Saturday, October 26, 2013

Indian Left's corruption and criminal violence


    The Left Front (comprising of CPI(M), CPI, RSP and Forward Bloc) ruled West Bengal for 34 years from 1977 to 2011. This rule saw more than 55,000 political killings. The Left gave crucial outside support to the UPA 1 Government from 2004 to 2008. On 22 May 2005, in The Big Fight broadcast on NDTV, the CPI's Gurudas Dasgupta lied that: "There is not a single Left MP on whom a finger can be pointed" (in the 14th Lok Sabha, out of 62 Left MPs). NDTVs anchor Debang also lied while talking to Gurudas Dasgupta on a debate on tainted ministers on 18 July 2004 that: "You house is made of bricks". The Left  tried to be perceived as an 'honest group with not a single tainted MP' whereas the fact was that even at that time out of the 62 MPs, 8 were facing criminal charges (3 of CPM, 2 of CPI and 3 of RSP and Forward Bloc). 1 Left MP belonging to the Forward Bloc (member from Purulia in West Bengal) was in fact convicted of a charge as serious as rape in a case of 1982 on 12 May 2006.

  The Communists had actually supported the Partition of India in 1947, China in the 1962 war, Opposed India's Nuclear tests in 1998 while supporting China's in 1964 and called Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose as 'Tojo's Dog', drawn a cartoon of a donkey with Netaji's face, supported the Razakar movement in Hyderabad against integration with India in 1948, etc.

   Communist ideology is by nature violent and has resulted in millions of killings worldwide, e.g. in Russia and China. Stalin's Communists killed a reported 40 million in Russia (His painting is hung proudly by CPM in its Kolkata party office), Mao killed millions in China, Pol Pot also killed more than 1 million people and millions were killed in other countries too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_Communist_regimes 

   The Father of Communism, Karl Marx told them to do so. Marx states in ‘Communist Manifesto’ that “you must, therefore, confess that by "individual" you mean no other person than the bourgeois, than the middle-class owner of property. This person must indeed, be swept out of the way, and made impossible.” (Published by Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1973 edition, page 66).  The ‘Communist Manifesto’ ends with the following sentences, “The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution.” 

  This compilation is divided into: 1) Violence, criminal murders and 2) Corruption, financial dishonesty, etc by Left. Only few handpicked cases are given here as they are many many. CPI(M) is dishonest and corrupt and most importantly very violent and intolerant, kills cadres and leaders of its opponents.

Murders, criminal attacks

1- In 1997, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, the then Home Minister of the Left Government of West Bengal (who later became Chief Minister from 2000 to 2011), in a reply to an Assembly question, stated that between 1977 (when the Left Front came to power) and 1996 in these 19 years, 28,000 political murders were committed. It meant on an average 125.7 murders were effected in a month. It meant that the daily rate of murder was four. That is to say that one political murder took place every six hours for the entire period of 19 years between 1977 and 1996.

   A Leftist weekly, Mainstream reported: "From the late nineties the CPI-M claimed that they would go in for greater efficiency in dispatch of business. By this criterion their rate of murder had obviously increased with the increased efficiency of the CPI-M...Between 1977 and 1996, the rate of annual political murder on an average was 1473... In 1997, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was severely criticised for admitting such a large figure of political murders. Hence a cautious Home Minister just manipulated the figure which has to be rejected as an outlier. Anyway to come to a reliable figure of murders between 1997 and 2009, we have taken the annual average of 2284 to come to a total figure of 27,408. Thus between 1977 and 2009 the total number of murder was 28,000 + 27,408 = 55,408. It means an yearly average of 1787, a monthly average of 149 and a daily average of five. In other words, in every four hours and 50 minutes one person was being killed for political reasons in West Bengal. The CPI-M can claim credit that instead of a murder an hour they could limit it to four hour and 50 minutes per murder. What an achievement!"
 https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article2234.html 

   This was reported by none other than a Leftist weekly Mainstream itself in an article by D Bandyopadhyay on 22 August 2010. There were at least 55,000 political murders in West Bengal between 1977 to 2009, the first 32 years of the 34-year rule of the Left Front.

