Basu writes: “IOC, BPCL and HPCL have had a net profit after tax during 2010-11 of Rs 7445.48 crore, Rs 1742.06 crore and Rs 1539.01 crore (respectively). And all these figures show an increase over earlier years. That the trend continues in the same vein is revealed by the audited figures of the fourth quarter of 2011-12”.

Basu also says that the “under recovery” is notional and is the difference between the retail price of a petroleum product and its trade-parity price. “The trade-parity price (is based) on many unincurred costs because oil companies do not import petrol or diesel and what they sell in (the) domestic market are fuels produced in their own refineries... But to pursue the pernicious agenda of global finance, the top brass of the Indian economic policy establishment is trying to dress up ‘under recoveries’ as virtual losses, and claiming to be subsidising them from the consolidated fund of India,” he says.

He contends that the subsidy “is arrived at by loading the cost price with several tax(es) and duties and then reducing by the subsidy amount and eventually selling at a profit. He concludes that the exchequer’s contribution to the petroleum sector is constantly growing and favours restructuring of taxes to provide relief to the people.

WATER POLICY

Another article discusses the Draft National Water Policy released by the government earlier this year. According to the article, the draft does not recognise the depth of the water crisis facing the country, which it claims will only be exacerbated by climate change.

The article says that the document evades the “significant and frightening reality” that per capita availability of water in India has reduced to about 33 per cent of the level available at Independence. It argues that the draft policy is torn between “viewing water as a public good, with water-related services therefore being a public service, and regarding water as an economic good whose supply and regulation are to be governed largely through fiscal measures.”

“(The) draft policy leans toward the latter approach while paying lip service to the former as a desirable principle but unable to work out how and where to draw the line,” it concludes.

FOOD ENTITLEMENT BILL

IN AN article in the CPI weekly New Age, Annie Raja criticises the Food Security Bill. She says that the legislation does not deal with production, procurement, storage and distribution, and hence cannot be called the food security bill. “The bill only deals with a certain quantity of rice, wheat and other grains for a certain amount of money. It is silent on nutritional security too. For these reasons the present bill can only be called a food entitlement bill,” she argues.

Raja claims that the bill offers food security to those targeted for welfare schemes, which makes it discriminatory. “Past experience shows that targeting caused exclusion... The lack of reliability of targeting based on (the) BPL list is evident from at least three national household surveys... all showing that about half of the all poor households in rural areas do not have a BPL ration card,” she says. She argues against the incorporation of the term “ready to eat meal” in the bill and objects to provisions for cash transfers and food coupons, claiming that such moves would be detrimental to agriculture.

Sachin · Post by **Sachin** » 06 Jun 2012 10:51

I guess the brouhaha over the T.P Chandrasekharan murder is now slowly going down. The bye-elections at Neyyatinkara are already over, and guess the INC does not wish to "milk" this issue any further.

Cases slapped against CPM, DYFI activists
This relates to an incident in which the commies blocked the police from entering a CPI(M) Area Commitee office. The police had gone there with an accused to gather more evidence. The title of the report with words like "slapping" does not mean any thing. Such cases never gets prosecuted and no commie leader has come to any hard ship because of this. In fact the number of such cases only increases their weightage in the mafia pecking order.

The accuses was how ever soon taken to Mysore for evidence collection as he was picked up from there. It is this accused (Sijith) who had tattooed the commie party symbol on his forearm.

Mani files plea to dismiss cases against him
M.M Mani, the comrade who boasted about CPI(M) maintaining a hit-list and about three murder cases have now approached the courts for anticipatory bails. The police even though have started investigation have said that arrest is not imminent. MM Mani did not even bother to respond to the notice (sent as per provisions in Cr.PC) asking him to report at the police station for questioning.

CPM dealing with TP case physically: Chandy
A grand round of whining by the current Kerala Govt.

Further read..
CPI(M) being hunted publicly : Pinarayi Vijayan
CPI(M) alleges police torture in custody
Police grapling with Chandrasekhran murder case

Sachin · Post by **Sachin** » 08 Jun 2012 09:08

x-posted from Police Investigation thread..

In the T.P Chandrasekharan murder case at Kerala, the police have picked up the main brain behind the murder plan. T.K Rajeesh was arrested from a village near Goa-Maharashtra state border.

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Prime accused in Chandrasekharan murder case held
From the report...

By now, the total number of people taken into custody in the case has touched 23, which includes nine activists of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M).

The police said it was Rajeesh who planned the murder using a gang of seven hired killers. With his arrest, the police also expect to crack a few other murder cases.

A police official said Rajeesh, after Chandrasekharan's murder, left for Mumbai, where three Keralites provided him shelter. The police have arrested them.

Meanwhile, Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said no time frame could set to solve the case.

'This is because in the past it was the party (CPI-M) which handed over the accused whenever a political crime took place. But this time, it is going to be different and the real conspirators of the crime will be rounded up,' Chandy told reporters in Kannur.

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 08 Jun 2012 15:13

Sachin wrote:x-posted from Police Investigation thread..

