Monitoring Indian Communists - 2

**acharya** · (This post was last modified: 05-10-2006, 02:04 AM by acharya.)

Outlook Article

Maybe this is the "south asian" version of the "color revolutions" in Central Asia. The American flip-flopping on Nepal, especially with all the pains it takes to be *dissociated* from the maoists in public -- fighting the fire while fueling the flames, the SAME tactic that the US uses with the jihadi islamists.

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From the beginning, the Maoists have been closely associated with the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM) with its headquarters in Chicago, USA. On February 1, 1998 the RIM Committee wrote: "The participation of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) in the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement, the concern and assistance given by your Party to the advance of the Communist movement in the South Asia region and throughout the world, even at difficult moments in your struggle, inspire us.
The Committee of RIM and the CPN (M) will continue to march forward as in the past -- united by our all-powerful ideology." In 2001 Prachanda responded: "The present rapid pace of development would have been inconceivable without the support of Communist revolutionaries, particularly the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement, during the period of the historic initiation of the People's War."

The Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) is the US political arm of the apex international body, RIM. Mr Robert Avakian heads both RCP and RIM. Other fraternal members of RIM, apart from Nepalâs Maoists, include Peruâs extremist party Shining Path. RIM is strongly opposed to Chinaâs economic reforms initiated by Deng Xiaoping. Its leaders endorse Chinaâs Cultural Revolution. To evade arrest after a White House demonstration against Deng Xiaoping in 1981, Mr Avakian and other RCP leaders fled the US to live in France. While Mr Avakian directs affairs from France, RCP is led by Mr Clark Kissinger in the US. The RCP spokesperson is a former convict, Mr Carl Dix, who firmly believes in world revolution through violence.

The puzzling fact is that the US State Department has designated Nepalâs Maoists as a terrorist group. Despite this, RCPâs Avakian supports the Maoists. He condemns the US for describing Nepalâs CPN (M) as a terrorist group. And yet, both RIM and RCP continue to function in the US. How?


How much is indian maoists, naxalites connected to their US headquarters.
Why did they increase their activities after 2000 when NDA/BJP come to power. Is there a connection here.

gangajal · 05-10-2006, 02:09 AM

QUOTE(ben_ami @ May 10 2006, 12:45 AM)<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(gangajal @ May 9 2006, 11:51 PM) The change in West Bengal is unbelievable.
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like what??

can we have examples to prove thats its indeed unbelievable?
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Yes, you can have an example. Look at the IT scene. CPIM was opposed to IT till 2000. They have changed their attitude towards IT. IT has grown at 72 % rate since 2001. IT has been declared an essential services sector. Last year CITU tried to organize a strike in the IT sector. Buddhadev Bhattacharya told the IT sector that they should just contact the police and he will get the CITU activists arrested. This attitude would have been unthinkable 5 years ago. A CPIM CM, asking for arrest of CPIM cadre, was unthinkable even a few years ago.

**acharya** · (This post was last modified: 05-10-2006, 02:13 AM by acharya.)

The American Connection?

Analysts tend to conclude easily that Nepal's Maoists were and are controlled by China. The truth may not be that simple, but instead of speculating about the foreign hand, India would do well to define, and focus on, its own interests.
RAJINDER PURI

The Maoists hold the key to Nepalâs future stability. If other govt give it support overtly and covertly. This is a psy ops article trying to change the opinion of the Indian people by the Indian leftists. Indian leftists have been supporting the maoists/naxalites in INDIA and NEPAL for along time Their declared goal does not differ from that of the Seven Party Alliance (SPA). They simply do not trust the King. They are dragging their feet until elections to a new constituent assembly actually occur. Comrades Prachanda and Bhattarai, Chairman and Convener respectively of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), stressed that their agitation would remain peaceful. They announced a three-month ceasefire. The SPA has indicated that the interim government will speedily elect a constituent assembly to make the new Constitution. The main problem would be to persuade the Maoists to give up arms. The Royal Nepal Army has already indicated its readiness to recruit Maoists in the army. If Prime Minister GP Koirala with his known tact succeeds in persuading the Maoists to enter the democratic mainstream they would become a major, if not dominant, factor in Nepalâs politics. If that happened, what would be the result for India?

