Bird Flue Update: CPM machinery stood in the way

1. In many villages, people led by ruling party leaders resisted culling operations. Margram Panchayat, for instance, is under the control of the Congress. The CPM backed popular sentiment of the villagers hoping to cash in during the ensuing panchayat polls in May-June. Sanjiv Barman, the zonal committee secretary of Rampurhat Block II said: “If we do not come to their support at this critical juncture they will not support us in the ballot box. We are therefore raising the issue of inadequate compensation.” Result: many villagers refused to give up the birds for culling.
2. Leaders complained of lack of an awareness campaign before culling operations began. Often, culling teams went to villages at odd hours without any prior information and villagers were not prepared to hand over the birds. “No one told us about the disease and one morning, they came and demanded my poultry. The birds were out. I asked them to come another day. I kept waiting with my poultry but no one turned up,” said Sheikh Amzad of Buropithtola in Margram.
3. In some places like Nalhati, culling teams were beaten up. A day after culling operations began, local CPM members took out rallies in a number of villages in Margram, Nalhati and Mayureshwar areas, demanding better compensation for affected farmers.
4. In Parulia village, when the team reached on January 16, about 100 people, led by Ananda Bagdi, the local CPM Panchayat Pradhan, resisted the culling. They had two demands: culling teams had to take their permission before entering the village and an upward revision of the compensation. The culling teams backed off.
5. There was no effort on the part of CPM leaders to use their fabled party network to spread awareness about the dangers of the virus and co-operate with authorities.
6. CPM state secretary Biman Bose issued an alert yesterday — a week after the outbreak.* As the bird flu virus spread, the Ministers were distracted by the CPM party congress in Kolkata. Both the ARD and the Health Ministries are held by the CPM. It was only on January 20, five days after official announcement of the outbreak, that Anisur Rehman, state ARD minister, visited Birbhum and Margram.
7. Surya Kant Mishra, state health minister, visited Bolpur in Birbhum on January 22. No other minister visited Ground Zero.

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Chicken Flue Situation in West Bengal Update

23/01/2008

Bird flu spread to many areas of West Bengal on Tuesday as the Centre increased the target of number of poultry to be culled to nearly 15 lakh.

Animal Husbandry Commissioner S K Bandopadhyay said

It is being controlled. It is not under control," he said while replying to a query whether the bird flu situation was under control.

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On other side,

As concerns over bird flu mounted, delegates to the CPM's state conference had a treat at high tea on Wednesday: chicken kebabs and fish rolls.
The bird flu alarm was first confirmed on Sunday evening, coinciding with the launch of the party conference and the administration went into day-long meetings the next day. For three days, afternoon tea meant assorted snacks.
But, on Wednesday, as if to show solidarity with the thousands of small farmers who are resisting the culling, the cooks hired for the conference were asked to make chicken kebabs.

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I guess people has taken the Ministers Message to heart

Not willing to incur any financial loss because of the outbreak of bird flu, well-networked cartels in West Bengal are smuggling out chicken and poultry products from affected areas, even sending consignments to neighbouring states to minimise the loss. This could be one of the reasons why the deadly virus has spread so fast — from one district in the beginning to almost eight districts now.

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CPI(M) attacks govt for aiding Israel for Iran!!

The CPI(M) on Monday attacked the government for ''collaborating'' with Israel and accused it of aiding Tel Aviv's military efforts by launching its spy satellite.

Reacting to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launching an Israeli spy satellite from Sriharikota on Sunday, the party said the government was maintaining a ''shameful silence on the criminal blockade'' by Israel of Gaza strip and said instead, it was ''collaborating with Israel to enhance its military capability.''

The launch of Israeli satellite TECSAR ''shows how India is aiding the military efforts of Israel. The satellite has a capability to track activities in Iran and the region.''

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I wonder why is CPM not criticising their Mentor China for their Military support to Pakistan. A recent news:

Pak's new port has strategic implications for India: Naval Chief

The Gwadar port being built by Pakistan with Chinese assistance in its Baluchistan coast has serious strategic implications for India, according to Naval Chief Admiral Suresh Mehta.
"Being only 180 nautical miles from the exit of the Straits of Hormuz, Gwadar, being built in Baluchistan coast, would enable Pakistan to take control over the world energy jugular," he said while delivering the T S Narayanaswamy Memorial lecture in Chennai on Monday night.