2-On 27 August 2003, 5 CPM workers got death sentence for killing BJP leader the very dynamic and popular Master Jayakrishnan in front of tiny tots who he was teaching on 1 Dec 1999. The traumatized children had to be counselled later- they suffered a severe shock.
This was upheld by the Kerala High Court on 26 July 2005. After this order of the High Court, the CPI(M), which gives long lectures to BJP and RSS on honouring court verdicts, openly burnt the effigy of the judge throughout the state with some workers even threatening to kill him. But the SC acquitted 4 out of the 5 in December 2006 in a bench comprising of Justice Markendey Katju and reduced the death penalty to the 5th to life imprisonment who was soon released by the Left Government in Kerala. K.T. Jayakrishnan was State Vice-President of the Kerala Unit of Yuva Morcha, a darling of the entire people irrespective of political hues and a teacher in East Mokeri U.P. School in Kannur. He was stabbed, butchered and killed in broad day-light right in front of the students whom he was teaching, by a huge CPM mob. A huge mob of CPM activists barged into the classroom, where Jayakrishnan was taking classes, pounced on him attacking him with swords, axes and machetes. Blood sprayed on the walls of the classroom and on the tiny tots. Many of the children fainted on seeing the gory sight. After killing him, the mob wrote on the class blackboard that anyone giving evidence against them would be eliminated like Jayakrishnan. They then left in a victory procession brandishing the blood-stained weapons.
But in December 2012 the Kerala Police re-opened the case.
And in July 2013 the CBI said that it will probe ‘laxity in earlier investigations’ in this case.
 
3-  In 1990, a senior lady officer of the UNICEF and another senior officer of the Government of India detected a case of huge embezzlement of UN funds by some CPI(M) organisations within the South 24 Parganas district in West Bengal during the rule of the Left Front when Jyoti Basu was the Chief Minister. When they were returning with a lot of incriminating evidence, their vehicle was attacked by CPI(M) goons. The vehicle was set on fire to destroy all documentary evidence. The women were raped and left naked on the road. It was one of the worst kinds of violence against women. Then Chief Minister Jyoti Basu remained mum and did nothing to nab the culprits.

   The driver, who tried to protect the two lady officers, was killed. Then the lady officers were raped and one of them murdered and her body without any cloth left on the open paddy field. When the then Chief Minister, Jyoti Basu, was informed of the incident, he quipped to the waiting mediamen: “Such incidents do happen, don’t they?” Thereby he put the official sanction to rape in addition to murder as an instrument of political aggression.

   This was reported by none other than Mainstream, a Leftist weekly. 
https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article2234.html  

  The Statesman dated 1 June 1990 had reported the case.

   Wikipedia reports the issue thus: "On 30 May 1990, a team of three health officers were returning to Kolkata after inspecting an immunization program in Gosaba.[1] The team consisted of Anita Dewan, the Deputy District Extension Media Officer of the West Bengal Health Department; Uma Ghosh, a senior officer of the Health Department; and Renu Ghosh, a representative of UNICEF's World Health Organization office in New Delhi. Around 6:30 pm when they had reached Bantala near the Eastern metropolitan bypass, a group of 4-5 youths stopped their car near the CPI(M) party office. The driver Abani Naia made an attempt to escape, but he lost control and the car overturned. In the mean time, another gang of 10-12 youths arrived at the spot, who pulled one of the ladies out of the car, while the others pulled out the other two ladies. The driver of the car tried to resist the youths, but failed. The attackers killed the driver and set the car on fire.[2] The lady officers were then taken to a nearby paddy field and raped. One of the ladies, who tried to resist the rapists was killed.

   The police brought the naked bodies of the officers to the emergency department of Calcutta National Medical College at around 11-30pm. Initially they were presumed to be dead, but later two of them were found to be alive and were admitted for treatment. One lady doctor who examined the dead woman fainted when she discovered a metallic torch in the vagina of the officer.