In the mid-1990s, the Maoists formed their own group to separate from other communists who participated in elections. The Maoists committed themselves to revolutionary change through armed struggle. The organizational structure and nomenclatures they adopted were inspired by the Chinese model. They established their own Peoplesâ Liberation Army (PLA) with its own Central Military Commission (CMC). Analysts tended to conclude easily therefore that Nepalâs Maoists were and are controlled by China. The truth may not be that simple.

Interviewed by Charles Haviland for BBC World on 13 February this year, Comrade Prachanda was asked: "Fighting a war is very expensive. If your supporters are mainly in poor rural parts of Nepal, where are you getting your money from?"

He replied: "We are certainly fighting for the rights of poor people in Nepal. We are the children of Nepali citizens. The main source of our income is the same people we are fighting for. As a secondary source, we used to extract from our enemies; but now, our main source is the support from the peopleâ¦. It's been well established that no government anywhere has financially supported our revolution... We are free to make decisions." No government, perhaps. But what about others?

The Maoists have 40,000 armed activists. Comrade Prachanda may well be speaking the truth. But if he were getting arms and money from outside powers, would he admit it? He could be right, though, about his power to take independent decisions. Regardless of outside support, any group engaged in armed struggle enjoys far greater freedom of action than its counterparts engaged in traditional politics. All politics today, including revolutionaries and NGOs, has become corporate activity. It matters little if money comes from governments, agencies or business houses. What matters is the agenda that is followed. The tendency to hide sources of funding arises from coyness associated with conventional morality. In a decade or so such coyness might disappear. Internet and the InfoTech age could introduce a kind of transparency that renders secrecy impossible.

From the beginning, the Maoists have been closely associated with the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM) with its headquarters in Chicago, USA. On February 1, 1998 the RIM Committee wrote: "The participation of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) in the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement, the concern and assistance given by your Party to the advance of the Communist movement in the South Asia region and throughout the world, even at difficult moments in your struggle, inspire us.
The Committee of RIM and the CPN (M) will continue to march forward as in the past -- united by our all-powerful ideology." In 2001 Prachanda responded: "The present rapid pace of development would have been inconceivable without the support of Communist revolutionaries, particularly the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement, during the period of the historic initiation of the People's War."

The Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) is the US political arm of the apex international body, RIM. Mr Robert Avakian heads both RCP and RIM. Other fraternal members of RIM, apart from Nepalâs Maoists, include Peruâs extremist party Shining Path. RIM is strongly opposed to Chinaâs economic reforms initiated by Deng Xiaoping. Its leaders endorse Chinaâs Cultural Revolution. To evade arrest after a White House demonstration against Deng Xiaoping in 1981, Mr Avakian and other RCP leaders fled the US to live in France. While Mr Avakian directs affairs from France, RCP is led by Mr Clark Kissinger in the US. The RCP spokesperson is a former convict, Mr Carl Dix, who firmly believes in world revolution through violence.

The puzzling fact is that the US State Department has designated Nepalâs Maoists as a terrorist group. Despite this, RCPâs Avakian supports the Maoists. He condemns the US for describing Nepalâs CPN (M) as a terrorist group. And yet, both RIM and RCP continue to function in the US. How? After 9/11 the Bush administrationâs security measures have been extreme enough to provoke allegations of even converting America into a police state!

It would therefore be reckless to identify which foreign inspiration, if any, guides the Maoists. Why is it reckless If there is indeed covert US support for the Maoists it may or may not be in cooperation with elements within China. The economic advantages accruing to Chinaâs Peoplesâ Liberation Army (PLA) for decades through commerce with the US were not unnoticed. It could be still a joint plan of US and China. 

In 1996 reputed columnist Abe Rosenthal wrote in New York Times: "Wake up America! Wake up to the truth that the Republican leaders are partners with the Democratic leaders in building up the Chinese armed forces." In 1997 he wrote: "The great part of US business in China is with companies and cartels controlled by the Chinese military."

