COMMUNIST
PARTY OF INDIA (MAOIST)
CENTRAL
COMMITTEE
Press
Release
March24, 2014
Boycott the sham parliament & assembly
elections!
Make the New Democratic Revolution
successful!
The building of an Indian people’s
democratic federal republic based on genuine democracy and
self-reliance is the only alternative
The elections for the 16m
Loksabha and for the assemblies of Telangana, Seemandhra, Odisha,
Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh are to be held from April 7 to May l2,
2014. The exploiting ruling classes of our country are readying to
impose another huge financial burden on the people by spending
thousands of crores of rupees on this. On this occasion the major
parliamentary parties Congress and BJP are vying extremely with each
other for power and are tying to deceive the people one more time by
claiming that only they would develop our country. Defections from
top to bottom from the opportunistic alliances of the UPA led by
Congress and the NDA led by the BJP to other parties and vice versa
had begun long before and they are assuming rapidity as the elections
approached.
Recently the Third Front came to
the fore with much fanfare with eleven parties. As everybody
expected, it is still immersed in fist fights regarding sharing of
seats. The agreement between the Left Front and the AIADMK in the
Third Front became invalid even before the ink had dried due to
differences in sharing seats. The left parties including CPI (M) had
not yet recovered from the insulting defeat they had suffered in the
West Bengal elections. Parties like the SP, BSP, DMK, AIADMK, Biju
Janata Dal, Janata Dal (U), Trinamool, AGP, TDP, TRS, YSRCP etc are
fearing defeat to join either the UPA or the NDA and so have either
joined the Third Front or going it alone with so-called slogans of
social justice, emancipation of Dalits and Bahujans and regional
development etc. Both the Third Front parties and those parties
contesting on their own are following a ‘wait and see’ policy to
join whichever alliance comes to power after the election results. As
Lok Jansakti Dal joined the NDA as it felt defeat was certain if it
remains in UPA, the RJD is continuing in the UPA to somehow keep its
lantern burning. The politicians belonging to various parties who
came to the fore overnight with new flags and new agendas after
leaving their parties fearing defeat due to people’s wrath or
because they did not get a seat in their parties are flinging as much
mud as possible over each other in this fight for seats. As they had
come to power leaving all morals and rules aside with the sole aim of
power through money - money through power and again power through
money and had exploited, oppressed and tortured the people without
respite and lost the confidence of the people, they are resorting to
such blatant opportunist methods having lost any hope of winning in
these elections.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)
entered the electoral arena with the aim of benefiting from
submerging the people in illusions one more time. lt is trying to
catch the attention of the people with revolutionary rhetoric
sheltered in ideological eclecticism consisting of Gandhian ‘Ahimsa’
and ‘Swaraj’ and ‘socialist’ politics of Jayaprakash Narain
and its NGO ‘direct participatory democracy’ stands.
Though elections have been held
several times and several goveniments had changed in the past 65
years of ‘independent’ rule, it is a fact that even to this day
the basic needs of the people like food, clothing, shelter, education
and health care remained out of reach. The oppressed masses who
constitute 95% of the population are confronting poverty, illiteracy.
Unemployment, price rises, diseases, starvation deaths, corruption
etc on a daily basis. 77% of the population is living on less than 20
rupees per day. On the other hand the big bourgeoisie and the big
landlords are enjoying enormous amounts of wealth. Hundred
corporations belonging to vultures like Ambani, Tata, Birla, Mittal,
Jindal etc account for 25% of the GDP of our country. The chasm
between the rich and the poor increased beyond imagination.
Corruption and scams increased in leaps and bounds. The laws
formulated to hamper these social differences and to prevent them had
never been used on the moneyed classes. As a result, social unrest is
swelling. The Hindutva Sangh Parivar religious chauvinist oppression
on the religious minorities and the Hindutva Brahminical upper caste
oppression on the Dalits in our country have increased. The
repression on national liberation struggles like Kashmir, Asom and
Manipur is increasing day by day. As a result of the long drawn
struggles of the Telangana people for decades together the parliament
had to inevitably give its approval for the formation of a separate
state for Telangana. However, they are still suppressing cruelly
aspirations for separate statehoods for Bodoland, Gorkhaland etc. The
Adivasis are continuously denied their rights over
Jal-Jung!e-Zameen-/ldhikar. The women are getting crushed under
imperialist and feudal vicious culture.