In the T.P Chandrasekharan murder case at Kerala, the police have picked up the main brain behind the murder plan. T.K Rajeesh was arrested from a village near Goa-Maharashtra state border. .
Prime accused in Chandrasekharan murder case held
From the report...
By now, the total number of people taken into custody in the case has touched 23, which includes nine activists of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M).

The police said it was Rajeesh who planned the murder using a gang of seven hired killers. With his arrest, the police also expect to crack a few other murder cases.

A police official said Rajeesh, after Chandrasekharan's murder, left for Mumbai, where three Keralites provided him shelter. The police have arrested them.

Meanwhile, Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said no time frame could set to solve the case.

'This is because in the past it was the party (CPI-M) which handed over the accused whenever a political crime took place. But this time, it is going to be different and the real conspirators of the crime will be rounded up,' Chandy told reporters in Kannur.

That is a real sad commentary on the law and justice system

Sachin · Post by **Sachin** » 08 Jun 2012 20:40

Aditya_V wrote:That is a real sad commentary on the law and justice system

Yes indeed. K.P folks who could pick up normal murderers rapists etc. always landed in trouble when a comrade was to be arrested. CPI(M) regularly commits such murders and when the police starts an investigation, they line up a series of junior comrades who say they did the crime. At the time of the trial the evidences would be too shallow and the case would get thrown out. Even other wise if these fellows gets sentenced the party arranges for funds so that the families would lead a decent life. There is a convention that prisoners who lead a peaceful life in the jail gets their sentences commuted. The names of these folks appear in that list after 6-8 years and they soon come out.

To be quite honest, this is the first case in which I am seeing K.P folks going behind the master minds behind the crime. And the commie leadership of Kannur is worried. And that worry is causing them to make irresponsible statements one after other. The leaders now exhort the comrades to think about how they fought against the British police. One leader advised that every house hold should stock up enough water mixed with chill powder to deal with police men who may raid their homes

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Suppiah · Post by **Suppiah** » 09 Jun 2012 09:54

There is nothing for the commies to worry about. A whole battalion of fake liberal yellow journalists, rapist goon propaganda puppet intellectuals and JNU jhola-wallas ready to rescue them. Already the yellow daily is trying to divert attention by focussing on BJPs leadership 'crisis'. They dynasty gives a s..t for a few of party workers getting killed as such cannon fodder are easy to recruit. Moreover one is never sure when the mass murderer's help is going to be required again..to get the clown prince into seats of power.

Before you can say thiruvananthapuram, you will have Mani addressing 'progressive intellectual writers association' or other such talk shops or even address JNU student's union welcomed with Laal salaam..

Supratik · Post by **Supratik** » 09 Jun 2012 15:02

From the Bengal experience INC will do nothing much about targeted killings (we had the Harmads doing the same in WB). This is because if you are going to felicitate Marxists of various hues in Delhi for various reasons and taking their coalition support from time to time then you are already compromised. This is one of the major reasons why Mamata broke away from the INC.

RamaY · Post by **RamaY** » 12 Jun 2012 21:32

Gandhi Award for Binayak Sen

The latest in his foreign honours is the Gandhi Foundation Peace Award he receives today at the House of Lords in London along with Bulu Imam.

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Obviously, Dr. Sen got his passport since he’s receiving his award in London. The government might claim that the flurry of international awards (Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights, the Heinz R. Pagels Award, the Gwangju Prize for Human Rights), the campaign for Dr Sen which included 44 Nobel laureates, has had no impact on it. If the man is guilty, it maintains, a western award does not make him less guilty.

In 2008, when Dr. Sen got the Jonathan Mann award, the first time a South Asian received that award, there was a huge clamour of voices demanding he be allowed to go to Washington D.C. to accept it. The government refused to back down. Dr Ilina Sen, his wife, accepted it on his behalf saying simply that “in other circumstances” he would have been there. Instead of using the occasion to really give a black eye to the government she spoke of the larger issue at hand, none of which was particularly new or incendiary

Who is who of Gandhi Foundation

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 12 Jun 2012 21:52

Let me guess Ghandhi Foundation in LONDON

and Given to a man who supports the murders of Maoists.

Now I have seen it all. Britain was the champion for Indian Independence and it only those Kaffir Pagan idol worshipping Hindoos who didn't want independence and voluntarily enslaved themselves as British subjects to enjoy the wondeful famines under colonialism.

Wow these Maoists seem to have a lot of support in Western Europe?

RamaY · Post by **RamaY** » 12 Jun 2012 22:49

^ That is one aspect.

The second aspect is how the out-of-India NGOs and govts are using Indians to do their bidding, is a lesson on how India got colonized before.

This is what Bji called Mercantilist mentality.

abhishek_sharma · Post by **abhishek_sharma** » 13 Jun 2012 06:59

Views from the Left

LOOK WITHIN

In the CPI’s New Age, senior leader Atul Kumar Anjaan’s article questions the Maoists. He says, till recently, Naxalism was considered part of an ideological debate despite its violent ways but is now shrouded in controversy.