Instead of speculating about the foreign links of Maoists, India would do well to focus therefore on its own interests in Nepal. Nepal and India have the closest of historical and cultural links. Nepalâs Maoists have interaction with Indiaâs Maoists. They could influence their Indian comrades to enter the electoral mainstream. India and Nepal have enormous economic potential to explore. With Indian funding and technology, the two can utilize all the estimated energy of potentially 50,000 megawatts still available and untapped in Nepal. That would spectacularly transform the economies of both Nepal and Indiaâs heartland. If the Maoists remain difficult, India can shut the door and let Nepal fend for itself.

The Maoists want both China and India to have close relations with Nepal. That would be welcome only if China granted autonomy to Tibet and opened it to India. Indiaâs foreign policy should be dictated by two simple axioms. First, it must welcome democracy everywhere. Secondly, it must insist on reciprocity in all international relationships.

Rajinder Puri can be reached at rajinderpuri2000@yahoo.com

gangajal · 05-10-2006, 02:13 AM

QUOTE(Mudy @ May 10 2006, 12:54 AM)gangajal,
They are openly supporting or better call they are Maoist in India. Objective of revolution is still on. Commies of WB are not only supporting Indian Maoist but Nepal, Burma and others.
Now they are running Central Government of India, twisting puppet appointed spineless PM of India. They are changing Indian Foreign policy without any regards to India's priority or security.
People of WB are not ready to depart from its religious root. Commies of WB failed to stop Durga Puja. They know once they attack local religious sentiment they will be history. Commies had tried couple of experiments to stay in power.Â Promoting Teresa or ridiculing Hindu sects or promoting illegal Bangladesh did helped them till now.
Problem they are facing now is they tried to show some dreams to people which in not achievable. Russia is a good example. Now they are trying to ape China, but China did major cultural destruction. We donât know whether current China will keep its rural citizens happy with growing numbers of rich population in limited urban area.Â

WB commies still believe in revolution.
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You have to distinguish between Maoists and CPIM. Maoists are the extreme left of CPIM who are angry at what they see is the betrayal of CPIM. Moreover Maoists, at least in West Bengal, have some popular support only in tribal areas of Birbhum, west Medinipore etc where tribals live in unbelievable poverty. I would also like to point out that the Maoists are killing CPIM cadres in these areas and have told the tribals to vote for Trinomul Congress/BJP alliance.

**acharya** · 05-10-2006, 02:18 AM

QUOTE(gangajal @ May 9 2006, 08:39 AM)

Yes, you can have an example. Look at the IT scene. CPIM was opposed to IT till 2000. They have changed their attitude towards IT. IT has grown at 72 % rate since 2001.

IT has been declared an essential services sector. Last year CITU tried to organize a strike in the IT sector. Buddhadev Bhattacharya told the IT sector that they should just contact the police and he will get the CITU activists arrested. This attitude would have been unthinkable 5 years ago.Â A CPIM CM, asking for arrest of CPIM cadre, was unthinkable even a few years ago.



This is directly related to the IT becoming prominent among the middle class and IT people have become influencial in the policymaking in the center as well as states. The old ideas are no longer taken up by the middle class. The WB/CPI middle class and stars are losing influence in the national scene with IT taking the dominant mindshare among the middleclass.

The leftist/communist control the media and the mindshare of the middleclass in India.

05-10-2006, 02:21 AM

QUOTEHow much is indian maoists, naxalites connected to their US headquarters.
Why did they increase their activities after 2000 when NDA/BJP come to power. Is there a connection here
Yes, suddenly so many new leftist, anti-India NGO came into existence after India's nuclear test. Suddenly these anti-India NGOs had become rich. Megha Pathkarâs connection with Goldman foundation. AID and ASHA connection with other anti-India, environmentalist organization that are known to be connected with RIM..

gangajal · 05-10-2006, 02:39 AM

QUOTE(acharya @ May 10 2006, 02:18 AM)<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(gangajal @ May 9 2006, 08:39 AM)

Yes, you can have an example. Look at the IT scene. CPIM was opposed to IT till 2000. They have changed their attitude towards IT. IT has grown at 72 % rate since 2001.

