OPEN LETTER TO SWAMI AGNIVESHJI

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OPEN LETTER TO SWAMI AGNIVESHJI

Dear Swami Agniveshji,

I recieved your latest letter dated 22nd July. I understand your feelings about the martyrdom of com Azad and sincere concern for the peace process. Though I could not get the attachements which you mentioned in the letter, I followed almost all of your interviews given to print media.

Since it is difficult for me to send any reply to your letter nor is it possible to send your letter to our comrades who had to decide and act on your letter. Hence this open letter. There was no other choice for me.

The deception is continuing. The deception by Mr. Chidambaram. Who ardently beleives in "quite diplomacy". He is doing the things quitely and coolly.

He offically agreed to make you the interlocuter in the "peace talks". You opened channels to send the proposals to us. He "quitely" and with a neatly chalked out plan entered our channels; knowing well that the communcication would have to reach com. Azad. Under the clear guidance from Chidambaram, the notorius APSIB implemented the plan. I feel that you too must have understood all this by now, but may be difficult for you to say so. I can understand that.

Chidambaram, had his hands were not wet with blood of our beloved com. Azad, his life partner com. Sitakka alias Padma, who was most probably shown as an encounter death in Gadcheroli on 6th July, and journalist Hem Chandra Pandey, he could have seen staight into his eyes and accepted for an enquiry in to this ablsolutely fake encounter. He knows that he was the brain behind this operation and that was why he could not have accepted this demand. Who knows like Amitshah who is exposed as the the main culprit in Sohara buddin case, Chidambaram too could be implicated one day, if there were to be an enquiry. Any way, he denigrated your status as an interlocutor by rejecting the most genuine demand.

Your letter dated 26th of June reached com azad, just before 30th. The APSIB which already entered the mechanism knew this. They know that they could scuttle the process by eliminating com. Azad. With that purpose only they entered through the channels you had opened to send your letters to us. We fell to the prey of this great deception by Chidambaram.

We feel that you are being used as a pawn in the whole process. Sorry for the straight talk!

Please ask Mr Chidambaram one question. What is that the APSIB has been doing in many states outside Andhra pradesh? In UP, west Bengal, In Delhi, so on so forth? Are they functioning without his knowledge? Does he not know that it is the APSIB team that arrested com. Kobad Gandhy and put him under illegal custody for three days and on 20th septemeber he was given to Delhi Police? Shall I inform you the list of the personnel of APSIB who arrested com Kobad Gandhy; and who headed that team? May be it will be a small addition to the wikileaks, and can be a scoop to the media.

The point is again the deception. He is talking of langauge of "peace". He is planning cold blooded murders with his trusted APSIB.

Now that you have given another letter to our CC. Appealing to take the further the peace process that was started.

Your letter dated 22nd july reached me. Not just the letter. Some thing more too. The APSIB too reached me. How can we understand this phenomenon? I just escaped very narrowly. On August 1st. If we can meet some time later, like we met on the dias of Karimnagar Peasant Labour Assocaition meeeting in 1983 where we addressed the gathering along with others, (You paid rich tributes to com Haribhushan who was killed by the then NTR regime), i can give you the details. Had I gone into the hands of this notorius Indian Mossad, your 22nd letter must have gone back to the chidambaram, pehaps with some blood marks on it, like your 26th letter reached Chidambaram in similar way. We do not have any iota of doubts in your genuine feelings regarding the peace process. I am afraid that you are pegion among the cats. The cats are using you to catch us in this process.

The APSIB encircled me and for the time being I am out of it. In these circumstances it is difficult for me to send any reply to you through some channels or send your letter to our comrades. I request you to openly publish your letters in the papers. Any channel if you try to send through, it might end up in some loss. I hope we can no more afford that.

Chidamabaram will continue to play unfair game. He has already claimed our beloved comrades lives along with life of a journalist.

Our comrades will reply to you on your proposals if you can publish your letters through media. The june 26th letter and the present one, since june 26th letter has not reached our comrades. Since they are written by you, it is your prerogative to publish openly or not. May be you have to go against Chidambaram by not doing these things "quitely". He is sticking upto his programme by doing "quitely".

Your lofty concerns and well meaning efforts are torpadoed by Chidambaram with his dirty tricks. He might have scuttled the peace process by killing com. Azad. Can he stop the revoution? The history of Hitler is before us.
I stated hard facts.

with warm regards,
Srikant@ Sukant
Central Committee Member,
CPI(Maoist)
August 3rd

Crores on propaganda shows rulers desperate: Azad, CPI(Maoist))

Comrade Azad, spokesperson, central committee, CPI (Maoist), talks about why his party has called for an election boycott, how it plans to implement it, why Left-led Third Front government is out of the question as they are trying to brand themselves secular only to grab power. Azad spares no one, whether it is L K Advani, Congress, Mayawati or Prakash Karat, calling them opportunists.