Arguing against their violence, he asks: “when our Constitution provides peaceful methods of struggle to improve the government policies, why it becomes imperative to destroy village schools and hospitals”, and wonders whether “such steps help weaken the so-called ‘atrocious’ rule of the administration”. “Is it possible to finish the government army or reduce considerably the number of rifles if some CRPF jawans are killed or (some) AK-47 are snatched and handed over to their own so-called efficient army? Are we meeting our revolutionary responsibilities by staying away from the common masses and living in the jungles of the bihad among a few thousands of people,” asks the article.

Pointing out that the attacked jawans are often the sons of poor toilers, he urges the Maoists to introspect. “Even if it is accepted that there are lots of expectations from the Maoists, yet the question remains that if the government officials are trying in their own limited, lacklustre way to improve the plight of the deprived, why that process has to be interrupted by kidnapping them? Does it not destroy the very purpose for which the Maoists themselves have opted to face the hardships of a jungle life,” the article questions.

Arguing that the goal of a revolution can be achieved only if a majority of the population supports it, he argues that “the Maoists... would have to realise that to fight the state’s oppressive measures in a democracy, dialogue has always been a logical weapon through which the masses are organised.”

SICK ECONOMY

THE editorial in the CPM’s People’s Democracy criticises the “pundits of neo-liberalism” who push the government towards greater liberalisation of India’s financial sector to reverse the current slowdown in the economy.

It says the government has already showed signs of accepting such suggestions. It cites the revival of a cabinet note to privatise pension funds and the announcement of a supplementary foreign trade policy which has sops estimated at over Rs 1,200 crore to promote India’s tumbling exports. CPM leader Sitaram Yechury recalls the Left had opposed the privatisation of pensions funds during UPA 1. “...Such an opposition turned out prophetic in the wake of the 2008 global financial meltdown. Crores of Indian employees would have been ruined if this bill was passed in Parliament...” The economy, he says can be revived only by enlarging our domestic demand.

“This is currently being severely squeezed due to the relentless price rise and sharply widening economic inequalities. This can be reversed only by banning all speculative trading in essential commodities and, importantly, generating largescale employment through significant public investments in building our infrastructure. There is no dearth of resources for this, if only the massive tax concessions... are stopped,” the editorial argues.

BIHAR’S SENA

IN THE aftermath of the killing of Ranvir Sena chief Brahmeshwar Singh, the lead editorial in the CPM (ML)’s ML Update says the question is whether his murder will revive the Sena — a private upper-caste army which ran a ruthless campaign of terror against alleged Maoist supporters for nearly two decades in Bihar.

The article is heavily critical of the Sena and Singh. It says his supporters and even sections of the media tried to “project him as a hero or saviour of the peasantry”, but the informed democratic opinion in Bihar treated him as one of the most hated symbols of decaying feudal domination. “The exit of Brahmeshwar Singh... by no means should be construed as an automatic weakening of (the) feudal forces in Bihar... Feudal forces still weigh quite heavily on the legislative, judicial and bureaucratic balance in Bihar as can be inferred from signs like the disbanding of the Amir Das Commission, the abandoning of the Report of the Land Reforms Commission and the most recent acquittal of the perpetrators of the Bathani Tola massacre...” it argues.

Compiled by Manoj C.G.

abhishek_sharma · Post by **abhishek_sharma** » 20 Jun 2012 07:14

Views from the Left

LEADERSHIP TUSSLE

The latest issue of CPM weekly People’s Democracy criticises the BJP for the tussle in that party over its prime ministerial candidate for 2014. “The general elections are two years away. The BJP has neither won the election nor is it likely to muster a majority in the Lok Sabha, yet the dreams of becoming the PM seem to be growing in numbers,” the editorial says.

“The veteran old warhorse, (L.K.) Advani, continues to obdurately adhere to his attitude of never ‘giving up’. The BJP president has shed substantial physical weight hoping to gain some political weight and be eligible. The leaders of the opposition in both the Houses have also joined the race. The former presidents of the BJP, currently in the parliament, have also not given up their hopes,” it elaborates.

The editorial contends that Narendra Modi’s jabs at Nitish Kumar shows that Modi sees him as a potential threat to his prime ministerial chances in the event of the NDA coming to power. It argues that while the BJP’s allies may be keen to share power and the spoils of office, they cannot, for their own political reasons, go along with the Sangh Parivar’s programme of intensifying communal polarisation.

“It is this contradiction that the RSS/BJP continues to remain incapable of resolving satisfactorily... The Indian people’s commitment and steadfastness in defending our secular-democratic republic may, once again, be put to test,” it concludes.

Indo-US DIALOGUE

An editorial in CPI weekly New Age talks about the just-concluded Indo-US strategic dialogue in Washington. It says the outcome of the dialogue was clear from the outset, after the opening remarks made by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Clinton was out to “(pressure) the Indian side to concede all the economic and political demands for which (the) agenda was set when she was in New Delhi a few weeks back,” it says. The article claims the US is looking forward to expediting negotiations on the bilateral investment treaty and wants India further reduce barriers to trade and investment in areas like multi-brand retail.

“This is the economic agenda on which the American administration, irrespective of the party affiliations of the White House incumbents, had been (pressuring) India. Even after getting the Indo-US nuclear deal through dubious means, Americans had been demanding that the country waives all liabilities of supplier in case of nuclear disaster through amendments in its laws... Of late, the government... has conceded this demand to a great extent. Similarly, Americans want total liberalisation of Indian economy,” it argues.