IT has been declared an essential services sector. Last year CITU tried to organize a strike in the IT sector. Buddhadev Bhattacharya told the IT sector that they should just contact the police and he will get the CITU activists arrested. This attitude would have been unthinkable 5 years ago.Â A CPIM CM, asking for arrest of CPIM cadre, was unthinkable even a few years ago.



This is directly related to the IT becoming prominent among the middle class and IT people have become influencial in the policymaking in the center as well as states. The old ideas are no longer taken up by the middle class. The WB/CPI middle class and stars are losing influence in the national scene with IT taking the dominant mindshare among the middleclass.

The leftist/communist control the media and the mindshare of the middleclass in India.
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I have to disagree with you here. CPIM and in general Communists have traditionally thought of the middle class as parasitic. After all it is the middle class that opposes Communists. Kolkata has proved to be very difficult ground for CPIM electorally. One of the reasons for Communists to destroy west Bengal's educational and industrial infrastructure was to tame the middle class. Their goal was to make everyone to the status of landless labourer. So why have they changed?

The reason for the change of heart of CPIM is more complex than you think. They were coming under fierce criticism that they have ruined west bengal and their behaviour is even worse than the British colonialists. Of course the collapse of Communism in USSR and China also helped. Also West Bengal govt is tottering on the edge of bankruptcy. Remember that CPIM has to pay a monthly salary to 700,000 workers. CPIM is not helped by volunteers unlike Congress. All CPIM workers are paid by CPIM every month. They can field 2000 paid workers in every constituency unlike the non_communist parties. So where are they getting the money? It is clear that a part of the taxes raised by WB govt goes to pay the salaries of CPIM workers. How would they pay their workers if west bengal govt goes completely bankrupt? If you don't believe this, I would remind you that central auditors came to the conculsion that 2500 crore rupees supposedly paid to the panchayets were missing in 2000. We have still not heard anything about where that money went. Where do you think that money went? There are also other reasons.

I would suggest that you take a look at the archives of soc.culture.indian and soc.culture.bengali, in the period 1998 to 2001, where I and many others took part in debate with pro-CPIM guys. You will see that very detailed criticisms of CPIM were made. In fact detailed suggestions were offered on how to change things around. You would be surprised at the similarity of Buddhadev's talk and action and the suggestions made in those forums. I suspect that those debates were forwarded to CPIM leadership.

05-10-2006, 03:12 AM

QUOTEI would remind you that central auditors came to the conculsion that 2500 crore rupees supposedly paid to the panchayets were missing in 2000.
Why there is no investigation? It is a big amount.

gangajal · 05-10-2006, 03:44 AM

QUOTE(Mudy @ May 10 2006, 03:12 AM)<div class='quotetop'>QUOTEI would remind you that central auditors came to the conculsion that 2500 crore rupees supposedly paid to the panchayets were missing in 2000.
Why there is no investigation? It is a big amount.
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I do not know. This money was given to the panchayets over many years on their own recognizance.
There was no check on how the money was spent or what happened to it. The simplest explanation would be that it paid the salaries of 700,000 CPIM workers over 2 decades. CPIM had 30,000 workers in 1970. It had ballooned 25 times in the last 36 years. Some one has to pay this huge number of workers. Just for comparison west bengal govt has 1,100,000 workers on its pay roll. So you can see that CPIM is a state within a state. If they loose power then a large fraction of their establishment would also collapse. Where would they get the collosal amount of money to run such a gigantic establsihment? So it seems to me that such financial pressures must have played a role in their decision to junk communism and adapt capitalism.

gangajal · 05-10-2006, 04:04 AM

I had already said that while west bengal govt has 1,100,000 employees,
CPIM has 700,000 employees.
We must not also forget that west bengal police and state employees largely work for CPIM. Every police transfer has to be approved by the local CPIM boss. For example, suppose you are a policeman in Salt lake. The local CPIM party boss will keep a tab on you. If you are seen not to be supporting the party then he will advise his higher ups in the CPIM to transfer you to the Sundarbans or to west Medinipore. What that means is that the bribes that you will get in Salt Lake will not be available to you in those places. So what would you do? You will support the Govt activities. That is what the state employees do in West Bengal.

