CPM politburo member and parliamentary party leader Com. Sitaram Yechury has expressed hope that Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and ADMK chief Jayalalitha would send a representative to the anti-communal convention slated in Delhi on October 30.
“We want to bring together all the secular forces in the country for the anti- communal convention in order to safeguard the foundations of the Indian republic. We have invited the chief ministers of Tamil Nadu, Bihar and Odisha. Jayalalitha may not be able to travel but she will send someone. Most probably she may send MPs like Thambi Durai,” Yechury said. He said the secular parties have been preparing to come together to secure India from communal forces.
Com. Yechury as well as his General Secretary Prakash Karat, both educated in Chennai, are well aware of the political and social history of Tamil Nadu. Undoubtedly both are well read intellectuals. Precisely that makes us wonder as to how they came to the conclusion that Jayalalitha is secular and secure India from communal forces.
Com. Yechury was in Chennai on October 20 for participating in the centenary celebrations of Indian born Pakistani Urdu writer Saadat Hasan, Manto organised by the CPM-led Tamil Nadu Progressive Writers and Artistes Association in Chennai.
Ironically, it was in yet another Anti-communal politics conference organised by the same Tamil Nadu Progressive Writers and Artistes’ Association in Madurai that former Chairman of Tuticorin Port Trust and Sethusamudram Ship Canal Project gave a special lecture with slide shows on the project debunking the propaganda of Hindu communal forces of Ramar bridge to oppose the project.
It is Jayalalitha, suddenly found out to be ‘secular to save India from communal forces’ by these respected comrades, who is spearheading the reactionary and blatantly communal concept of ‘Ramar Sethu’ to stall this valuable project and has moved the Supreme Court to scrap the project.
Comrades Yechury and Karat may be reminded that on September 1 a book “Dr. Manmohan Singh – A Decade of Decay”, is a compilation of select articles authored by M R Venkatesh, was launched in Chennai by ‘senior’ BJP leader Subramanian Swamy. Inaugural speech was given by Nambi Narayan – Swadeshi Jagran Manch, an outfit of Sangh Parivar. Special addresses were given by Dr. Swamy and S. Gurumurthy, RSS ideologue. Obviously, it was a release from the Saffron brigade. The aim of book was to launch a tirade on the 10-year rule of the Congress party at the Centre. But quite unconnectedly a chapter under the heading “Why Jayalalitha will lead our national discourse” is inserted in the collection. It deals with Jayalalitha’s stringent protest against the Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence Bill introduced by the UPA government in 2011 and stoutly opposed by forces on the expected line, the BJP and Hindu communal forces- the only non-Sangh parivar leader to oppose it was Jayalalitha! That is the reason for this author to select her to lead the ‘national discourse’. In this article M.R.Venkatesh goes on to proclaim her as future Prime Minister and dares to say,
“The Americans (so do several other countries) seem to recognise this fact and prepare for life after Dr Singh’s exit from office. The visit of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Chennai a fortnight back seems to suggest the growing realisation of the international community that sooner than later they have to necessarily deal with Jaya at the national and international level”
Incidentally, on January 15 last year (2012), the daily ‘The New Indian Express’ reported,
“BharatiyaJanata Party (BJP) veteran Lal Krishna Advani has described Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha-led All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (ADMK) as a ‘natural ally’ of his political outfit.
Speaking on the occasion of the 42nd anniversary celebrations of Tamil weekly ‘Thuglaq’ in Chennai on Saturday January 14, 2012), Advani hailed Jayalalitha for lending unconditional support to the BJP in Parliament.
“When I think in terms of the kind of political parties that associate and cooperate with us, we happen to be the principal opposition against the present government and among the parties that have been continuously cooperating with us, helping us in all respects, it is not nearly- AIADMK may not be a part of the NDA but the kind of cooperation and assistance we have received from the party under the leadership of Jayalalithaji has been total,” said Advani.