“Despite the bravado of the UPA 2 government in taking an independent position vis-a-vis the US and Iran... It is gradually conceding all American demands regarding Iran,” it concludes.

CUSTODIAL MURDER

The CPI(ML)’s weekly ML Update discusses the murder of terror suspect Mohammad Qateel Siddiqui in a high-security Pune prison. It says the custodial murder raises serious questions about the role of jail authorities and alleges that it could not have taken place without their knowledge.

“The investigative agencies too are under a cloud. Their failure to file a chargesheet indicates that sooner or later, their lack of evidence to back up their allegations would have been exposed in court. And there are strong reasons to suspect that they too might have had a role in the suspicious murder of Qateel inside jail,” the editorial claims.

It argues that the Maharashtra ATS had failed to file a chargesheet against Qateel in seven months and points out that his fate underlines the vulnerability of Muslim youth arrested on terror charges. “There are many cases of fake encounters and custodial deaths and it is common for them to be kept in illegal custody for long periods,” it says.

“Jails are notorious for attacks on accused prisoners, and there have been many cases in which key witnesses, who stand to embarrass governments or investigative agencies, have been eliminated within jails,” it says, and demands an impartial inquiry and provide compensation to Qateel’s family.

Compiled by Manoj C.G.

nawabs · Post by **nawabs** » 20 Jun 2012 20:36

The IAP inflation

http://pragmatic.nationalinterest.in/

When it was proposed, the Integrated Action Plan (or the IAP) was a scheme designed to undertake fast-track development work in those districts which were severely affected by the Maoist violence. The plan was to originally cover 33 districts which were most affected by Maoist violence, got expanded to 34 and subsequently to 35 districts. Before the scheme could however be announced, the emphasis shiftedaway from the Maoists and the IAP was expanded to cover other tribal and backward districts, bringing the number of such districts to 60. The plan was rechristened as The Integrated Action Plan (IAP) for Selected Tribal and Backward Districts under the BRGF programme. The district level officials of these 60 districts were given a block grant of Rs 25 crore and Rs 30 crore per district from the Union government during 2010-11 and 2011-12 respectively, and their progress was being monitored directly by Delhi.

The list was subsequently expanded to 78 districts . And the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs yesterday added another 4 districts to the list, taking the total number to 82. So far, so good. Not really, because four new districts carved out of Maoist-affected Dantewada, Bastar and Sarguja districts in Chhattisgarh this January — Sukma, Kondagaon, Balrampur and Surajpur — have not been included under the IAP. But Chhindwara in Madhya Pradesh, not affected by the Maoist menace, has made it to the list. Of course, that Chhindwara happens to be the parliamentary constituency of Union Minister Kamalnath must be a mere coincidence.

The idea of development preceding security in Maoist areas is a flawed one. IAP, as designed originally was, itself flawed with the back-loaded component of funds, and has been a muddle from its inception. The problem has now been compounded with the mindless dilution of the list — the IAP is just like another patronage scheme for selected districts, in the guise of bringing fast-paced development to Maoist-affected areas.

But there is a bigger danger of this expansion of IAP to 82 districts. The IAP is commonly understood and referred to as a development scheme for districts severely affected by Maoist violence. If IAP covers 82 districts, it will be assumed that at least 82 districts in India are severely affected by violence. But that is not true.

In the list of SRE (Security Related Expenditure) districts, there are 83 districts in nine states where all the expenses incurred on security are reimbursed by the Union Home Ministry. SRE districts are those districts where more than 20% of the police stations have experienced some incidents of Maoist violence. Within these 83 SRE districts, 35 have been classified as ‘focus’ districts. There are the most hardship prone districts, wherein the paramilitary personnel posted to these districts avail an enhanced hardship allowance. Only these 35 districts are severely affected by the Maoist insurgency and the IAP, when proposed initially was to be restricted — logically — to these 35 districts.

As an aside, the proliferation of the list of IAP districts is not happening in isolation. The list of districts covered under Backward Regions Grant Fund (BRGF), which was initiated in August 2006 and aims to catalyze development in backward areas, is proliferating equally fast. It now covers 272 districts in India (out of a total of 640 districts).

Now look at the unintended message government of India is sending by covering half its districts under special development schemes: the routine systems and processes of governance in this country have failed miserably. If these special interventions are the only way out, why not put the whole country under these special interventions? Perhaps that would have been done by now but for the real purpose of these schemes — to dispense patronage, by sending a message of doing something for the poor and the backward. The perils of India being a Socialist Republic!

Sachin · Post by **Sachin** » 25 Jun 2012 21:18

x-posted from the Police Investigations thread...

Since I was pretty much giving a running commentary on the politically motivated murders in Kerala, here comes the last part. From now on, it would be more of court procedures. My sincere wish is that the media does not lose interest in this case, and continue to highlight the progress.

This is one of the worst testing times the commies (CPI(M)) ever had in Kerala.