   Anita Dewan died. The injured driver was transferred to SSKM Hospital for treatment. He bore 43 wounds in his body caused by blunt, sharp and heavy weapons.[3] His penis was smashed by the attackers. On 4 June 1990, at 5-40 am in the morning, he died. The autopsy of his body was carried out by Dr. Biswanath Kahali, a Medical Officer on Training Reserve of the Health Department.[4]

    Prasanta Sur, the then Health Minister of West Bengal, defended the mob by contending that the victims might have been mistaken as child-abductors. But there is controversy regarding actual cause of the incident. The then Chief Minister Mr. Jyoti Basu also commented on a casual mode which has strongly been criticised by the media all over India.[4][5]

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_Bantala_rape_case

4-  Then came the incident of Suchapur murder where 11 Muslim agricultural workers were killed in a gruesome manner because they demanded minimum wage rates fixed by the government from the CPI-M jotedars (landlords).This was also reported by Mainstream.
 https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article2234.html

5- On 7 May 2008 the Times of India reported that a CPI(M) workers’ mob assaulted and stripped a 28-year old woman Nandigram as she refused to join the party. The doctor attending her at Nandigram Hospital confirmed there was sexual assault.
 
6- On 2 March 2002 the Times of India reported that CPI(M) workers hacked to death 2 BJP members who had switched to the BJP from the CPI(M) in Kerala.
 
7- One of India’s most wanted terrorist Yasin Bhatkal was actually arrested by the West Bengal Police in 2008 but due to poor prosecution from the CPI(M) he got bail and went scot-free. Such is CPI(M)’s pro-terrorist policy.
 
8- In November 2010 as many as 44 cadres of the CPI(M) including party office bearers were convicted for the brutal killings of 11 landless farmers by the CPI(M) workers in July 2000.
 
9- The CPI(M) leader of Kerala M M Mani openly bragged in a public meeting as to how the CPI(M) brutally killed its political opponents in Kerala. The murders of top popular BJP leaders Master Jayakrishnan (which we have seen earlier) and P Chandran (killed in 1996) may have been like this, as we have seen most of the culprits go scot-free with only 1 convicted by the SC and he too was released by the government of Left in Kerala soon. The BJP demanded re-probe in these 2 brutal murders by CPI(M) in light on Mani’s boasts.

10- M M Mani openly boasted in public that the CPI(M) eliminates opponents in Kerala.

As for the CPI(M)s hypocrisy, it removed Mani from his position after this in June 2012.  

But then brought him back again on the same post later on 25 October 2013!

In late 2016, this man was made a Minister in the Left Front Government of Kerala!

 11- On 30 November 2010 an RSS worker was killed again by CPM cadres.
 
12- On 27 April 2009 an RSS man was stabbed to death near Kannur by CPI(M) cadres.
 
13- On 28 May 2010 in Kannur district 2 RSS men were killed in Kerala again by CPI(M) cadres.
 
14-  On 1 December 2013 in Kannur district a BJP worker was today hacked to death and two others were injured by CPI(M) workers.
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-bjp-worker-hacked-to-death-hartal-tomorrow-in-kannur-kerala-1927939

15- CPI(M) Politburo member and his party’s face in Bengal former CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee admitted to the “grave wrongs committed by some of our party men” i.e. CPI(M) in areas like Netai by eliminating their political opponents. Nine people were killed on January 7, 2011 when alleged CPI(M) mercenaries attacked villagers at Netai a small village in West Midnapore district. While several of the attackers were arrested some others were still at large.

  The former Chief Minister addressing a rally at Midnapore on 2 Feb 2014 said the January 2011 mass killing at Netai was a “grave wrong committed by some of our partymen, many of whom had since fled the area” condemning criminalisation of politics.

 http://www.dailypioneer.com/nation/buddha-owns-up-to-netai-killing-in-anti-tmc-rap.html

16- The investigation in the murder of rebel CPM leader T P Chandrashekharan, which caused great embarassment to the CPM and for which CPM leaders were convicted, led to more alarming disclosures.  Accused in Chandrashekharan's murder T.K. Rajeesh, 32, could be nabbed only after his girlfriend Rubina, who worked at a Kolkata bar, gave his mobile number to a visiting Mumbai police team that traced the twenty-something girl with Kolkata police’s help, sources said.