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Nero fiddling while Rome burned

The Bird flu Situation in West bengal is Worsening. It is continuing to spread among the birds in West Bengal and the state capital may be the next target of the deadly virus. It has been identified in seven districts with Bankura and Malda the latest to be affected.

Chickens have also died in two other districts, South 24 Parganas and North 24 Paragnas, which are close to the state capital. 

Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said the State government’s delay in taking “appropriate action” led to the rapid spread of avian influenza. Even now culling in the “unusual mortality” districts was “slow” and should be speeded up.

However, All this has not slowed down CPM in conducting State Conferences. Instead of providing leadership to solve this highly dangerous situation in West Bengal most party leaders are busy with 22nd CPM West Bengal State Conference. 

In Kerala, The kerala Budget has been put off by three months due to Party Meetings!!!

Kerala CPM Internal Tussle and Naxal Shadow

Further to the recent arrest of Peoples’ War Group leader Malla Raja Reddy, Kerala Police has become Hyperactive in the hunt for "Naxal and Maoist" elements in Kerala. A great move. But one wonders why Kerala Police is not showing same enthsiasm to crush Jehadi Elements. As during the same time a suspected Hizbul Mujahideen activist Altaf Ahamad Khan who was wanted in connection with several cases relating to terrorist activities was also captured from Kerala.

The fight in the CPM between VS and Pinnarai Faction is suspected to be one of the reasons behind the police’s hyperactiveness in the name of Naxal hunt. Those who are close to Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan inside and outside the party are upset over the increasing isolation of their leader and his inability to oppose the forces of capitalism which control the party. There are indications that a few in the SFI and the CPM are getting closer to outfits whom the party labels as ‘left extremists’. This link may get stronger if VS is completely marginalised after the Kottayam meet of the party.
Recently, The students union of the Guruvayurappan College here invited CPI-ML central secretary K.N. Ramachandran to inaugurate a seminar recently, shocking the SFI leadership.  The VS loyalists at the Government College, Madappally, openly challenged the official faction of the SFI with the behind-the-curtain support from the Kerala Vidyarthi Sanghatana, the student wing of the CPI-ML.

The official faction of the CPM is aware of the possible danger of the disgruntled elements in the party forming a common platform, joining hands with the ‘left extremists’. There are many common areas between the pro-VS forums like the Adhinivesha Prathirodha Samithi, Padom Prathikarana Vedi andthe ‘left extremists’ who take aggressive stand on issues like ADB loan. In fact, CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan himself had branded the pro-VS group as ‘left adventurists’.

It is suspected that the CPM is using the police to create a terror and to break the possibility of an alignment force against the party.  Such a possibility could be nipped in the bud by branding these forces as Maoists and creating a confusion among those who are willing to co-operate with the group.

CPM Speak and Iceberg!

Only one-seventh to one-tenth of an iceberg's mass shows above water. Similiarly, Only one-tenth of real intentions of CPM is visible from Statements of CPM.

Recent statement of CPM on "Allaince with Congress" is an Ideal Example!

CPI(M)'s draft political resolution for the ensuing 19th Party Congress makes it clear that it will not enter into any alliance or united front with the Congress. What it was left unsaid is that even for current Loksabha Election CPM didnot have Allaince with Congress. They had Electoral Understanding a suitable word to fool the cadre in Kerala and Bengal.

The draft essentially means that for 2009 Loksabha Elections also CPM will have "Electoral Understanding" i.e seat sharing etc with congress and again they will try to weild power without responsibility!

This was clear from the fact that when asked on supporting the Congress-led coalition after the next Lok Sabha elections CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat remianed Non Commital!! his answer was

"We still want a secular government at the Centre. But we also want a
government which does not follow such economic policies. How we can achieve
that, we will have to wait and see,"

Which means We will try our best to sleep with anybody and hang on to power!

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CPM fights for Chinese companies!!

CPI(M) has called for easing of restrictions against Chinese Companies operating in India on security grounds. CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat himself had approached Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demanding a review of the decision.

His Major Demands are:

1. He wanted the Visa curbs on Chnese workers eased

2. Review of black listing of certain Chinese Companies

My questions to CPM "THE WORKERS PARTY". If we remove Visa curbs on Chnese Labour what will happen to Workers in india. I guess CPM need to make their stand clear whether they stand for Chna Workers or Indian Workers.