TP murder: PK Kunhanandan surrenders (Mathrubhumi:English)
This fellow PK Kunhanandan is an area committee member. He was in hiding for nearly a month, and in during the last few days running from pillar to post. All the other accused have given statements that this chap was actively involved in the T.P Chandrasekharan's murder. He tried to run away to Bangalore, and then came back to the northern districts of Kerala (Kasaragode and Kannur). He did try to have a "compromise" with the police, but they did not agree with his plans. Finally he appeared at the Vadakara courts last Saturday at around 12:30 noon when the court was about to close its business. The Asst. Public Prosecutor generally has his appearance in another local court and the commies thought that this fellow can ask for around 3 days of juidical custody and then report sick and get moved to the hospital.

The police landed up in the court in quick time, with all requests for "police custody" in place. The magistrate also took 30 mins to take up the case. The application of the police was accepted and Kunhanandan is now in 10 days police custody. One of his earlier escapes from the police was by wearing a Purdah. Latest report says that this fellow is stubborn and not forthcoming in his response to the police. The police feels that he is the one person who can point to the tacit approvals given by the senior commie cadre in Kerala for such nefarious activities.

Fasal murder: Karayi Rajan and Chandrasekharan surrender (Mathrubhumi:English)
Another two commie hoodlums landed up in the courts at Ernakulam seeking bail. This was in the case of murdering one Fasal a person who moved to NDF from CPI(M). The CBI is investigating this case. Last week the courts had given non-bailable arrest warrants for the duo, and they had no much options other than to surrender. The CBI did not try to arrest them by using force, because they were holed up in commie strong holds. The CBI had planned to get them tagged as "absconders" and attach their properties.

Karayi Rajan after the murder of Fasal, repeatedly said that it was RSS which was behind the murders. The idea was to create communal tension in parts of the state. Karayi Rajan is also supposed to have played a role in the T.P Chandrasekharan murder case as well.

TP murder: Two more taken into custody
The police going hammer and tongs over the people who helped the accused hide from the law. Looks like commies tried to use women and children as human shields, but the police had their way.

Kodi Suni, two others nabbed (The Hindu: English)
Three folks who were phyiscally present during the murder was also arrested last week. They were in hiding on a hill top with forest cover. They were there for nearly 30 days with the local commie folks providing them all provisions for a comfortable stay. The police had tracked them based on following the "food trail" and understanding that people may be camping in secret in the forest. An early morning raid (named "Op. Silent Night") helped nabbing the duo.

Yayavar · Post by **Yayavar** » 25 Jun 2012 22:50

RamaY wrote:^ That is one aspect.

The second aspect is how the out-of-India NGOs and govts are using Indians to do their bidding, is a lesson on how India got colonized before.

This is what Bji called Mercantilist mentality.

Yes, and the 'economic argument' is used in 'give away Siachen' too. It seems to ensnare a lot of Indians in various ways.

abhishek_sharma · Post by **abhishek_sharma** » 27 Jun 2012 06:32

Views from the Left

EURO PLEDGE

The latest issue of CPM weekly People’s Democracy criticises Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for pledging $10 billion to the IMF to help the eurozone at the recently held G-20 Summit. It says that this generosity has come at a time when the Indian people are being subjected to “growing economic burdens” due to the rise in prices of essential commodities. “Instead of seeking to assist the economically advanced European Union, India could have done well to use this money to spare the already groaning people from further burdens,” it notes.

Taking a dig at the PM, the editorial says that he often uses the term “enlightened national interest” as the guiding principle for his government’s policies and asks whether pledging such “enlightened assistance” to developed countries meet India’s “enlightened national interests”.“Clearly, the PM is hoping that if India contributes to international finance capital... the eurozone’s recovery would create a new financial bubble whose expansion would benefit India... Little seems to have been learnt from the current crisis and recession... Bubbles always burst eventually... a fresh crisis will engulf the global economy,” it argues.

It states that rather than waiting for the eurozone to recover, the PM could have used the same resources for an expansion in public investment to build much-needed infrastructure.“This would have generated substantial additional employment in the country and would consequently have vastly expanded the aggregate domestic demand,” it concludes.

CPM OPPORTUNISM

The editorial in the CPM(ML) journal ML Update focuses on the “curious pattern” of political alignment that has emerged in the run up to the presidential election. It attacks the CPM for deciding to back the UPA candidate, Pranab Mukherjee. It claims that the CPM’s support for Mukherjee has come with the “most bankrupt of arguments” — that the presidential poll should be delinked from the political battle against neoliberal policies.

“For all those who had taken the CPM’s Kozhikode Congress call for ‘Left and democratic alternative’ as a sign of ‘leftward restoration and rectification’ within the party, the recent Kerala developments and the decision to support the Congress nominee in (the) presidential election should serve as an important ‘reality check’”, it says.

The editorial called this the “height of opportunist bankruptcy” and argued that the CPM argument of supporting the Congress to keep the BJP out of power was irrelevant. “The only principled course for the Left in this presidential election could have been to abstain,” it concludes.

WORRY OVER PAK

The CPI fears that the crisis in Pakistan, triggered by its Supreme Court’s decision to disqualify Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, will destabilise a country already facing the threat of a takeover by religious fundamentalists and terrorist outfits. “An unstable Pakistan will have (an) adverse impact on the entire Southeast Asia,” says an editorial in party weekly New Age.