Rajeesh has allegedly confessed to being part of the seven-member team that murdered Chandrasekharan and said the killers had been acting at the behest of some Kerala CPM leaders.The police said he had also admitted to a direct role in the murder of four BJP-RSS activists in the past, including the daylight assassination of K.T. Jayakrishnan, state vice-president of BJP youth wing Yuva Morcha. It is not clear whether he has implicated the CPM in these murders too.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120610/jsp/nation/story_15592011.jsp 

17- The trial court convicted 12 CPM members, including 3 top leaders, for the murder of CPM rebel leader T P Chandrashekaran.
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/chandrasekharan-murder-12-cpm-men-found-guilty/1/339095.html 

18- An accused in the murder of BJYM State Vice President Master Jayakrishnan died in August 2003. His name was Karayi Sanveejan. The mother of Karayi Sajeevan, named as seventh accused in the case pertaining to the brutal murder of Yuva Morcha’s Kerala vice-president KT Jayakrishnan in Kannur in 1999, has alleged that the CPI(M) was behind her son’s death. 

   Sajeevan was found dead on the night of August 11, 2003 just 15 days before a court in Thalassery sentenced five of the accused to death. “He had told me he was going to tell the court the whole truth but he had not divulged it to us. That he might spill the beans could have scared the CPI(M) and this could have led to his death,” his mother Kamala said.

http://archive.dailypioneer.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=79217:cpm-behind-death-of-morcha-mans-murder-accused-family&catid=304:kochi&Itemid=580 

19- Former CPM MP AP Abdullakutty alleged that the then Kerala CPM state secretary and now Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had asked the party leaders to follow the "Bengal line" of killing political enemies without shedding a drop of blood. He alleged that Vijayan explained that this "model" involved kidnapping and burying alive political enemies with a sack of salt on them in deep ditches.

   Abdullakutty writes that Vijayan said this in a party meeting held at Azhikodan memorial party office in Kannur on March 5, 2008 ahead of a peace meeting convened by the district collector following violence in Kannur. Kutty says the meeting was attended by CPM MPs P. Karunakaran, P. Sathidevi and CPI(M) MLAs from Kannur other than him.

   He further goes on to say that the discussion on eliminating enemies came up when Sathidevi complained to Vijayan that they were worried about BJP's protest in Parliament showing pictures of barbarous killings by CPM in Kannur. "Pinarayi Vijayan said that if we adopt the Bengal model there won't be any trace of the murder," writes Abdullakutty.

   "I was shocked to hear such a comment from the state secretary. Later, when we were at Parliament, I enquired about this to West Bengal MP Anil Basu. Basu told me that what Pinarayi told was right. He said that Kerala line of killing is barbaric and in Bengal they don't even shed a drop of blood and bury the enemies alive. He said that the outside world won't even see a piece of bone," says Abdullakutty.  He says that he met Anil Basu along with P. Suresh Kurup, then CPM MP and present MLA of Ettumanoor.

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/kerala-cpm-secretary-bengal-model-kerala/1/340753.html 

20- CPM leader Comrade Biman Basu was caught on camera asking CPM cadres to attack Election Commission people in protest against a decision which CPM did not like.Left Front chairman Biman Basu called upon the party cadres to 'attack' the Central observers and 'teach' them a lesson for 'siding with the Trinamool Congress and the BJP in the campaigning against the CPI(M).' Basu, who was also a member of the CPI(M) Politburo, in a public statement on 8 May 2004 incited the party workers and supporters against some Central observers. Some Central observers alleged to the CEC that their lives were in danger following threat by some CPI(M) workers who were opposing them to act impartially for ensuring a free and fair poll in West Bengal.They wanted adequate protection during their stay in the state so that they could work freely and independently. These observers also registered a formal complaint with the state Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Mr Basudev Bandopadhyya, in this connection.

Reacting to Mr Basu’s threat to the Central observers, the TMC leader, Ms Mamata Banerjee, demanded that Mr Basu would be arrested forthwith for intimidating the Central election observers.
The BJP president, Mr Tathagata Roy, alleged that Mr Basu had gone out of the way in inciting the party cadres against the observers since they were now finding it difficult to rig the poll in their traditional methods. Mr Roy demanded police action against Mr Basu. The Congress also criticised the front chairman’s public statement against the Central observers.
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20040510/nation.htm#11 

21- Seven (7) CPI(M) workers were found guilty by the trial court in Kerala on 2 March 2016 for the murder of a RSS official in April 2007. Mavelikkara additional sessions court III awarded life term to seven CPM men and fined Rs 30,000 each for murdering 38-year old RSS Charumood Karyavahak G Chandran.

