Two Cats and a Monkey
Maoist -Ready to pounce
So the TOI puts it as Red Vs. Red. Well I don’t satisfy with it. It’s more of the nanny-story about the two foolish cats fighting over bread and a clever monkey who steals it away from them in name of proper division. Well, as you may have guessed until now the two cats here are the Congress and the CPM and the wise monkey is of course the Maoists.
When Congress swayed elections with such a huge margin I took a sigh of relief imagining that at least now the India will be undivided. However the present complications in Lalgarh have proved me fantastically wrong (… well I ain’t a taro card reader). Fantastically, because I missed a small contradiction in the equation: contradiction between the party at the Centre and the State. Situation became worse not only because of the Maoists in Bengal but due to friction between the Congress and CPM in the state. Maoists took the ingenious benefit like the monkey with not only huge armed cadre force but also hundreds of villages in their control.
What CPM is paying now is the price of their past crimes against the people who brought it in to power in the first place. They first filled the mob’s mind with their poor friendly, anti-bourgeoisie and violent ideas and then tried to whip and control them by force whilst they shifted towards pragmatic and profit motivated principles. You can’t have the sweets in both hands as the hindi saying goes. And Nandigram proved it right. Now they have to fight their own kind. Just imagine the joy Hitler could have felt if he would have been living to see this day (…of course there would have not been any
CPM -SOS
communist left then 
). After the Nandigram incidence and the attack on CM and Paswan’s caravan they used an insane brutal force in panic on the locals. I got the first hand descriptions of the atrocities they unleashed. Cops dragged the innocent villagers out of their houses. They were beaten brutally and sometimes even shot at point blank in front of their fellow villagers just for the sake of gallantry medals and satisfaction of the egos of the leaders. Incidences such of those of killing of merit holder students in the name of anti-Maoist operations can really infuriate any one. So are the insane beatings of tribes women. Ironically, same cops are now hiding in their police stations while the tribes’ people are burning the streets. CPM of course is helpless before the monster it created. Even with the whole cadre and CRPF forces it has access to it can’t save even its own leaders. Its only hope lies with the centre.
Congress on the other hand is visualizing it as an unasked gift from the sky. Other than
Congress -Empty handed
playing the blame game it has thrown all the responsibilities on the state government shoulders’. It’s ironic as this was the same party whose elected prime minister declared Naxalites as the biggest nuisance for India (… this include terrorism in Kashmir). Why such change of attitude? Let’s check it out mathematically. Just follow me in this simple equation:
By level of precedence according to Congress:
Naxals > Kashmiri terrorists
However,
Kashmiri terrorism = Action by Indian militia + commando force + CRPF + bomb squads + …
Naxals in Bengal= Action by CRPF and rest with the state and the good lord.
Also,
Jammu and Kashmir=National Conference (ally of Congress)
West Bengal=CPM (opposition to Congress)
Thus Contradiction proved.
However what both of them are forgetting is the wise monkey. Maoists are not just any rowdy extremists. They are armed forces with structured network. Moreover, they have now spread to nearly 40 percent of country’s land area. Their pure domination i.e. Naxalite belt currently around 92000sq. km. is way more than those of LTTE in Sri Lanka. To further worsen the matter since Nandigram incidence they have now even won the heart of local tribes, parties like TC. Nepal has seen the fall of an ancient and powerful empire in front of these Maoists. The biggest blunder CPM has committed is giving them a right reason to fight for. Congress is also committing a great felony by not containing them at the right time. LTTE cost a good many decades and 90000 lives before being completely eradicated. If that’s what Indian government wants then good for them. A serious round of talks with the Maoist leader at the central level and post demilitarization of their armed forces could solve the matter now. Else wait for the worse.