It notes that despite the 2008 terror attack in Mumbai, the Pakistan Peoples Party regime had shown flexibility in improving relations with India. “Turmoil and consequent takeover by either the army or religious fundamentalist forces upset the entire revival... This will also jeopardise the process of regional cooperation for political stabilisation and development of Afghanistan after the withdrawal of NATO”.

Compiled by Manoj C.G

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 29 Jun 2012 10:21

Ok time for Human Rights Violation babble by Media, A.Roy's Harsh Mander's, Binayek Sen's.

16 Naxalites killed in Dantewada encounter

chaanakya · Post by **chaanakya** » 02 Jul 2012 19:03

Aditya_V wrote:Ok time for Human Rights Violation babble by Media, A.Roy's Harsh Mander's, Binayek Sen's.

16 Naxalites killed in Dantewada encounter

K Vijaya Kumar's Interview on TimesNow is an example of how it should be handled. He clearly said nobody has business to fire at Security forces and I have given order to shoot if fired upon. If someone wants to surrender allow them to surrender.
His interview would give moral boost to CRPF. INC must be cringing at this blasting interview since local Congoons were attributing malafide on State Govt and its forces. Now CRPF DG sayd there was no malafide.
Congrates.
Links would be available later.

sum · Post by **sum** » 02 Jul 2012 19:39

^^ He said the same on CNN-IBN and NDTV when the anchors were asking clearly provocative questions..

Pathetic attitude by the DDM, must say!

chaanakya · Post by **chaanakya** » 02 Jul 2012 19:46

sum wrote:^^ He said the same on CNN-IBN and NDTV when the anchors were asking clearly provocative questions..

Pathetic attitude by the DDM, must say!

He is one of the best Police officer around. Sent Verappan to his Maker. Destined to send many more Maoists to meet Lenin and Stalin. Been Director of the Academy which helped in composing his thoughts better. No nonsense guy.

Sachin · Post by **Sachin** » 02 Jul 2012 21:32

chaanakya wrote:He is one of the best Police officer around.

+1. And he also give credits to all his junior officers as well. He was the first to hunt down (and kill) notorious rowdies of Chennai. Then silently he worked on weeding out dear old Veeru. After seeing the theatrics of folks like Sangliana and Rambo Gopala krishnan, the way he handled the operation was really good.

RoyG · Post by **RoyG** » 02 Jul 2012 22:05

Nidhi Razdan sinks to a new low. Frustrating to watch this clip. Vijay Kumar gave a very professional reply along with Prakash Singh. Same strategy of asking for probe after batla house is being executed.

http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/left-r ... /238010?hp

sum · Post by **sum** » 03 Jul 2012 08:23

RoyG wrote:Nidhi Razdan sinks to a new low. Frustrating to watch this clip. Vijay Kumar gave a very professional reply along with Prakash Singh. Same strategy of asking for probe after batla house is being executed.

http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/left-r ... /238010?hp

Wanted to throw something at the TV when watching this interview yesterday.

This same $%@^& will be fawning over real scum of the earth like Kayani, Mush etc but will interview our own security men as if they were some murderers. Pathetic.

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 03 Jul 2012 10:39

Please understand DDM, has support of X national party. DDM supports Maoists, Hurrirat, Ulfa, Paki Army, Rape class and whole bunch of JNU ding dings.

Sometimes, one wonders on whose side are our countries RUlign Elite on.

member_23629 · Post by **member_23629** » 03 Jul 2012 12:08

Aditya_V wrote:Please understand DDM, has support of X national party. DDM supports Maoists, Hurrirat, Ulfa, Paki Army, Rape class and whole bunch of JNU ding dings.

Sometimes, one wonders on whose side are our countries RUlign Elite on.

Congress is an extension of the Western rule on India, and reflects all the White Man's prejudices against Indians -- anti-Hinduism, dalit separatism, communist insurgency, divide and rule, position one community against other in a hostile posture, etc. Congress does to India what the White Christians want done to the country -- perpetuation of poverty, hounding Hindu nationalists, strict controls on economy, weakening the army, a contempt for native culture, support to Muslims against the Hindus, promoting leftists / liberals to take on native nationalism, funding hate literature against the Hindus through the Rajiv Gandhi foundation, undermining Sanskrit in schools, de-Hinduising state institutions, reservation for Muslims and Christians to weaken the Hindu hold over the country, rewriting history with malicious intent to brainwash students, carrot and stick policy for journalists to make them support Congress and attack its political competitors, etc.

The behaviour and world view of Congress is a carbon copy of the Whites regarding India. That is why someone from the Caucasian race ruling India is easily accepted by Congressmen as the natural order of things. The creation of Congress by the Whites and then manoevering Gandhi and Nehru into its leadership positions was a master stroke by them. Hindus will never taste true freedom as long as this party is around. The Whites are making all-out efforts to keep this party ruling in India.

Nihat · Post by **Nihat** » 03 Jul 2012 14:50

‘Why don’t Reds, cops fight it out in jungles?