CPIM also has huge organizations among farmers and labourers to the tune of 4,000,000.
For comparison west bengal has a population of 80,000,000. Remember that these 4,000,000 people may have familes of 5 people. Thus CPIM already has 20,000,000 people within their organization. This is 25 % of the population of west bengal. So non-communist parties start with a huge handicap.

05-10-2006, 09:05 PM

Mudy
QUOTEBen,
Please list no of industries or job created by commies in any state.
List no of industries destroyed or moved to other states.

No of literate doen't matter, if you can't provide work.

Rajeev Srinivasan who I believe is from Kerala in his latest column:
QUOTEthe Kerala government is perilously close to bankruptcy (once or twice it had to issue IOUs instead of paying salaries), and in any case 70 per cent of its expenditure goes towards salaries, pensions and other non-productive obligations, leaving very little for new projects. It is also reducing the number of government employees, as it is hopelessly overstaffed. The future, it would appear, is in the booming private sector.


QUOTEThey are not uniting over the outright apartheid against Hindus in all walks of life, as captured in a single stunning statistic: 92 per cent of all those committing suicide in Kerala are Hindus. And Kerala has the highest suicide rate in India.

Bharatvarsh · 05-13-2006, 11:57 PM

QUOTEI am a communist compromising with capitalism: Buddha

New Delhi, May 13 (PTI) Fresh from the spectacular poll victory, CPI(M) posterboy of reforms Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today said the party cannot afford to stick to dogmas and he was a "communist compromising with capitalism" to develop West Bengal.

"I know what I am doing in West Bengal. What is the alternative? If we have to develop, we need capital," he told CNN-IBN news channel while making it clear that he remains a communist to the core.

"I am a Communist, compromising with capitalism," said the 62-year-old leader, who lead the party to a spectacular win to retain power for a record seventh consecutive term in the Left citadel.

Admitting that the party has made many mistakes in the 60s and 70s, the chief minister said he and his colleagues were fully committed to reforms.

"The old is changing. We are not fools, we are realists, We cannot stick to our dogmas," he was quoted as saying in a release by the television channel.

He said CPI(M) remains fully committed to communist principles and to maintaining its rural organisation. But he also said there is no alternative to encouraging private capital to come to West Bengal due to widespread joblessness and poverty.

In the changing global scenario, industrialisation and foreign investment were needed to generate jobs for millions of educated youth especially in manufacturing and knowledge-based industries.

To a question, he said "it is impossible to create socialism in one state of India alone. PTI

http://www.ptinews.com/pti/ptisite.nsf/&#0...525716D005B246D

05-14-2006, 11:31 AM

Post 146
QUOTEMoreover these Communists are against Christians (especially Syrian Christians), Nairs, Brahmins, Menons, Ezhavas, Adivasis, SCs, STs, and Moderate Muslims. They are against all peoples who worship God Almighty. (1) Typical Christian mentality. They list Christians (Syrian kind as a subset) and Muslims as groups and everyone else, who are all Hindu, only by community name.
The whole article posted in post 146 has not a single mention of Hindus. We don't exist apparently. As far as Christians are concerned there are no Hindus in Kerala or India, only Hindu fundamentalists and potential Christians to be converted in the future.

(2) This article shows perhaps shows their new position, still emerging. Their usual stance, as I've come across in reading material and comments at other Indian forums (including Sulekha) is how Christians in Kerala generally support the communist government. Whenever the topic is about how Hinduism is discriminated against in the political and religious arena in India, they say, look at Kerala, we have a non-religious, impartialcommunist government; that's what you need, not a nationalist (that they dub Hindu fundamentalist) government.
When the communist government supported only their minority rights and devalued and denigrated the rights of the majority, Christians happily claimed the Keralan govt to be impartial.

Now that the communist govt of Kerala is stepping on a few Christian toes (or perhaps it hasn't yet, but they expect it to), they've decided they don't want to take what they've been dishing out so far. I hope the Hindus there don't team up with the Christians of Kerala at all, but leave them to wallow in the misery they themselves had created (though they intended it for the Hindus).