   The special prosecutor Prathap G Padickal said that seven men - Omanakuttan, 45, Robin,30, Roshan, 32, Pradheep, 30, Preaveen, 30, Sunil, 35, and Kunjumon, 65 - were found guilty on Tuesday by the judge Johnson John. Apart from the life term, the court fined Rs 30,000 each convict that should be donated to the victim's family member's welfare. If convicts fail to pay it, they have to serve additional one year jail.

  The accused were found guilty under section 302 (murder) of IPC and the Arms Act. According to special prosecutor, the incident relating to the case happened in April 20, 2007 at a quarry in Vettiyar at 11.30 pm. Chandran was visiting RSS activists' houses attacked by CPM activists. However, then CPM workers came there as group and attacked Chandran. Following this, Chandran ran away from the spot. But he was brutally killed when he reached in the quarry. The motive behind the murder was then existing political atmosphere in the area. There were 21 wounds on the body of Chandran, who was hacked with country sword and beaten with iron rode and oars.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/RSS-activist-murder-Life-term-for-seven-CPM-men/articleshow/51226067.cms 


  22- In a Facebook post, the son of Kerala CPM leader P Jayarajan described the killing of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) worker K Manoj as 'good news'. Jain, the son of CPM's P Jayarajan, posted in Malayalam, "I have been waiting to hear this good news for a long time. Salutations, dear comrades.  Feeling excited." In more posts, Jain justified his comments, saying his father had been attacked 14 years ago by a group of men including Manoj. His father P Jayarajan is the prime accused in the case of the killing of Manoj.

   "A person who wrote a Facebook post on a murder should be booked. It shows that he could have a role in the murder plan. It is abominable to congratulate killers," state BJP president V Muraleedharan has been quoted as saying.

   Manoj was hacked to death on Monday in Kannur district. Bombs were thrown at his van before a group of people attacked him with swords, the police said. A murder case has been registered against eight people, all allegedly affiliated to the CPM, the police said. The killing took place as BJP President Amit Shah visited Kerala.

http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/on-facebook-politicians-son-calls-kerala-rss-activists-killing-good-news-658679 

  23- In Feb 2016, CPM workers killed a RSS worker Sujit by hacking him to death in front of his aged parents in Kannur district.  Police said 10 CPI-M sympathisers had been taken into custody and they were being questioned. Sujit succumbed to the injuries before reaching hospital late in the night. His aged parents and a brother tried to stop the assailants, who stormed into their house at Papinesseri around 11.30 PM, and suffered injuries in the process. They were also hospitalised. The CPM to add insult to injury said that 'it was the fallout of a local incident relating to insulting a girl' thus insulting the dead worker, who was killed by CPM workers in an act of killing of political opponents by the CPM.
 http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/kerala-rss-worker-hacked-to-death-in-front-of-parents/

The cases of CPI(M) killing RSS and BJP men in Kerala are so many that an entire encyclopedia can be written on that. Just a few cases are being given.

24- Much before they came to power heading the Left Front Government in 1977 in West Bengal, the CPI-M leaders started experimenting with murder as a political instrument. Way back in 1970 CPI-M cadres murdered two important Congress leaders belonging to the Sain family of Burdwan. The level of bestiality that they stooped down to was evident by the fact that they made the mother of the two Sain brothers eat rice drenched with the blood of her dead sons. The shock made the mother lose her mental balance and state from which she never recovered till her death a decade later. According to Anirban Ganguly, those communist cadres who perpetrated this violence went on to become ministers and MPs under the Left-Front government and were never brought to book.
https://swarajyamag.com/politics/communist-violence-in-west-bengal

25- On Saraswati Puja Day in Janauary 1979, the Jyoti Basu-led Left front Government fired, starved, shot and killed Bengali Hindu refugees from Bangladesh, who had trooped into the state and had taken shelter in the Sunderban area. These refugees, largely Dalits who had escaped persecution in Bangladesh and sought shelter in India, were about 60,000 in number and “were taken in by the Left Front’s poll promises and had come over from the rehabilitation centre provided by the Centre in Dandakaranya (Odisha)” to Marichjhanpi in Suderban. Tear gas, blockade, firing, burning of camps were the methods used by CPI-M cadres and state police under Left front to disperse the refugees.