As the UPA government led by
Congress is rapidly implementing the second phase of economic reforms
in its five year rule as a continuation of the Liberalization,
Privatization and Globalization (LPG) policies due to the pressure of
the imperialists and the big capitalists of our country who are
bogged down in the world economic crisis, the conditions worsened in
all the sectors in our country. It signed countless MoUs with MNCs
and big corporations of our country and opened the doors widely for
indiscriminate exploitation by handing over the natural riches of our
country to them. Blatantly violating the 5m Schedule, PESA etc of the
constitution in Adivasi areas it is holding gram sabhas at the point
of the gun in several areas in our country with peasantry and the
Adivasis, forcefully taking their consent for land acquisition and is
implementing policies that would displace them on a gigantic scale.
Due to the bankrupt policies of this government, the industrial
production in our country suffered and lakhs of workers were thrown
on the roads. Work burden on workers increased. Their real wages
plunged. The number of unorganized workers outside the purview of
labor laws increased. It took up policies that would hand over retail
trade to the imperialist companies. It gradually handed over the
agriculture sector to the corporations and pushed agriculture into
severe crisis. Increase in production costs. lack of government
support in the form of loans etc and lack of minimum support prices
led to large scale suicides of farmers. The lives of the people
became intolerable with the skyrocketing of daily consumer goods with
the time to time increase in petrol and diesel prices. The
privatization of education and health sector turned them into a
rarity for the common people. Corruption reached the skies and with
great scams like 2G spectrum, Commonwealth Games, Coal gate etc the
various ruling class politicians, cliques, government-military higher
ups gulped down lakhs of crores of rupees of peop1e’s exchequer.
These brazen bandits and traitors stashed away billions of dollars in
Swiss banks.
The schemes taken up by the UPA
government and hyped to the skies as the dream of Indira Gandhi’s
‘Garibi Hata0’ realized by Sonia Gandhi have all turned
ridiculous with reeking corruption. ln fact, the yesteryear slogan of
land reforms disappeared completely. Due to its ecology-damaging
policies natural disasters like in Uttarakhand, untimely rains and
cyclones are occurring and people are suffering heavy losses. Its
newly legislated acts relating to ‘land acquisition’, ‘food
security’ and ‘Nirbhaya’ are aimed at either sewing the
interests of the imperialists and the exploiting ruling classes or as
an eye-wash.
The UPA government depended on
military, paramilitary, special police and commando forces and on
intelligence agencies like IB, NIA and SIB to suppress the masses who
are rebelling against their anti-people policies and to consolidate
its rule and carrying on offensives in fascist methods. It is curbing
civil rights and even the right to live. The enemy forces are
carrying on massacres of hundreds of Adivasis, Dalits, other
oppressed masses revolutionary activists and in revolutionary
movement areas led by our party. As part of carpet security all the
movement areas in the various states have been turned into military
camps of enemy forces. Thousands of innocent people, revolutionary
activists and leaders were put in jails. On the one hand they are
shouting that ‘the Maoist guerillas who are resorting to violence
in the forests do not have any ideology’ and on the other they are
trying to control the intellectuals by stating that ‘the Maoist
ideologues in the cities who are continuously stoking the Maoist
ideology are more dangerous than the guerillasf They are trying to
isolate the progressive intellectuals, writers, youth and the
students from the revolutionary movement and stand them in opposition
to it. The BJP, left front and other state governments are also
collaborating with the UPA government in this. The BJP had supported
the UPA government in the past ten years on all the major policies it
implemented. The only difference being where they sat - whether in
ruling or in opposition. All their accusations and
counter-accusations were done with the intention of deceiving the
people. There is not much difference between the central and state
governments too in this matter despite any party being in power.
Similarly this suppression is not confined only to the Maoist
movement areas. The anti-POSCO, anti-nuclear Kudamkulam struggles are
the fresh examples of this. The hegemony of the US imperialists in
the economic, polity, military and cultural spheres and the
intervention of its intelligence agency FBI increased during UPA
rule. The Wikileaks revelations made it clear that nearly one lakh US
soldiers and officers are staying clandestinely in our country and
are conveying all kinds of support and help directly and indirectly
in imposing fascism on the people.