Then What happened to all those opposition on MNC's coming to India? or is it that companies from China are not MNC. and what happened to your "sound Byte" about Indias Souverniety would be under threat in case of Nuclear Deal etc!!!

http://www.financialexpress.com/news/Ease-curbs-on-Chinese-cos-in-India--CPM/262536/

New Wine in Old Bottle

We had great expectations from the current CPM Govt. led by V.S. since he came to power riding on the crest of the wave of promising to hand-cuff the ice-cream parlour and other sex-scandal perpetrators and parade them in public.

However, it seems there is a big gap between promise and Practice. One such example is appointment of T.P. Dasan, former Mayor of Kozhikode, a Pinarayi man as President of the Kerala Sport’s Council. TP Dasan was the 11th accused in the infamous ice-cream parlour sex scandal. CPM suspended Dasan for the sake of records and after a decent interval his suspension was revoked with an obliging media keeping mum on it.

Then came the appointment of A. Akbar as Managing Directorship of Kerala State Financial Enterprises. A. Akbar is a former top official of the Bank of Kabul in Afghanistan. There are allegation of his connections with Taliban and Al-Qaeda during his CEOship with Bank of Kabul.

It seems now we have a DUMMY PM AND A DUMMY CM!!

CPI(M) Palestine Fund

CPI(M) has collected more than Rs 26 lakh towards supporting the Palestine Cause. The biggest contributions of which came from the Left strongholds of West Bengal and Kerala. The fund collection is continuing at a “hectic pace” and would soon touch Rs 1 crore.

Of Course, if CPM can give 1 crore for a distant and obscure country, we would have expected a big support during the calamities in India. The tragic story is CPM didnot donate a single cent to support the People in India who were effected by Major Calamities in India.

Guess Vote Bank has its gains.

We are against Muslim fundamentalists: Left

"We are against Muslim fundamentalists" Says Brinda Karat. Who can blame Ms. Karat for not being informed about the CPM's Partners, afterall she is busy with her yoga and promoting friendship with Pakistan when free etc.

For Ms. Brinda Information, CPM Parners in Various States are:-

Kerala: Jamaat E Islami(mother Organisation of SIMI), PDP (of which Abdul Nasser Madhani is founder)

Tamil Nadu: IUML

She also went on to add "It is objectionable to oppose singing of Vande Mataram. We are opposed to the stand of Muslim fundamentalists... But at the same time we are also opposed to the stand of BJP and Shiv Sena on the issue". Wow Wait a Minute, now I am confused Does she want people to Sing Vande Matram or not. This is called Sleeping with everyone. If you are Pro Vande Matram, the stuff opposing Muslim Fundametalism is for their consumption But if are Against Vande Matram, Stuff mentioning BJP/Shiv Sena is for their consumption!!!

Give up Cola to Drink Whiskey

Kerala Government has banned distribution and production of colas. Great initiative, considering the risk it posed to public health due to high levels of pesticide in them.

"We cannot make our people drink poison and pesticide just because we want industries here. This is not the policy of LDF," said Vaikom Viswan, LDF convenor.

What he conveniently forgot is Kerala is the biggest consumer of alcohol in the country with an average consumption of 8.3 litres per person per year. Five years ago there were only 14 alcohol outlets. Today there are 350 all run by the state owned Kerala Beverages Corporation. the government is minting money from sale of alcohol, Rs 2000 crore a year to be precise.

I do dislike them with a reason

 Someone send me a one line note saying "Man, you really hate LEFT"

My answer to him is yes. I do. I am of strong belief that LEFT is one of the most dangerous hidden dangers for this nation. What else can we expect from an Ideology which is foreign to this nation. Their Flag is foreign, their ideology is foreign, their Idols are foreign!!

It is the "curse" of this nation that we donot remember and learn from History. If we evaluate the history, there is enough pointers there to forewarn us:-

- Till late LEFT didnot consider India as a Country. They considered us a Union of nations.

- For them their party interest is supreme. They will sacrifice any number of countries with out a blink  if it can Help the cause of their party. It is not coincidence that they sided with British during Quit India movement, with Chinese during 1965 agression of China, with Indira during Emergency. Its their Misfortune(Good fortune of this nation) that they betted on the wrong horse. 