   Many, while trying to escape, fell in the sea to be eaten by crocodiles; many bodies were dumped in the sea as well. Children – 8 years old, 12 years old, women and their babies, men and women in their seventies and eighties were killed in the firing. Till date, the exact number of deaths has not been known.” How many refugees died in police firing and how died when their boats sank while tried to escape will never be known. The refugees were hunted down just because a CPI-M government, led by proletarian leaders decided that they must be ousted.

26- An ex-student of JNU was arrested in August 2013 for Naxal links. An entire University should not be blamed for the deeds of one man, but this is the sort of ideological indoctrination that is got at JNU. Pro-Maoist, pro-Naxalite.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Ex-JNU-student-held-for-alleged-Naxal-links/articleshow/22037114.cms


Corruption, dishonesty

1-CPI(M) leader Sarla Maheswari and her husband Arun allegedly purchased 300 acres of land in just five years in driver Santosh Mahato's name. This was reported by TV Today group on 12 February 2011.
Her husband and son-in-law were arrested on 11 June 2012.

2- Kerala CPI(M) State Secretary, the most powerful position in the organisation of the CPI(M) (that too in one of the only 2 major states where it has presence along with West Bengal) has had serious corruption charges against him. The CPI(M)’s own Chief Minister Achyutanandan had refused to close cases against him but the whole party CPI(M) backed its tainted Secretary. In August 2013 the CBI claimed to have evidence against Vijayan.
 
3- A socialist publication itself carried an article titled: “Communist yet corrupt, murderer yet Marxist” in its issue of November/December 2012 gives examples of Left leaders involved in murders and corruption and murders.
 
4- On 22 May 2012 The Economic Times reported that like in Kerala, the CPI(M) has corrupt leaders in West Bengal too and not just that, it is unable to handle them. The article gives many such instances. The case of former CPI(M) MP from Arambagh in Hooghly Anil Bose is most interesting. The CPI(M) state leadership had suspended him for three months for his alleged involvement in some cases of financial corruption. He was suspended in April 2012 and was still under the penal measure. One of Bose's close associate, Asit Patra, former Hooghly zilla sabhadhipati, was arrested recently following his reported involvement in a medicine scam. Bose was suspended after the police arrested his close aide, Patra. But Bose had taken part in a rally organised by the CPIM at Chinsurah in the same Hooghly district on 22 May 2012 . This is something unprecedented. As per CPIM's constitution, no leader who is facing party's disciplinary measures, can take part in any party programme. But Bose had dared to join the CPIM-sponsored rally in Hooghly district on 22 May 2012. Party sources said that the state leadership has no immediate plan to interrogate Bose for attending the party rally. A few days after the CPIM state leadership suspended Bose, his wife Sabita held a press conference and had threatened to sue the CPIM state secretary Biman Bose for the suspension of her husband. "Biman Bose is responsible for the suspension of my husband. By involving my husband in corruption charges, Bose had practically defamed us publicly and I have decided to sue Biman Bose," Sabita had told reporters.
 
5- None other than the then CPI(M) Chief Minister of West Bengal Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee admitted on 24 February 2011 that “Corruption has affected the rank and file of the CPI(M)”. “We are living in a society which is basically corrupt” and it had influenced “our leaders and our boys” too, he said adding, however, Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress was not the change Bengal needed as they “do not have any programme or policy“. “Some (CPI-M) leaders are behaving like local kings. They don’t go to the people, they just dictate. We are sorting out these problems. We have identified a good number of leaders, we have warned them, we have punished them,” he told ‘Malayala Manorama’ newspaper in an exclusive interview.
 
6- None other than the CPI(ML) i.e. Marxist-Leninist on its official website exposed the corruption in Kerala CPI(M) comprehensively in an article titled: “Corruption in Kerala CPI(M) – Is it an Aberration?”. It gives example of funds for CPI(M) Kerala newspaper Deshabhimani and some other deals.
 
7- In July 2013 The Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau court in Trivendrum ordered a probe into corruption by not ordrinary, but top level CPI(M) leaders in Kerala for spending millions of rupees at the cost of the exchequers. The defendants in the case are former chief minister V S Achuthanandan, the leader of opposition in the Assembly, former home minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, the deputy floor leader, former law minister M Vijayakumar, state unit secretary Pinarayi Vijayan and controversial middleman T G Nandakumar, who is close to Achuthanandan.They are accused of spending around Rs38mn for hiring top criminal lawyers from the Supreme Court to fight personal interest cases instead of using the services of some 70 lawyers who are on the government’s payroll.
 