Communists are the friends of Christians and Muslims and vice versa. Now Christians suddenly pretend they're not supposed to be friendly with communists, just cause the relationship isn't going where they wanted/expected it to anymore. What goes around comes around. They can't even take a little heat. They need to learn to deal with it, like the Hindus there had to.

Christians in Nepal at present are supportive of the Maoists too. No pretended introspection there. They need communism to overpower Hinduism and Buddhism there.

QUOTECommunists are a virusOh yeah. So are Christianity and Islam. Not only in India, Tibet, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand, but the world over. Funny how those infected by the viruses can identify each other as sick, but not themselves.

05-19-2006, 08:24 PM

QUOTEwww.ibnlive.com/news/comm...884-3.html
Communists will be wiped out: Ramdev 

I want to see that day "yesterday".

06-10-2006, 09:49 AM

Brinda brainwave: no to private, foreign universities; yes to exit tax for students going abroad QUOTENEW DELHI, JUNE 9:Want to go abroad for higher studies? You have to pay an âexit tax.â Want to hire a college graduate in India? Pay a âgraduate tax.â Allow foreign universities but subject them to stringent controls. Bring about a new law to regulate the private sector in higher education. 

If you thought these recommendations of a Parliamentary standing committee, chaired by Congress MP Janardan Dwivedi, submitted last month make little sense at a time the Prime Minister has called for more private participation in education, read the lone two-page dissent note by member and CPM MP Brinda Karat.
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Please tax Brinda brain and every word comes out of her mouth.

06-14-2006, 06:36 AM

QUOTENBA blocks Maheshwar project

By Yoga Rangatia, in Indraprasth (aka New Delhi)
The Pioneer
http://www.dailypioneer.com
Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Yielding to pressure by the Narmada Bachao Andolan, the Union Environment Ministry has abruptly suspended works on the 400 MW Maheshwar hydel power project on the river Narmada, citing non-submission of rehabilitation plan. In doing so, it has turned a blind eye to the fact that rehabilitation is already progressing alongside construction.

While the Environment Ministry in its suspension order last week said no relief and rehabilitation plan has been submitted, the project developers said the plan was submitted to the ministry four years ago, only the data needed to be upgraded.

The project which was in limbo since 2001was restarted in November 2005. No construction or rehabilitation took place between 2001 and 2005.

"Of the Rs 70 crore spent on the project in the last few months, Rs 2.5 crore has gone towards rehabilitation. Construction and rehabilitation are proceeding alongside, as required by the law. We submitted a rehabilitation plan after a door-to-door survey four years ago. Between 2001 and 2005, the project itself was facing uncertainty. In the intermediary period the number of beneficiaries may have gone up. We are asking help from the State Government to upgrade the data," said ML Gupta, managing director of Shree Maheshwar Hydel Power Company Limited, the promoters of the project.

Acting in a high-handed manner, the Environment Ministry denied the public-private partnership company a fair hearing before suspending the work. "Nobody contacted us for our point of view. Only the NBA seems to have received the letter that the ministry wrote. It is unfair and unfortunate that the Environment Ministry did not hear us or issue a warning. This way no development can take place," Gupta said.

The Rs 2,400 crore project was accorded environmental clearance in 1994. As per the conditions of the clearance, rehabilitation of those displaced by the Maheshwar dam was to be completed by 1998. Responding to NBA allegation that there was no rehabilitation plan on the ground, the Environment Ministry toured the area in 2000. The task force concluded that land or plan for rehabilitation had been found wanting.

The same year, German multinational company Siemens withdrew its application for a Hermes export guarantee for the Maheshwar Project from the German government. Simultaneously, the private HypoVereinsbank of Germany stated that it will now no longer be in a position to honour its commitment to give a Rs 530 crore loan to the project.

The project was in suspended animation when the monitoring committee visited the area in 2002. Obviously, no rehabilitation was taking place when the project was uncertain. In November 2005, the project was given a fresh lease of life with the involvement of S Kumars and public sector Power Finance Corporation.

