[Marxistindia] P.B. Communique

[news from the cpi(m)]

September 27, 2015

 

Press Communiqué 

 

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) met in New Delhi
on September 26 & 27, 2015. It has issued the following statement:

 

Plenum on Organisation

 

The Polit Bureau discussed the broad outlines of the contents of the Report
and the Resolution for the Organisational Plenum to be held from December 27
to 31 of December, 2015 at Kolkata. 

 

The replies to the detailed questionnaire by the Party Centre to the State
Committees have been received and the documents for the Plenum will be
prepared incorporating these as well. The Polit Bureau will meet on 28th and
29th of October and the Party Central Committee from 13th to 16th of
November to finalise the documents for the Plenum. 

 

RSS-BJP Stand on Reservations

 

The Polit Bureau condemned the repeated assertions by the RSS chief against
the current reservations for SCs, STs and OBCs that are in force according
to constitutional directives. The RSS Chief has now stressed for a need for
a review of reservation quotas to decide which categories require such
reservations and for how long. He called for the appointment of a
independent commission to decide on this matter. He repeated to this
assertion in response to a nationwide outcry against this statement which is
widely and correctly seen as an effort to dismantle reservations and hence
undermine whatever little the country is achieving in terms of establishing
social justice. 

 

The BJP in the meanwhile is trying to project itself as a champion of the
OBCs in the Bihar elections and has cobbled up a coalition of some
representatives of the marginalized and the socially oppressed sections of
our society.

 

However, as the BJP has repeatedly in the recent past reconfirmed its role
as the political arm of the RSS, is bound to carry out the RSS diktats on
this issue. 

 

There seems to be a not so clever attempt at social engineering in the run
up to the Bihar assembly elections. The RSS stand seeks to consolidate the
upper caste support while the BJP electoral alliances and projections seeks
to appeal to the SC, ST and backward sections. Such a diabolic “division of
labour” strategy will surely be rebuffed by the people.

 

The Polit Bureau is confident that the people of Bihar will see through this
nefarious game and hand a resounding defeat to the RSS/BJP in the Bihar
assembly elections. 

 

Sharpening Communal Offensive

 

The Polit Bureau noted with grave concern the growing reports of attempts to
sharpen communal polarisation all across the country particularly in Bihar
in the run up to the assembly elections. Growing reports of sharpening
communal tensions are pouring in from various parts of northern India. 

 

Simultaneously, this BJP government’s efforts to rewrite history and
position RSS personnel in all leading bodies of educational research are
proceeding with a renewed offensive. History is being rewritten. The Delhi
University had hosted a meet of the so-called academicians who have declared
that the Vedic Age is now 6000 years earlier than what has been established
through a rigorous scientific study. This is a perfidious exercise to
establish that the Aryans originated in India and they alone are the
original inhabitants.

 

Clearly this BJP government is proceeding with a frenzied hurry to replace
Indian history with Hindu mythology and rich Indian philosophy with Hindu
theology. 

 

The Polit Bureau called upon all the units of the CPI(M) to organize a
nationwide campaign against this communal offensive. The CPI(M) appeals to
secular forces and elements in the country who cherish our inherited legacy
of a syncretic civilisational ethos to come forward and unitedly thwart
these designs.

 

Growing Burdens on the People

 

The Polit Bureau noted with concern the relentless mounting of economic
burdens on the people. Price rise continues to torment with now the staple
protein nutrition of our people – dals – costing at rates which are beyond
the capacity of the common people, including many middle class families. 

 

All the economic policies and slogans announced with great fanfare by this
BJP government and PM Modi have not brought any revival of economic growth
in the country. On the contrary, notwithstanding the manipulation of
official statistics, an industrial turnaround is not visible. Consequently
unemployment is rapidly growing.

 

The agrarian distress continues to deepen. The deficient rainfall this year
has only compounded the misery of our farmers, consequently growing despair
in rural India. Peasants suicides continue to be reported from areas
hitherto thought to have risen above the agrarian crisis. 

 

In this background even the meager relief that the vast mass of our people
were receiving through central schemes like the MNREGA is being drastically
reduced. Adequate financial allocations are not being released by the
Central government for the schemes. Beneficiaries of the rural employment
programme are now being driven to despair and incidents of suicides among
them are also being reported. Even the scanty public distribution system is
being dismantled. This is accelerating rural misery in our country. 

 

The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) calls upon all its units across the country
to organize protest movements against the current policies of the Central
Government and the respective state governments which are compounding
people’s economic miseries. Depending on the local conditions and focusing
on the most burning issues before the people there CPI(M) units must build
and strengthen popular mobilizations against the policies of this BJP
central government. 

 

New Nepal Constitution.

 

CPI(M) welcomes the adoption of the federal democratic secular Constitution
by an overwhelming majority of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal. Nepal has
now been declared a Republic. 

 

India and Nepal have historically shared very close good neighbourly
relations. The CPI(M) has always maintained that all decisions regarding
Nepal’s political structures are matters that are sovereign to the people of
Nepal. In this light the CPI(M) heartily congratulates the people and its
major political leadership on this long due historic adoption of the Nepal
Constitution. This is the culmination of a long and arduous struggle by the
people of Nepal for democracy, secularism and federalism in their country.
For a decade after the overthrow of the monarchy the people of Nepal were
debating on this Constitution and have now finally adopted it. The CPI(M)
wishes them all success. 

 

The CPI(M) notes with dismay the most unfortunate position that this
government under PM Modi has taken with regard to this historic democratic
advance of Nepal. The RSS/BJP are dismayed that Nepal has rejected the
demands to declare itself as a “Hindu Rashtra”. The CPI(M) calls upon the
Central Government to ensure that the country to country and people to
people relations between India and Nepal must strengthen without any
obstacles being erected in this process. 

 

PM Modi Further Succumbs to US Imperialist Pressures

 

PM Modi currently on a visit to the USA appears to have further compromised
India’s position on climate change succumbing to US pressures. The USA
abandoning the principle established during the last two decades of global
negotiations on climate change that upheld the principle of “common but
differentiated responsibility”, underlining the fact that the developed
countries having contributed the most to environmentally destructive carbon
emissions will take greater responsibility in reducing them, has now
announced unilaterally voluntary targets of cuts in carbon emissions.
Instead of resisting such pressures, PM Modi, it is reported, seems to have
committed India to similar declaration of voluntary targets which are now
called Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs). Further, PM
Modi seems to have abandoned the insistence on the western industrialized
countries fulfilling their obligations under the treaties of these
negotiations to making available financial resources to the developing
countries to move towards expensive “greener technologies” and facilitating
the transfer of such technologies without the obligations of Intellectual
Patent obligations.

 

Such succumbing to US pressures by PM Modi will have a serious impact
denying the vast majority of Indian people energy resources essential for
socio-economic development and poverty reduction apart from providing energy
to meet the urgent needs of sanitation and hygiene. 

 

The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) strongly condemns this succumbing of the BJP
government to US imperialist pressures even on this score. 

 






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Attention was drawn to an interview of Somnath Chatterjee in the Economic
Times of September 15, 2015. The CPI(M) rejects the views expressed therein
regarding CPI(M)’s relations with the Congress, joining Central governments,
CPI(M)’s Party leadership etc. These are matters that have been thoroughly
discussed and decided upon by successive Party Congresses.

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Hari Singh Kang)

For Central Committee Office

 

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