This is one of the biggest elections with about a billion voters participating. Don't you see it as people's growing faith in parliamentary democracy?
Certainly not. Every day, media, central and state governments and all contesting parties are dinning into the ears of people to exercise their vote. This shows the desperation of the ruling classes. Crores are being spent on propaganda alone. They are so scared that they cannot imagine allowing voters the minimum democratic right to reject parties and candidates contesting the elections.

Your party has called for poll boycott. But involvement of people in elections seems to be growing.
There is neither any interest nor involvement of people in the elections. Even the narrow base of some parties has taken a beating this time. Contrary to images you see on TV, the involvement of people has declined compared to earlier elections. Hence, the desperate attempt by rulers to rope in film stars, cricketers and popular personalities into publicity campaigns to educate people regarding the virtues of parliamentary democracy, and about the great responsibility of citizens in casting their votes.

Left parties are trying to build a non-BJP, non-Congress alternative at the Centre. What is your view on the Third Front?
The Third Front forged by CPI and CPM as a secular democratic front comprising non-Congress, non-BJP forces is actually a congregation of self-seeking discredited opportunists, all of whom have proved to be hypocrites and double-dealers in their respective states. Who needs to be taught about the infamous history of a Chandrababu Naidu, a Jayalalitha, a Mayawati, a Deve Gowda, a Naveen Patnaik? These leaders and their parties, who had, at one time or the other, shared power with the Hindu chauvinist BJP, are being given secular-democratic image by the Left.

The Karats, Yechuris and other power brokers of the so-called Left had churned out the slogan of anti-communalism to justify their alignment with the most loyal agent of imperialists, Congress, during the 2004 elections. Now, these opportunists see anti-communalism in parties like TDP, BSP, AAIDMK, JD(U) and BJD, all of whom had never really demarcated themselves from communal BJP, and have no compunction in striking an alliance with it if it gave them a share in power. For our Marxist ideologues, all these forces have suddenly become secular. One should not be surprised if they once again become the tail of Congress after the election.

Why do you say that?
Just see. They found secularism, anti-imperialism and democratic moorings among parties such as TDP, a party which was first to transform a state into a laboratory of the World Bank and is responsible for the murder of over 2,000 Maoist revolutionaries besides the high-level of corruption of the regime led by Chandrababu Naidu. There are other opportunists such as Jayalalitha's AIADMK that had become infamous for the scale of corruption, abuse of power and fascist suppression of people's struggles in TN; Naveen Patnaik's BJD has sold the state to imperialists and proved itself to be executioner for the imperialists by massacring adivasis in Kaliga Nagar, POSCO, etc, besides protecting saffron hoodlums as they went about killing, raping and persecuting Christians. Deve Gowda's JD(S) shared power with BJP and broke with it only when the latter wanted a greater share of power; you have Mayawati who would do anything to grab power whether it be power-sharing with the BJP on rotational basis, or striking an alliance with Brahmins and subordinating Dalits to upper-caste Hindus, besides crushing all opponents ruthlessly. 

The Third Front has certainly weakened the two major alliances, NDA and UPA, and has led to further fragmentation of Indian polity.

How will you take your boycott campaign to the people?
We began after EC declared the poll schedule. Our stand has been made clear to people through circulars, press statements, interviews, leaflets, posters, wall writings. Cultural teams stage performances among the people. We will carry this out till the last phase of elections. It also includes questioning candidates and party members, gheraoing them, making them confess their misdeeds before the people.

Then there is active boycott where we prevent candidates from carrying out their campaigns in villages and smaller urban centres in our areas. We warn the parties not to venture out into our areas. When they do not heed our warnings, we stop their campaign, beat them up if they are notorious elements, burn their vehicles, conduct people's courts where possible and make the party representatives confess the misdeeds of their respective parties and seek apology from the people. They are let off after they agree not to come to the villages again. We carry out counter-offensive actions against police and central forces who are used by the reactionary rulers to enforce elections at gun-point. Basically our active boycott too is a political campaign though we undertake some actions aimed at destroying enemy forces.

What about the growing impact of regional parties?
The elections this time are the most complex, most crisis-ridden and most fragmented. Extreme instability and contradictions plague every party and candidate. No party or candidate seems to be certain of the poll outcome. Hence they are resorting to all sorts of gimmicks to attract the apathetic voter. The desertion by the Left, Lalu's RJD, Mulayam's SP, Paswan's LJP, Ramdoss's PMK have left Congress and the UPA in a pathetic condition. Likewise, BJP and its NDA allies have lost support of strong allies like BJD, AIADMK and several smaller parties. Neither BJP nor Congress is in a position to hold their respective alliances together and centrifugal tendencies will continue to weaken these further.

What is the alternative Maoists are offering to parliamentary democracy?
The alternative is people's democracy where it is the people, and not a few moneybags, who decide the destiny of the country and their own lives. It is genuine democracy as seen from the grassroots level to the top and not vice versa. You can see e grassroots democracy at work in the vast tracts of Dandakaranya where Maoists are running a parallel government. There, people are supreme and decisions are made through gram sabhas, assemblies of the people and not by invisible hands. The people's courts, of course, will be refined further but the content remains the same, deliverance of real and speedy justice by taking the side of the oppressed, persecuted people.

Times of India