8- In November 2010 the CPI(M) announced that it would expel corrupt members from the party. How many? As many as 10,000. Whether the announcement was carried out or not is another issue but the fact of 10,000  members being expelled for corruption shows that there were 10,000 corrupt members identified in the first place. And this was in Nov 2010, after which Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said in Feb 2011 that corruption has affected the rank and file of the CPI(M).
 
9- On 3 July 2008 the Enquiry Commissioner and Special Judge (Vigilance) S Jagadeesh on Wednesday asked the state vigilance and anti-corruption bureau to initiate fresh investigations into the scams involving party mouthpiece Deshabhimani. Jagadeesh asked the vigilance police to re-open the Rs 2-crore bribery case that involved Deshabhimani general manager and CPM central committee member E P Jayarajan and another corruption case against its deputy general manager P Venugopal. While, Jayarajan (CPM Central Committee member) allegedly accepted a Rs 2 crore bribe from lottery king Santiago Martin, wanted in Kerala for evading tax worth several crores, Venugopal had taken Rs 1-crore from LiS, a fraudulent money chain in Kerala.

The CPM initially claimed the money from Martin was taken as a bond, but contradicted its own statement saying the amount was an advance for advertisement costs. The U-turn came after the party consulted legal experts and realised that Deshabhimani could not have legally floated bonds. The party thus was also fully involved in a cover-up attempt.
 
10- On 16 Agugust 2004 the then CPI(M) MP and former Asian Games gold medalist (in the 1998 Bangkok Asian Games) Jyotirmoyee Sikdar’s husband was arrested on charges of involvement in a sex racket.
 
11- The CPI(M) is plagued by horrible indiscipline, infighting and rebellions in both Kerala and West Bengal. So much for the ‘discipline’ and ‘honesty’, the CPI(M) has as much infighting as the Congress or any other party in the country, if not more.

12-  The personal ambition, lust for power, fighting own partymen for personal gain in rampant in CPM not only at state level, but even at national level for the all-powerful post of CPM General Secretary. The Communists who claim 'ethics' and to be fighting for the people and not 'personal gain' have far far more infighting than parties like the BJP. In December 2013, war intensified in the Kerala CPI(M) over who the successor to Pinarayi Vijayan should be after he steps down as State party secretary. If indications provided by party sources are to be believed, the power struggle is so intense that it has begun to threaten the unity of the neo-liberalist group that Pinarayi leads within the organisation.

The war for the post of party secretary is said to be between Politburo member Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, also Deputy Opposition Leader in State Assembly, and Central committee member EP Jayarajan, who is also general manager of party organ Deshabhimani daily which is presently trapped in a controversy over the appearance in it of an ad placed by a ‘tainted’ businessman.The power struggle is based on the presumption that Pinarayi will step down as party secretary at the State conference to be held in early 2015 before the 21st party congress in March-April that year or when he may be declared the party-led LDF’s chief ministerial candidate even before that if the present Congress-led UDF Government falls after the Lok Sabha polls.

“In fact, two separate power struggles are taking place in the CPI(M) though the other war, happening in the national level for the post of general secretary is yet to become news in the media,” said a senior party leader who had got disgraced by the leadership following the faction battle. “In Kerala, such things cannot be kept hidden for long,” he said.
http://www.dailypioneer.com/nation/power-struggle-intensifies-in-kerala-cpm.html 

13- As early as January 1999, when even the BJP was still close to being as pure as it was before tasting power, the CPI(M) Politbureau was aware of corruption in the CPI(M) in MLAs, MPs. There are given huge details of corruption in the CPI(M). Some of it given by Rediff.com on 9 January 1999 was:  

  “Not only CPI-M ministers, MPs and legislators but even wholetime party workers, who receive a meagre wage, are leading lifestyles inconsistent with their income. The party leadership cannot explain how wholetime workers have purchased flats, use mobile telephones and go on vacations to expensive tourist resorts even twice a year. During the state conferences last year many leaders, while filling out the requisite forms, not only suppressed their actual income but also kept it a secret while paying levy to the party which is mandatory for all CPI-M members.
As such, for party members who are employed, it has been made compulsory to deposit their payslips to the respective party units in order to ensure proper collection. The party leadership has also noticed that many leaders, in order to cover up their "illegal income", were attributing it to their spouses or showing property in their name as a "gift from their in-laws".
This malaise has been evident even in states where the party has never been in power. The issue over how a senior CPI-M leader in Bihar had amassed large tracts of land, led to a heated debate within the party's central committee.”
 