“There has been no reservation of any kind. Jayalalithaji, AIADMK, have been functioning as natural allies of my party,” he added”.
These are the latest instances to show how rabidly Jayalalitha is communal of appeal to the Saffron forces, leave alone that she defended constructing Ram temple at the disputed site in Ayodya at the National Development Council meeting in early 1990s and sent volunteers for Kar Seva at Aydohya by Hindutva forces and opposed reservation for Muslims when it was introduced in Andhra Pradesh.
By any yardstick Jayalalitha cannot even be imagined to be secular and even her own party functionaries will laugh at that idea, because they know their ‘Amma’ well.
If anti-Congress stand on issues is the only criterion for the CPM leaders to invite ADMK to join secular, democratic, political alternative sans Congress and BJP, Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress will be a much more dependable ally. Will the CPM and other Left parties invite that party also?
No. They have stated that political situation at the national and State levels have been taken into account.
Significantly, a report under the headline “Left’s overtures show Jayalalitha is a key figure in Delhi” in ‘The Hindu’ on October 21 dealing with Yechury’s visit to Chennai and the convention against communalism in New Delhi ends with a paragraph stating,
“But, for the Left this time, regional considerations will take precedence over national initiatives.
Though the CPI(M) leaders and Sharad Yadav of Janata Dal (United) are keen on inviting Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy, the CPI state unit in Andhra Pradesh is averse to the idea, as Mr. Reddy opposes Telangana. It has also been decided not to invite Telugu Desam Party leader Chandrababu Naidu.
A senior CPI (M) leader says broad agreements and pre-poll links such as the one with the ADMK may quickly change after the elections. “There may well be a complete shifting of sands after the Lok Sabha polls and we will not know who will be with whom. We don’t see the emergence of a concrete political formation against the Congress and the BJP even during the Lok Sabha polls. There will be arrangements in every State,” he said”.
This is nothing but crash opportunism to get some seats from every state and all these ideological and principled pretentions of Comrades Prakash Karat and Sitaram Yechury will cut no ice with rational and logical minds. r
“We want to bring together all the secular forces in the country for the anti- communal convention in order to safeguard the foundations of the Indian republic. We have invited the chief ministers of Tamil Nadu, Bihar and Odisha. Jayalalitha may not be able to travel but she will send someone. Most probably she may send MPs like Thambi Durai,” Yechury said. He said the secular parties have been preparing to come together to secure India from communal forces.
Com. Yechury as well as his General Secretary Prakash Karat, both educated in Chennai, are well aware of the political and social history of Tamil Nadu. Undoubtedly both are well read intellectuals. Precisely that makes us wonder as to how they came to the conclusion that Jayalalitha is secular and secure India from communal forces.
Com. Yechury was in Chennai on October 20 for participating in the centenary celebrations of Indian born Pakistani Urdu writer Saadat Hasan, Manto organised by the CPM-led Tamil Nadu Progressive Writers and Artistes Association in Chennai.
Ironically, it was in yet another Anti-communal politics conference organised by the same Tamil Nadu Progressive Writers and Artistes’ Association in Madurai that former Chairman of Tuticorin Port Trust and Sethusamudram Ship Canal Project gave a special lecture with slide shows on the project debunking the propaganda of Hindu communal forces of Ramar bridge to oppose the project.
It is Jayalalitha, suddenly found out to be ‘secular to save India from communal forces’ by these respected comrades, who is spearheading the reactionary and blatantly communal concept of ‘Ramar Sethu’ to stall this valuable project and has moved the Supreme Court to scrap the project.
