Election Results
C P Aboobaker
Results to Five State Legislatures are almost as expected by political observers. The attempts of the Indian ruling classes to topple the supremacy of the Left in W. Bengal have at last succeeded. The attempts have not only national roots, but it is deeply rooted internationally. The Purulia Bomb droppings in the past were only one among them. The arson, loot and cold-blooded killings in the 1970s had not succeeded the attempt at wiping out the Left from The red soil of Bengal. But the old forces have now new costumes and pretensions.
Even after a total; failure in the elections masterminded by the whole lot of the Ruling classes of India, it should be remembered that around 40% of Bengali voters are with the CPM and the left. So, now what is left before the so-called winners including Mamta Banerji, Manmohan Singh, Pranab Mukherjee and Chidambaram is whole sale human killings as was done by Suharto in Indonesia. We are afraid that they would not hesitate to resort to any kind of annihilation as the people of the country are fully enraged by the corruption and graft under the Man Mohan Govt.
The Left Front gave Bengalis universal primary education and land. The media including the news papers and the so-called independent campaign managers said to them that the main enemy is the Left that has been in power for more than thirty years. Left gave them awareness, and this awareness recoiled into wrong targets. Thus the results of globalized agricultural economy reacted on the Left that always opposed globalization. The subsidies taken away, the peasant families could not subsist on agriculture and so from each family there has been an employment hunt in various places. Their haven has been Kerala, which with the money from the Middle East provided the best available wages. Have a search into the lives of every Bengali worker now employed in Kerala; we will see that they are mostly middle peasants with three bighas or four bighas of paddy land. Each family has their young children to employment in Kerala while the rest toiled in the land with the meager manure and local seeds. The Left gave the awareness and it recoiled at the wrong target.
We are not placing any curse on the people of W. Bengal, because they are misled by national and international monopoly. But we have concern for them; what has been achieved for the last 35 years will be taken away from them; they are going to be given in bondage to Agricultural industry. Mamta promised manna, but what is in store is the killer seeds from America and Philippines. We cannot lament, we will have to tell the people of Bengal that they are put to the mercy of the Maoists because the Central UPA Govt wants to satisfy national and international monopolies. Life in Bangadesa to the grass root level will be rampaged in the immediate future.
It will be incorrect to conclude that a party that ruled over a people for thirty five years is not responsible for its debacle. The old English Lord Acton had well said it: Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The new generation of party cadre should have become highly bureaucratic and authoritarian, top some extent; party and govt must have been identified to a minimal extent. The new generation sees this before their eyes and they are unfortunately unaware of what the party and party cadre had suffered for the modern Bengal. And the only alternative before their eyes was Trinamool and Maoist gangsters elaborately assisted by national govt.
However, where there is an alternative, the people voted the alternative to power. In Tamilnadu and Pondicherry they have voted the correct alternative against the UPA corruption and graft.
Kerala has presented an entirely new picture. The extant political arithmetic did not provide any opportunity for a probable win to the LDF. But look at the result: in the Assembly of 140 LDF bagged 68 while the UDF bagged 72. UDF is in the path of power. The corruption in the UPA and the UDF was widely discussed while the central hesitation on the ban of endosulfan and their subservience to the monopoly houses and Industrial agriculture along with the imprisonment of R. Balakrishna Pillai and the sexual orgies that have again surfaced regarding Kunhalikutty were all discussed in the election. The welfare measures of the LDF govt were widely discussed. And the hectic campaign under V. S. Achthanandan naturally gave L.D. F. considerable acceptance. The people of Kerala have been almost correcting the Quinqiennial mistake of changing the govt. But LDF received only 68 seats.
The non-entities of Kerala politics are all sent to naught and self-boasting socialist jargon mongers got their deserving lesson; M. V. Raghavan lost with the whole party; Goury Amma lost with the whole party. M. P. Veerendra Kumar s so-called party received only two seats in the guise of independents.
A question remains to be asked to the Left:
Couldn t the Left get a comfortable majority? How did it lose Azecode and Peravoor in Kannur, how did it lose Trithala in Palakkad and Manalur in Thrissur? And also, may I ask how the LDF is sinking to third position in Kasarkod and Mancheswaram? If it is to prevent BJP, are we not helping a semi fascist force that is IUML, to avoid BJP getting a representation in the Assembly?
However, I feel this win is more dangerous than a defeat to the UDF and the state. It is the beginning of the disintegration of the much trumpeted United Democratic Front. Drums are beaten not to proclaim its victory, but to proclaim its destruction. The Congress will have to dilute the graft charges, molestation charges etc of the leaders of the constituent parties.
C P Aboobaker - C.P. ABOOBACKER, editor of thanalonline, belongs to Calicut in Kerala. His interests include writing, publishing poems, essays, and many more literary things. Latest writing is about Channels and Globalizations. He is a retired professor of history.
e-mail: cpaboobacker@gmail.com