The Congress that was in power
continuously for ten years followed pro-imperialist, pro-CBB and pro-
big landlord policies and was responsible for the agonizing living
conditions of the people and the disastrous economy of our country
and for the massacres of thousands of activists of various democratic
and revolutionary movements and people, persecution of religious
minorities in the name of ‘terrorists.’ It won the dubious
distinction of being the originator of the biggest and highest number
of corruption scams in the parliamentary history of our country. As a
result it won the severe hatred of the people. To escape this and
hoodwink the people the Congress is bringing to the fore its main
slogan of ‘Bhamt Nirman’ pointing towards the ‘development’
it achieved in its ten-year rule and towards the anti-corruption,
land acquisition, food security and Nirbhaya acts and welfare schemes
that it formulated. The Congress has been in power at the centre and
in most of the states for the maximum time after 1947. It was mainly
responsible by being in power for such a long period of time for the
anti-people policies that were formulated and implemented. The
massacres of religious minorities, particularly the massacre of Sikhs
in 1984 took place under its rule. Though Sangh Parivar was directly
responsible for the destruction of Babri Masjid it was the Congress
that was behind the high drama from the centre. It was mainly
responsible for suppressing the just national liberation struggles of
the Kashmir and the present North East by massacring tens of thousand
of youth through its military brute force. It implemented all these
anti-people policies by taking the help of other parliamentary
parties when in power and also by colluding with the ruling alliances
when not in power. Who else would be mainly responsible than the
Congress for the insufferable conditions of the workers, peasants,
petty bourgeois sections, oppressed nationalities, Dalits, Adivasis,
religious minorities, women, small and medium capitalists in our
country? The people are not so gullible as to believe its ‘Bhamt
Nirman ’, so-called welfare schemes, deceptive anti-cormption pose.
BJP’s main attack is on the
corrupt rule of the Congress. It is clear that it does not have any
basically different policies than Congress on any of the main issues
confronting the people and the country and has the same corrupt,
treacherous and dictatorial policies in any sphere. With the
directive of the RSS, BJP announced the Hindu bigot and mass murderer
Narendra Modi as its prime ministerial candidate. It is hiding its
Hindu chauvinist agenda behind the ‘Gujarat Vikas’ model and is
concentrating its entire machinery around Modi to capture power at
the centre one more time. ‘Gujarat Vikas’ model means terrorizing
the Muslim and Christian minorities, seizing their properties,
chasing them away from their abodes or making them servile through
massacres of Muslim religious minorities and subjecting them to
innumerable atrocities along with atrocities on Christian religious
minorities; making the entire state as the hub for the investments of
MNCs, big bourgeoisie and opening doors to their endless exploitation
and oppression. The Sangh Parivar and the BJP are aiming to establish
this Hitlerite model in the guise of ‘Vikas’ in the entire
country by coming to power in these elections. Congress came to power
the previous two terms and won the severe wrath of the people. So the
ruling classes and the US imperialists are openly supporting the
candidature of Modi for the PM post as he would implement their
agenda ruthlessly. Accordingly the corporate media is propagating
Modi on a huge scale. Its attempt to win in the Delhi elections by
bringing a religious divide through religious riots in Muzaffamagar
indicates only its fascist face. Rajnath Singh’s statement a few
days before the election dates were announced that he was apologizing
to the Muslims ‘if at any place any wrong was done to them’ is
nothing but a ploy to hide the massacre of Muslims carried on by Modi
in Gujarat and gain their votes. But how would the Muslim and
Christian religious minorities forget the massacres, discrimination,
suppression and chauvinism that they suffered in the hands of the
Sangh Parivar right from 1947 to the recent Muzaffamagar killings?
The pogrom and persecution of religious minorities in Gujarat under
Modi met with unprecedented opposition and protest not only in
Gujarat but all over our country. Even if they come to power, the
Hindu fascists will have to face the countrywide active resistance of
the Muslim and Christian minorities, revolutionary and democratic
forces. This would be the foremost task of these forces then.
The AAP that was bom and brought
up with a NGO background and on imperialist and NRI funds and
support, is not going into the roots of this system and into the
basic problems of the people and is resorting Gandhian feats for
solving people’s problems. They do not have any solution for the
basic problems of the oppressed classes, people and sections that are
being suppressed under exploitation and oppression. It is serving as
a safety valve to divert the erupting people’s anger into peaceful
and parliamentary solutions and trying to cash in on it.
The actual issues of the people
never come up for discussion in the parliament and the assemblies.