14- The CPI(M)s own Draft Political Organisational Report for its 20th Congress on 17 to 19 March 2012 reported: “Sexual harassment,corruption increases within the party”. The report establishes and affirms the allegations raised against it in the past few years. The party has noted the existence of unhealthy trends such as factionalism, careerism, individualism and absence of collective functioning which are harmful for the party. They have noted an increasing trend of leakage of inner party discussions even in the case of leading committees to the bourgeois media. They have also noted that bureaucratic behavior and intolerance to criticism is weakening inner party democracy in the party.  ‘Certain leaders take decisions on cadres not on the basis of collective assessment of cadres but on the basis of their likes and dislikes,’ the report revealed. As per their analysis liberal tendencies which are opposed to democratic centralism is present in the case of many committees and cadres. Party members are understood to have been hesitant in expressing their views in committees. As per the report slackness and violation of discipline was being tolerated by the party at different levels.

http://english.doolnews.com/sexual-harassmentcorruption-increases-within-the-party-cpim-political-organizational-report-12836.html

This was also reported by the CPI-ML on its website.

15- In June 2009 The Indian Express carried an article by a writer worth reading which revealed the author’s views on why no one dares to mention the cases against Pinnayari Vijayan- the powerful CPI(M) State Secretary of Kerala.
 
16- In August 2013 again Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee admitted that there were ‘unwanted and corrupt elements’ in the CPI(M). He warned that those who had joined the party for monetary and material gains should leave it as such elements were sullying the party’s image.

17- And just in October 2013, a CPI(M) leader from Tripura was caught with 20 lakh rupees on camera. He was also saying "Other leaders in the party make money but claim honesty. I am not a hypocrite like them".  

18- On 4 June 2011, 8 local CPI(M) leaders in West Bengal were paraded, and thrashed by local villagers for alleged corruption. The villagers had demanded an explanation on how Rs six lakh in development funds was spent about a fortnight ago and the CPI(M) leaders had said that an explanation would be given today, he said.
http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=724063

19-  In November 2013 the CPI(M) organized a 3 day plenum in Kerala. The main objective of the plenum was to 'strengthen the party by ending weaknesses like corruption, affinity to liquor and mafia connections among its members and leaders.' The three-day plenum started with general secretary Prakash Karat, who inaugurated it, exhorting party men to be humble before the people and the organisational report presented to the meet admitting that decadence was present in the party at all levels.  "We have to be humble before the people,” CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat said in his inaugural speech. Rectification was nothing new for the party but it was a continuing process, he said.
 http://www.dailypioneer.com/nation/kerala-cpm-plenum-vows-self-purification.html

   Naturally, the need for rectification arises when things are bad. This was a clear admittance that there was affinity to liquor and mafia connections and corruption among CPM members and leaders.

20- In March 2002 during the Ayodhya movement for Ram temple construction at the undisputed site, the CPI(M)'s junior wing, the Students' Federation of India, faxed an invitation to the press conference of self-styled Puri Shankaracharya Adhokshajananda in Delhi from its office. The man made news two years ago when he staked his claim to the Puri peeth but was branded an impostor by the Orissa Police. It was found that he is not the Shankaracharya but an imposter, no one recognized him except himself- he claimed to be the Shankaracharya. Inviting such fraud imposters was the job done by CPI(M) Junior wing.
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/shankaracharya-of-puri-hold-talks-with-muslim-leaders-sfi-cpim-junior-wing-do-pr-work/1/220241.html

   This would be enough to know the dangers to the nation from the Left. 

2 comments:

  1. Millions thanks to Rakesh Chaudhary Ji. You are doing a great service to TRUTH and BHARAT MATA

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  2. M.M.Mani is minister in kerala and not west bengal.

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