01-24-2008, 06:28 PM
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Santanu Banerjee | New Delhi
It was a mistake! After 63 years, the Communist Party of India said that criticising Netaji's policy of "enemy's enemy is friend" was wrong!
The admission by CPI general secretary AB Bardhan came at a book release function on Wednesday. The two-volume book is a compilation of Netaji's writings in Forward Bloc Weekly which he lunched on August 5 in 1939 after being ousted from the post of Congress president and then from the party.
Bardhan admitted that his party's campaign in "40s against Bose was a mistake and said the Communists then failed to realise that Bose was the first all Indian Left leader who talked about the Left unity against the Rightists whom he fought within the Congress.
"Then I was a student of Class X and I can still recollect the fervour Netaji produced at all-India level with Left-minded youth," Bardhan told the audience as he released the book.
The book consists of Netaji's weekly editorials in which he relentlessly attacked both British repression and Gandhi-led Congress feet-dragging on the issue of Independence.
The British Government put a ban on the publication from June next year (1940)
"There is a trend engineered now by the Congress to write one-sided history where the contribution of Netaji did not find a proper place,'" Bardhan attacked the Congress.
"But despite this long distortion of history, Netaji's image only glowed like sun among the masses in India," Bardhan said.
Bardhan, one of the grassroots and veteran Communist leaders, told the audience that "It was Netaji who way back in 1939 first spoke about the Left unity to fight the Rightist forces and formed a Left Consolidation Committee to give a boost to this direction."
The Left watchers here believe that Bardhan took this opportunity to tell the other Left partners that Bose, who first spoke of a planned economy and consistently stressed Left unity, should be emulated to sink the differences within the Left movement.
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Santanu Banerjee | New Delhi
It was a mistake! After 63 years, the Communist Party of India said that criticising Netaji's policy of "enemy's enemy is friend" was wrong!
The admission by CPI general secretary AB Bardhan came at a book release function on Wednesday. The two-volume book is a compilation of Netaji's writings in Forward Bloc Weekly which he lunched on August 5 in 1939 after being ousted from the post of Congress president and then from the party.
Bardhan admitted that his party's campaign in "40s against Bose was a mistake and said the Communists then failed to realise that Bose was the first all Indian Left leader who talked about the Left unity against the Rightists whom he fought within the Congress.
"Then I was a student of Class X and I can still recollect the fervour Netaji produced at all-India level with Left-minded youth," Bardhan told the audience as he released the book.
The book consists of Netaji's weekly editorials in which he relentlessly attacked both British repression and Gandhi-led Congress feet-dragging on the issue of Independence.
The British Government put a ban on the publication from June next year (1940)
"There is a trend engineered now by the Congress to write one-sided history where the contribution of Netaji did not find a proper place,'" Bardhan attacked the Congress.
"But despite this long distortion of history, Netaji's image only glowed like sun among the masses in India," Bardhan said.
Bardhan, one of the grassroots and veteran Communist leaders, told the audience that "It was Netaji who way back in 1939 first spoke about the Left unity to fight the Rightist forces and formed a Left Consolidation Committee to give a boost to this direction."
The Left watchers here believe that Bardhan took this opportunity to tell the other Left partners that Bose, who first spoke of a planned economy and consistently stressed Left unity, should be emulated to sink the differences within the Left movement.
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