Questions are being raised whether the ministry may have over-stepped its limits by venturing out of the ambit of clearance related to environment. An eager Environment Ministry has taken upon itself to look into resettlement matter as well, which is strictly under the purview of the State Government. In the case of the Narmada Control Authority, overseeing the Sardar Sarovar Project, rehabilitation is dealt with by a sub-group on R&R under secretary, Social Justice to which the State Government submits its reports, while the role of Environment Ministry is limited to ecological issues related to the project.

Responding to the NBA notice in May 2006, the ministry has asked Madhya Pradesh Government to suspend work on the project. "The clearance letter had required the project authorities to submit a complete R&R plan with details of proposed housing units, agricultural lands identified / required / developed and implementation schedule to this ministry by December 2001. This plan is yet to be submitted. The monitoring committee constituted by this ministry also directed project authorities to prepare comprehensive R&R action plan before financial closure and starting construction," the letter said. The Centre has directed the Madhya Pradesh Government to suspend the ongoing work till a comprehensive rehabilitation plan is submitted, and is found "implementable" by the monitoring committee.

Madhya Pradesh has reacted with caution to the suspension notice. "We have not received the directive, yet. Work on the project will commence after completing all legal formalities. The construction work, if necessary, would be stopped forthwith," Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan told reporters in Bhopal.

**acharya** · 06-15-2006, 09:11 PM

4. Nepal's Maoists Order Schools to Stop Teaching Sanskrit
Source

KATHMANDU, NEPAL, April 14, 2005: Nepal's elite private schools said yesterday Maoist rebels have told them to shut down in 24 hours unless they cut fees and meet other demands, but the schools have vowed to defy the order. A group representing Nepal's private schools said the rebels demanded the institutions close on Thursday unless they lower admission and tuition costs, scrap singing of the national anthem, stop teaching Sanskrit and remove photographs of King Gyanendra. The demands are part of a drive by the Maoists to install their own "people's education" system in schools and coincides with the start of the new academic year in Nepal.

The Maoist warning is the latest challenge to the authority of King Gyanendra, who seized power February 1, saying the move was necessary to tackle the insurgency. "We've been receiving warnings from the students' union by letter, e-mails and phone to close from Thursday for failing to meet their demands," Umesh Shrestha, head of the Private and Boarding School Organisations-Nepal, said. "But we're not going to comply with the demand to shut." The outlawed All Nepal National Free Student Union-Revolutionary is the student wing of the Maoists who have been fighting since 1996 to set up a communist republic. The conflict has claimed more than 11,000 lives in the Hindu kingdom of 27 million.

The students' union also wants children of top government officials excluded from private schools and forced to go state schools. There was no immediate comment available from the students' union but last month it said that it would "retaliate" against private schools if they failed to heed its demands. It did not say how, but in the past, rebels have bombed private schools after students have gone home as well as wrecked classrooms and equipment. The rebel order to private schools to close came as Nepal began returning to normal after an 11-day nationwide road blockade called by the Maoists to protest the king's power grab. About 1.5 million students study in Nepal's 8,500 private and boarding schools. The 4.9 million students studying in Nepal's 25,000 public schools were not affected by the Maoists' demand to close.

06-15-2006, 09:48 PM

These commies have same agenda, only name is different, some place they are called as Maoist or Marxist or FOSA or FOIL or ASHA or AID or CPI.

Why they are against language? Objective is to kill Hindusim from Nepal.

**acharya** · 06-16-2006, 04:40 AM

Left: check price rise

Special Correspondent

Keep communal forces at bay

# Offers suggestions on peace process in J&K
# Situation in North-east discussed
# Oil price hike not discussed

NEW DELHI: The Left parties on Thursday emphasised the need to increase political intervention in attending to problems in Jammu and Kashmir and offered their views on how to carry forward the process initiated by the United Progressive Alliance Government.

The Left leaders suggested measures to move ahead on the dialogue process with both separatists and those in the mainstream of politics. The bottom line was Jammu and Kashmir was a national issue and there should be complete understanding between the UPA and the Left on it.