Comrades Yechury and Karat may be reminded that on September 1 a book “Dr. Manmohan Singh – A Decade of Decay”, is a compilation of select articles authored by M R Venkatesh, was launched in Chennai by ‘senior’ BJP leader Subramanian Swamy. Inaugural speech was given by Nambi Narayan – Swadeshi Jagran Manch, an outfit of Sangh Parivar. Special addresses were given by Dr. Swamy and S. Gurumurthy, RSS ideologue. Obviously, it was a release from the Saffron brigade. The aim of book was to launch a tirade on the 10-year rule of the Congress party at the Centre. But quite unconnectedly a chapter under the heading “Why Jayalalitha will lead our national discourse” is inserted in the collection. It deals with Jayalalitha’s stringent protest against the Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence Bill introduced by the UPA government in 2011 and stoutly opposed by forces on the expected line, the BJP and Hindu communal forces- the only non-Sangh parivar leader to oppose it was Jayalalitha! That is the reason for this author to select her to lead the ‘national discourse’. In this article M.R.Venkatesh goes on to proclaim her as future Prime Minister and dares to say,
“The Americans (so do several other countries) seem to recognise this fact and prepare for life after Dr Singh’s exit from office. The visit of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Chennai a fortnight back seems to suggest the growing realisation of the international community that sooner than later they have to necessarily deal with Jaya at the national and international level”
Incidentally, on January 15 last year (2012), the daily ‘The New Indian Express’ reported,
“BharatiyaJanata Party (BJP) veteran Lal Krishna Advani has described Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha-led All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (ADMK) as a ‘natural ally’ of his political outfit.
Speaking on the occasion of the 42nd anniversary celebrations of Tamil weekly ‘Thuglaq’ in Chennai on Saturday January 14, 2012), Advani hailed Jayalalitha for lending unconditional support to the BJP in Parliament.
“When I think in terms of the kind of political parties that associate and cooperate with us, we happen to be the principal opposition against the present government and among the parties that have been continuously cooperating with us, helping us in all respects, it is not nearly- AIADMK may not be a part of the NDA but the kind of cooperation and assistance we have received from the party under the leadership of Jayalalithaji has been total,” said Advani.
“There has been no reservation of any kind. Jayalalithaji, AIADMK, have been functioning as natural allies of my party,” he added”.
These are the latest instances to show how rabidly Jayalalitha is communal of appeal to the Saffron forces, leave alone that she defended constructing Ram temple at the disputed site in Ayodya at the National Development Council meeting in early 1990s and sent volunteers for Kar Seva at Aydohya by Hindutva forces and opposed reservation for Muslims when it was introduced in Andhra Pradesh.
By any yardstick Jayalalitha cannot even be imagined to be secular and even her own party functionaries will laugh at that idea, because they know their ‘Amma’ well.
If anti-Congress stand on issues is the only criterion for the CPM leaders to invite ADMK to join secular, democratic, political alternative sans Congress and BJP, Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress will be a much more dependable ally. Will the CPM and other Left parties invite that party also?
No. They have stated that political situation at the national and State levels have been taken into account.
Significantly, a report under the headline “Left’s overtures show Jayalalitha is a key figure in Delhi” in ‘The Hindu’ on October 21 dealing with Yechury’s visit to Chennai and the convention against communalism in New Delhi ends with a paragraph stating,
“But, for the Left this time, regional considerations will take precedence over national initiatives.
Though the CPI(M) leaders and Sharad Yadav of Janata Dal (United) are keen on inviting Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy, the CPI state unit in Andhra Pradesh is averse to the idea, as Mr. Reddy opposes Telangana. It has also been decided not to invite Telugu Desam Party leader Chandrababu Naidu.
A senior CPI (M) leader says broad agreements and pre-poll links such as the one with the ADMK may quickly change after the elections. “There may well be a complete shifting of sands after the Lok Sabha polls and we will not know who will be with whom. We don’t see the emergence of a concrete political formation against the Congress and the BJP even during the Lok Sabha polls. There will be arrangements in every State,” he said”.
This is nothing but crash opportunism to get some seats from every state and all these ideological and principled pretentions of Comrades Prakash Karat and Sitaram Yechury will cut no ice with rational and logical minds. r
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