- At one level they say they are secular but have no shame in taking the support of Abdul Nasser Madhani who is prime accused in Coimbatore Serial Bomb Blast and Jamaat e Islam(mother of SIMI). They call themselves secular in Kerala and fight with IUML, but support same IUML in Tamil Nadu. They created the only Muslim Majority District in India - Malapurram, Kerala.

- They claim as Non Corrupt but supported the worst corrupt regime of Laloo Prasad Yadav

- They Support the Communist Principles in Centre but in West bengal they have one of the most agressive Capitalist Policies

and so on..

Buddha's Jehad

This morning I was shaken by the intensity of Emotion in Buddhas speech when he said the following:-

“It is a victory of evil over good, over right-thinking people. This happens at times. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee thundered, shaking in rage at Writers’ Buildings

Describing his fight agaiunst Evil he says, “If you want to call it a jihad, go ahead and write it. ”

I was gladdened that there is at least one politician who is taking the problems in India seriously and decided to get to the root of this so called "Axis of Evil". But Imagine my shock when I realised that its a storm in teacup. The Battle which Buddha was referring was battle over the Cricket Association of Bengal. The Axis of Evil was none other than Jagmohan Dalmiya. It seems Jagmohan Dalmiya has done what the Opposition in the state couldn’t do in the last two elections: beat a candidate handpicked by Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee.

Well I will wait for another day!

Happy Birthday Mr. Castro

Its celebration time in communists offices allover India. After all its world’s longest serving leader Fidel Castro's 80th Birthday.

India's top two Communist leaders, CPI(M)’s Prakash Karat and CPI’s A B Bardhan who never tire of singing praises of Cuban leader Fidel Castro and his battles with the US, are heading for Havana. Over a thousand guests are expected to attend this Left jamboree.

‘‘We are keen to know what the Latin Americans have to say about us (the Indian Left),’’ says Bardhan. Also he proudly claimed that Cubans are so resolute that they are not shattered by the succession of hurricanes and storms, a resilience that’s is not even shown by the US.

I am sure Mr. Burden(no i know my spelling) and Mr. Karat would use this trip to propagate the idea of democracy among their communist counterparts. Afterall, Thats what they were doing in Nepal.

This time two months ago
Following is the article from CPIM's People democracy.

Excerpt from the Article:

Yechury On Nepal’s Journey To Democracy

CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Sitaram Yechury, who has been facilitating the parties in Nepal to reach an understanding, has expressed confidence that the country’s journey towards democracy will be fructified in the coming three-odd months.

The Annual Planning Conferences

I being from the bad world of Corporate am quite used to the annual ritual of planning conferences. These is the annual ritual in which we travel to the rarefied rooms of company Headquarters. Here we renew our pledge of loyalty to the corporate plans and unveil our plans for their approval.

During for past few days, I grew curious whether our political parties have such an Exercise. After few hours of research, I came up with some interesting information

- Every year BJP have their annual Baithaks with their mothership - RSS to gets their plans approved by the Wise men there. I am sure poor BJP might be facing some tough time explaining why some of their guys were naughty.

- In congress case, it was much simpler. As in this case, Mother was the ship.

- I was in for a surprise when I realised that Mr. Karat just came back from eight-day tour of China during which he discussed party-to-party ties and Sino-Indian relations. He also visited the “party school” of the Communist Party. I am sure he might
have taken some good lessons in the school. I was wondering what kind of crash course he might have taken? I being a optimist, I am sure the chinese tutors would have given him lessons in Nationalism(No marks for guessing which nation).

CPM to raise fund for Palestinian cause

GULBARGA: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has launched a fund raising drive to help the Palestinians in their hour of crisis and has called upon people to generously donate for the same.

My eyes almost turned moist at the noble deed from a political party in India. I am sure the External Events is consuming so much energy of CPM that they might have missed minor events in India like 200 deaths in Mumbai Bomb Blast, Mayhem in J&K. If aware, I am sure they would have arranged similar Fund raising drive for the Lakhs killed in J&K or 100's killed in Mumbai. Though I am not sure how it might have effected secular fabric of CPM

The Ultimate LIP Service for Dalits

Excert from marxist Thought Paper "A MARXIST PERSPECTIVE ON CASTE OPPRESSION"

The thoroughly reactionary varna and caste system has hounded Indian society for thousands of years. The varna and caste system was sanctified by Hindu religion and by Vedic scriptures. The worst affected by the caste system and its social oppression have been the dalits, or atishudras, or scheduled castes. The stories of Shambuka in the Ramayana and of Ekalavya in the Mahabharata are classic testimonies of the non-egalitarian nature of Hindu society in ancient India.