They are under the control of the imperialists, CBB and the big
landlords. Where is the place for democracy in this system where
votes could be bought with money, liquor, religious and casteist
sentiments? It is ridiculous to call this a democracy when criminals,
bandits and notoriously corrupt politicians win in elections. In
fact, when we look into history we find that people’s problems have
always been solved through people’s struggles, class struggles and
PPW and not through parliamentary forums.
As elections are being conducted
like a farce each time, the Election Commission of India vowed to
strengthen democracy during these elections and is trying to bring in
several reforms along with including guidelines according to the
Supreme Court order. As part of strengthening democracy, the SC had
issued orders to give the voters the right to ‘reject.’ As a
result, the NOTA button was introduced in the EVMs for the first time
during the assembly elections in five states in 2013. Now during
these Loksabha elections this is being introduced all over the
country. In fact, this NOTA right suppresses the ‘right to recall’
the elected representatives that the people should rightfully have.
If they really intend to give the ‘right to reject’, then why are
they deploying lakhs of government armed forces in areas where our
party had given the call to boycott the polls in the name of
conducting ‘free and fair` elections and carrying on attacks,
search operations, arrests, fake encounters and massacres?
The great Marxist teacher Lenin
stated in his ‘State and Revolution - "Elections are held to
decide once every few years which member ofthe ruling class is to
repress and crush the people through parliament-such is the real
essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in
parliamentary-constitutional monarchies, but also in the most
democratic republics? This is more applicable to our semi-colonial,
semi-feudal country that claims itself to be the ‘biggest democracy
in the world.’ That is why, none of the oppressed masses believe
that their lives would change or that there would be a fundamental
change in this system through these elections. In all the elections
held our country so far, considerable number of voters are distancing
themselves from polling. The stronger parties occupy the polling
booths with their goon force and conduct rigging. Even those who vote
are not doing so with the belief that these elections would benefit
them. They are voting just for local needs or other pressures or
lures such as caste, religion, regionalism, money, liquor, goondaism
etc. There is no alternative for the people in this sham
parliamentary system.
All the major parties coming to
the fore in the elections are subservient to the imperialists and
represent the Indian exploiting ruling classes. All these parties are
anti-people, treacherous corrupt, oppressive, reactionary and fascist
in nature. Serving the interests of imperialism, CBB and the big
landlord classes, keeping intact the Indian semi-colonial semi-feudal
system and crushing all democratic and revolutionary movements is the
aim of these parties. They are coming together to suppress our party,
the CPI (Maoist) that is coming to the fore as an alternative to
this, the NDR led by it and the embryonic new organs of political
power that represent the Indian people’s democratic federal
republic based on genuine democracy and self-reliance. Though these
comprador parties loll in the pig-sty of the parliament for power and
engage in dog-fights with each other for their share in the loot,
when it comes to crushing the revolutionary movement by labeling it
the ‘gravest threat to internal security’ of our country they are
all unanimous. They are resorting to a severe multi-pronged offensive
according to the US dictated LIC strategy and tactics. Their
deceptive proposals for Peace Talks and reform schemes are aimed at
diverting the people and the democrats and to carry on a further
heavy offensive on the revolutionary movement. The countrywide
multi-pronged offensive carried on in the name War on People - OGH
since mid- 2009 by the central government by colluding with BJP and
along with various state governments is a part of this. They are
trying without success through repression to preserve this rotten
exploiting system. But in a backdrop where the revolutionary
conditions are maturing day by day, they are doomed to be swept away
by the people.
The present exploitative system
cannot be transformed with elections. The basic problems of the
people would not be solved. Even their basic needs would not be
fulfilled. All the electoral parties are dead against genuine
democracy, self-reliance and sovereignty of our country. None of them
is morally qualified to ask our people to vote for them. That is why
our party is giving a call to the entire people of India to boycott
these sham parliamentary and assembly elections and to march forward
in the path of PPW for the victory of the NDR that is waged with
agrarian revolution as the axis on the basis of ‘land to the
tiller’ for building an Indian people’s democratic federal
republic. This new democratic state will be the people’s democratic
dictatorship exercised by the united front comprising the
proletariat, peasantry, petty-bourgeoisie and the national
bourgeoisie class under the leadership of the proletariat based upon
the worker-peasant alliance and liberate our country from the
clutches of the imperialists, the CBB and the big landlords.
(Abhay)
Spokesperson,
Central
Committee, CPI (Maoist)
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