Author: Shyam Khosla
Publication: Organiser
Date: October 29, 2006
URL: http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=154&page=27
Introduction: Security of North Korea, and
not of India, is uppermost in the minds of Communists. They don't think China
that had a large arsenal of nuclear bombs and a massive delivery system a
potential threat to our security and territorial integrity. CPM was extremely
upset and sad when India became a nuclear power.
The CPM is unabashedly unpatriotic. Its actions,
responses and mindset on almost all issues that have a bearing on supreme
national interests and India's security prove this to the hilt. The party's
interpretation of the Marxist ideology prevents it from taking a nationalist
line on any major issue, though in order to confuse the masses, it names its
publications with fancy names like Deshabhmani and Deshsevak. May be, the
Communist don't talk about India when they mention Desh. They may be thinking
of their ideological fatherlands when they talk about "Desh". It
is a matter of record that the Communist Party of India (Remember, it detests
calling itself Indian Communist Party) denounced the Second World War as an
"imperialist war" but lost no time in declaring it a "people's
war" the moment Communist Russia joined the allies. Its betrayal of the
Quit India Movement during which Communist leaders and cadres acted as British
agents to sabotage the movement and providing information to the police to
get nationalist leaders like JP and Lohia arrested is a sad chapter of our
freedom movement. The undivided Communist Party's role during the Chinese
attack on India in 1962 (when it declared India as the aggressor and justified
Chinese occupation of large tract of Indian territory) is too recent to be
forgotten by people, short though the public memory is.
The latest in the series is the CPM's response
to North Korea's nuclear explosion. The party that had roundly condemned the
BJP-led Government for Pokhran-II in 1998 and organised mass rallies and street
corner meetings to launch a tirade against India emerging as a nuclear power,
has now gone out of its way to defend the Communist country's right to make
the bomb. It argues that North Korea can't be denied the right to go nuclear
since US has a massive nuclear arsenal but never raised this issue and conveniently
forgot that our hostile neighbour China had nuclear weapons that could reduce
our cities to rubble. It rubbished the NDA Government's assertion that the
nuclear weapons had been developed as deterrence but defends Pyongyang's claim
of being a nuclear state because it was meant to defend itself. The CPM took
strong exception to the Indian Nuclear Doctrine in 1999 and went to lodge
its protest with the then Prime Minister A B Vajpayee on the doctrine' formulation
that in the absence of a global nuclear disarmament, Indian strategic interests
required effective and credible nuclear deterrence and adequate retaliatory
capability should deterrence fail.
Security of North Korea, and not of India,
is uppermost in the minds of Communists. They don't think China that had a
large arsenal of nuclear bombs and a massive delivery system a potential threat
to our security and territorial integrity. The CPM was extremely upset and
sad when India became a nuclear power but is elated-as is evident from stray
remarks by its leaders-that the rogue country has successfully tested the
bomb with the help of nuclear technology smuggled from Pakistan. The Communist
parties persistently attack our security forces engaged in counter-insurgency
operations in J&K and North East of "violation" of human rights
but the very same parties remain mum on an extremely poor human rights record
of North Korea. Earlier this year, these parties roundly condemned plans to
hold an international rally at Brussels - the headquarters of the European
Union - to highlight human right violations in North Korea dismissing it as
a part of the smear campaign to tarnish the image of Communist North Korea.
As if to prove that it is unpatriotic to the
core, the CPM mouthpiece - People's democracy - came down heavily on the Indian
stand that North Korea had violated its international commitments. Not only
that, People's Democracy pontificated by telling the UPA Government that it
would make more sense if the Indian Government were to "boldly decide"
to initiate the process for a nuclear disarmament agenda and timetable and
committing to roll back "its own nuclear weaponisation" as part
of this process. The CPM mouthpiece is suggesting that India should destroy
its nuclear weapons to set an example before other nations, including the
rogue states - Pakistan and North Korea. Its double standards have no bounds
as it has no such advice for Communist China and North Korea and Islamist
Pakistan. Atom bombs in the possession on failed states - Pakistan and North
Korea - are no threat to world peace, according to the Communists but a nuclear
India that has an impeccable record of adhering to its international commitment
is a threat to peace in the region!!
Prime Minister Tony Blair and President Bush
say India going nuclear is quite different from North Korea possessing the
bomb. The British Prime Minister recently told a news conference that India
was very strong on counter-proliferation whereas North Korea was going the
opposite direction. Pyongyang, he said, had clearly breached its international
obligations. Communists in India don't agree. They think India was in the
wrong and was guilty of pushing South Asia into a nuclear race, while "poor
and harassed" Pyongyang has no option but to acquire nuclear weapons
to fight American hegemony. They are no doubt Chinese and Korean patriots
but care too hoots for being patriot to their own motherland! That is natural
for them. They are Communists.