The operation was planned on intelligence inputs of heavy Maoist movement in Silger. So, our destination was Silger. Within a few km of starting from Basaguda camp for the operation, we were fired upon,” he said. As they neared Sarkeguda after 9 pm, CRPF men heard voices followed by a shout, “Policewallah aa raha hai.”

Soon after a burst fire hit the CRPF contingent injuring six of its men. A government doctor said some of the jawans were injured by pellets. “We don’t use weapons firing pellets.Then whofired at us?” said the officer. Once thejawanstook a hit,thecontingent retaliated. The gun battle lasted for about 30 minutes.

Maoist trouble may force govt to shut Bhilai plant

New Delhi: Facing serious threat from Maoists to iron ore mines which cater to the government-owned Bhilai steel plant in Chhattisgarh, the Centre has decided to deploy additional paramilitary forces in the area to guard an ambitious mining project of Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) and help in construction of a 235-km railway track to transport ore slurry through the Naxal-hit area.

kshatriya · Post by **kshatriya** » 03 Jul 2012 21:29

People should keep an eye on this parasite...Major Red propaganda being done on her FB page.....Can such things be stopped under Treason ?

Raja Bose · Post by **Raja Bose** » 03 Jul 2012 21:35

^^^CRPF should very politely publish the forensics report of the bullets which were taken out of the injured jawans and ask the learned media, swami jis and health workers, why were the villagers firing on the police? Or is Right to Fire one of our new fundamental rights?

Nidhi Razdan needs to be taken along on one of the operations - all such armchair marshal nonsense will go out of her head in an instant. She must be of significantly inferior intelligence if she thinks one can distinguish a 15 year old girl in the middle of a heavy ambush with bullets flying all over the place in pitch black darkness.

chaanakya · Post by **chaanakya** » 03 Jul 2012 21:44

chaanakya wrote:
K Vijaya Kumar's Interview on TimesNow is an example of how it should be handled. He clearly said nobody has business to fire at Security forces and I have given order to shoot if fired upon. If someone wants to surrender allow them to surrender.
His interview would give moral boost to CRPF. INC must be cringing at this blasting interview since local Congoons were attributing malafide on State Govt and its forces. Now CRPF DG sayd there was no malafide.
Congrates.
Links would be available later.

Well I got link ofZEETV

New Delhi: Facing the charge of fake encounter killing of 20 people in Chhattisgarh's Maoist hotbed, CRPF on Monday defended its action saying it was "bonafide" and wondered if only killing of security forces should be the norm.

CRPF Director General K Vijay Kumar said his force, deep inside the jungles of Silger in Bijapur district, drew the first fire in the night and his men retaliated according to the laid down Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).

"You will have to see the facts...Where is the area where this incident happened, which is the force that went into the operation..The CRPF went in along with local police into an area which is considered liberated, it is our legitimate duty to go there. We drew the first fire. What exactly happened can be asceratined by the forensics...I don't want to comment on that.

"You cannot lay the entire blame on the CRPF or the state police. We have always shown extreme restraint and this was a bonafide action," the CRPF chief said. Kumar said that after six of his men were injured in the encounter, retaliation was the only option for them.

"What else option was available to them there? Otherwise, we would be dying as usual and you would be saying security forces once again are incompetent. Can't we get it right?," the DG told NDTV's Left, Right and Centre programme.

Kumar said his "only point" was that one cannot always blame the security forces and maintain that the other side is innocent (Naxalites).

"We have gone to that area (Silger)...There was no police force there..There was coercive rule and we are trying to bring the locals in that area to the normal Indian polity and in this bargain, if a few lives...Blaming CRPF or state police is not fair," he said.

Kumar today briefed Home Minister P Chidambaram about the operation.

Meanwhile, the Home Ministry has also sought a report from the state government on the encounter that took place on June 29 in the Maoist hotbed of Jagargunda and Basaguda in Bijapur district.

chaanakya · Post by **chaanakya** » 03 Jul 2012 21:53

^^ http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/news/n ... arh/237983

RoyG · Post by **RoyG** » 03 Jul 2012 23:46

Going along on an operation won't change what she is doing. Nidhi has to pay a mortgage.

abhishek_sharma · Post by **abhishek_sharma** » 04 Jul 2012 06:00

Views from the Left

Act of Surrender

In an article in his party’s journal, ML Update, CPI(ML) General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya critically analyses the CPM’s decision to back Pranab Mukherjee in the presidential election. He says that CPM General Secretary Prakash Karat’s article defending his party’s decision represented the growing disconnect between the party’s tactics from its strategic proclamations and perspectives.

“Limiting the agenda of the presidential election to ‘secularism’, even when there is no chance of the BJP nominee winning the election, and when the Congress candidate in question is a key custodian of the neoliberal, pro-imperialist order in every realm of policymaking and governance, clearly shows the real meaning of the CPM’s ranting against neoliberalism and imperialism,” he says.

He further argues that “by supporting Mukherjee, the CPM hopes to widen the rift between the Congress and the TMC and revive the party in Bengal. Little does the CPM realise that its growing proximity and identification with the Congress would grant much bigger leeway to the TMC to exploit the growing countrywide resentment against the Congress”.