Taking part in a coordination committee meeting here, the Left leaders also discussed the communal situation in the country and the situation in the northeast, and expressed concern over the rise in the prices of essential commodities. The recent hike in the prices of petrol and diesel did not figure in the discussions.

Much of the discussion centred round Jammu and Kashmir with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh briefing the leaders on the outcome of the first and second round-table conferences and the progress of the dialogue process.

Home Minister Shivraj Patil spoke about the situation on the ground, the drop in infiltration, new methods of attacks, the strategy of targeting the minority community and security-related issues.

"There is the need to carry on dialogue with the separatist organisations and also hold talks with parties that are represented in the Assemblies and in the political mainstream," a senior Left leader said.

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has a position on maximum autonomy within the framework of the Constitution.

On the communal situation, the Left leaders felt that the UPA as a political entity was not attacking the problem. They said that besides in Gujarat, the minorities were under attack in all States where the Bharatiya Janata Party was in power.

The Congress and the allies in the UPA should be in the forefront of countering communal forces. As a Left leader put it, "The Left has extended support to the UPA to keep communal forces away. They should work towards it."

Gujarat happenings

The Left leaders said the Centre should take special note of the happenings in Gujarat, where about 100 persons were still detained under the now repealed Prevention of Terrorism Act, despite the recommendations by the review committee.

The upward spiral in the prices of essential commodities, especially pulses, was discussed elaborately, with the Left parties emphasising that the Government should control the trend.

Dr. Singh said free market benefited farmers too and sought suggestions on how to act in such a market regime. He defended the move to import wheat.

Union Minister Prithviraj Chavan, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and her political secretary Ahmed Patel were present. The Left leaders who participated were Prakash Karat and Sitaram Yechury (CPI-M), A.B. Bardhan (CPI), Debabrata Biswas (AIFB) and Abani Roy (RSP).

06-18-2006, 06:56 PM

QUOTE24 Karat trouble for Congress
The Pioneer
June 18, 2006

In a move aimed at increasing pressure on the Congress, CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat held a closed-door meeting with Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav here on Saturday and hinted at the emergence of a third alternative.

Having expressed reservations over the Centre's foreign and economic policies, the Left seems determined to compel the Congress to toe its line. Saturday's meeting with Mulayam is seen as an attempt by Karat to coerce the Congress into submission.

Karat timed his visit well as Congress president Sonia Gandhi was in adjoining Rae Bareli on Saturday, criticising the UP Chief Minister for his bias against her constituency.

Emerging from talks in which a number of "crucial issues" are believed to have
been discussed, Karat said his party was giving the third front a shape with the
support of Mulayam Singh Yadav as the Samajwadi Party had backed Left protests
against UPA's economic policies.

Refusing to divulge details, he stated his party's efforts were to forge an
alternative, sans the Congress and the BJP.

However, he said, the Left parties would await the Congress response to its note
on the Government's performance, which they tabled at the recent UPA
co-ordination committee meeting.

Karat's decision to take Mulayam along is bound to boost the latter's
confidence, as former Prime Minister VP Singh had targeted him recently during a
show of strength by the newly-formed Jan Morcha.

Surprisingly, Left colleagues from the CPI had shared the dais with VP Singh and even threatened to take on Mulayam in the next State elections.

Karat refused to be drawn into any controversy over the CPI stance. He said the
two Left parties were independent entities and free to chose their political
partners.

However, Mulayam, who has often accused the UPA Government of using every tactic to topple his Government, said the SP had been working with the Left on issues of common interest.

"We had jointly protested the hike in petrol and diesel prices and the response
in UP was very good," he said.

Knowing well that isolation could spell doom, Mulayam has been keeping his UPA
well-wishers in good humour of late to have a share in the bargaining block.

"Nothing can be predicted in politics," he said when asked about his party's
relations with the CPI(M).

Karat's threat of a third alternative's emergence may seem unconvincing but the
fact that Mulayam held a round of talks with HD Deve Gowda last week in the State capital gives credence to talk that all's not well with the United Progressive Alliance at the Centre.

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