He goes on to claim that the communists have built their base through direct struggle and that instead of developing and implementing tactical measures that would help consolidate and broaden that base, defensive and opportunistic tactics have blunted communist politics.

“The dream of stronger political intervention cannot be fulfilled with tactical measures that only blunt the edge of struggle and sacrifice opportunities and platforms to propagate, project and popularise the political agenda of the Left for ‘presumed’ gains that are invariably more wishful and transient than real and enduring. The exacting reality of class struggle never allows communists the luxury to pass off acts of surrender as tactical masterstrokes,” he concludes.

Insufficient MSP

An article in CPM weekly People’s Democracy argues that the minimum support price (MSP) for kharif crops announced by the government was inadequate, given that the cost of production has gone up over the years. It also slams the media for depicting it as the biggest-ever hike and fuelling fears that it will stoke food inflation.

It claims that even if one goes by the findings of the government’s own advisory body — the commission on agricultural costs and prices — which came up with the kharif price policy document last fiscal on the basis of the cost of production data of 2008-09, it is found that the MSP fixed on the basis of weighted average cost of production did not meet the cost of production in many states even last year. Elaborating, it says that the weighted average cost of production (C2) for paddy in 2011-12 was Rs 887.82 per quintal.

“Even if one were to uncritically take Rs 887.82 per quintal as the C2, and apply the M.S. Swaminathan Commission’s recommendation of C2+50 per cent to compute the MSP, it would have come to Rs 1331.73 per quintal in 2011-12. Now, after one full year, the government has announced an MSP of Rs 1250 per quintal and Rs 1280 per quintal for paddy for 2012-13 kharif,” it says.

It argues that ever since 2008-09, the price of inputs has increased. Fertiliser prices have increased markedly since the nutrient-based subsidy regime came into being and “moreover, the department of fertilisers has also proposed a hike of another 10 per cent in urea prices. Moves are afoot to cut the subsidies on chemical fertilisers even further on the pretext of subsidising bio-fertilisers,” it concludes.

Poor Economics

An editorial in the CPI journal New Age examines the signals emanating from North Block after Pranab Mukherjee’s exit and the demand for reform from the corporate world.

It alleges that the prime minister and the former finance minister were both enthusiastic about implementing neoliberal policies, but were under the compulsion of electoral politics. According to the article, the PM has been emphasising the need to create a favourable atmosphere for investment to revive the Indian economy. During the G-20 summit, he called for harsh decisions to revive dwindling economies and promised to take such steps in India, the editorial notes. “Besides, symbolising his total agreement with the bailout packages proposed by the IMF that envisages nationalisation of private debt and cuts in public spending for crucial sectors like education and public health, the PM pledged $10 billion to the IMF for the eurozone rescue fund,” it says. “The PM has always pleaded for scrapping all subsidies.”

The editorial criticises the government for having “no plans to bring down inflation. While unemployment is on the rise, several lakhs of people [sic] have lost jobs. The growing cleavage between the haves and have-nots is glaring. Despite all this, UPA 2 wants to give more concessions to corporate houses and impose new economic burdens on the people, and the latest example is the decision to impose service tax on most services”.

Compiled by Manoj C.G.

member_23629 · Post by **member_23629** » 04 Jul 2012 10:43

Some English media journalists are playing a traitorous role against India and batting for those who want to take over the country. This behaviour has worsened since foriegn funding was allowed into TV news channels -- who knows what strings the Westerners are pulling from behind the scenes as they are signing the cheques of these so-called journalists (who are actually not journalists but just Westernized socialites, the privileged sons and daughters of bureaucrats and minor politicans). The problem is, these people have support of Congress party which protects them.

krisna · Post by **krisna** » 05 Jul 2012 20:54

cross post from IA army dhaaga.

Agree with hnair and pmund.

wrt helos to be used against red menace, it is a absolute no -no.
the maoists are our own people.
The collateral damage will be immense. it will also give lot of eyeballs to local populace in the region to take up arms. maoists and their sympathisers will exploit to the hilt with foreign funding. the funding will include more arms which will also help maoists take on aerial weapons etc. It will only escalate the war which should not be the main aim.

As an example-- israel and other countries are prone to use heavy handed methods to subdue the population sometimes their own. this creates a simmering tension which will not go away for years. there will violence in other ways if the affected population cannot take on the govt of the day. there will be increased violence due to pent up frustartions.

In J&K India has not used helos or aerial weapons of any sort to kill terrorists. Always used ground forces despite overwhelming evidence of tsp support(along with 3.5 friends).

There should be improvements in ground forces ability to tackle the maosists.--
1) work on improving socio economic conditions- health, roads sanitation employment etc
2) weeding out the supporters one by one everywhere, shame those involved in it arresting some for treason etc. Here not all are anti national- some do it for money or ideology etc but when informed of dangers to the nation, many abandon this sort of work. (IMHO)
3) choking the flow of funding, clamp down hard on human rights jholawallahs. check their sources of income- check for tax evasions, IB surveillance etc

Maoists violence have been going on for years and will not come down with increased state violence on our own people.