Reservation should be extended to dalit Christians.

1. LAND REFORMS: The central and state governments must immediately set in motion a process of land reforms whereby land will be redistributed to the landless agricultural labourers and poor peasants gratis. All loopholes in the present laws must be plugged. All schemes to reverse land reform legislation and give away land to multinational corporations and big business houses should be scrapped forthwith.

2. INTERCASTE MARRIAGES: Intercaste marriages should be encouraged by giving special subsidized housing

Such Scandelous Propoganda should be exposed and resisted. This is effort of CPM to divide and rule the Hindu Society

- On one level CPM reminds us of Shambuka & Eklavaya. But it conveniently forgets that Maharshi Ved Vyas wrote the Mahabharat(which also contains the Baghavad Gita) was the son of a fisher woman ; Valmiki who composed the Ramanaya was once a highway robber and was from fisherman’s caste ; Chandragupta Maurya of the Maurya Dyanasty originates from Muria, a tribe which used to collect Peacock (Mor) feathers ; and today’s Amrita Anandamayi, who hails from Kerala’s fishermen caste. All of them were sudras. That means two of the the greatest scriptures were written by sudras, the greatest of Emperor in India was emepror. So is now one of the most reverred gurus.

- On reservation of Dalit Christians: This is really Outrageous. It was my understanding that there is no Dalits in Christianity. Christianity sought converts on the plea that it did not discriminate between believers, and hence low caste believers would loose the social stigma of their original caste. Dalits who were lured to the Christian fold to better their social, economic and educational status should rethink their move and return to their traditional cultural moorings for such benefits

- On Land Reforms: CPM should put money where there mouth is. In west Bengal, right at the moment Salem group of Indonesia,is being given 5,000 acres of Agriculture land in Molla’s home district South 24 Parganas, similiarly 1200 acre being given to Tata Motors, 250 acre had been given to car-makers Honda Motor COmpany, 297 acre to Maruti Udyog and 250 acre to Toyota to set up manufacturing units in other states.

- Intercaste Marraige: I have not seen more Hypocrisy than this. EMS Namboothiripad was the Father of CPM in India. Namboothiripad is a brahmin caste. His both Children Married other brahmins. This is same for other leaders in CPM. Every leader of CPM is calleds by his caste

THE ULTIMATE IRONY, IN 100 YEARS OF CPMS EXISTENCE IN INDIA NOT EVEN A SINGLE DALIT HAS BEEN APPOINTED TO POLITBURO OF CPM

Is CPM promoting Armed Struggle in India?

This is excert from one of the news letters of CPM. It is published in Peoples Demoracy Vol. XXV August 26, 2001.

Excerpts:

We lost 13 ZPTC and 64 MPTC seats comparing with the past elections. We had alliance with the TDP in the past and won 358 MPTC and 28 ZPTC seats. We contested 1073 MPTC and 80 ZPTC seats in these elections and prevented the contest with the Congress(I) in 17 ZPTC seats and 233 MPTC seats of this. We bagged only 103 MPTC and 3 ZPTC seats. The rest of the seats were bagged by contesting with the Congress(I) and the TDP. These were the first elections after 1999 Assembly elections. Though our party’s popularity had grown with the agitations conducted recently, the results revealed our weakness in transforming our popularity into votes due to lack of party machinery in all places.
Though very limited number, these are certain instances when our comrades worked contrary to our political line. Complete details are yet to be reached.
It is clear that out party mass base is still weak. Only with the unleashing of militant struggles in a big way, our base will be strengthened.

In the publication, CPM gives a clarion call to launch a "MILITANT STUGGLE" to increase their presence in AP(can we say capture power?). If SIMI, LeT can be banned for launching Armed struggle against union of India why is CPM spared?

Not so Proletariat afterall

The groom arrived in a cream-coloured Mercedes to the stunningly decorated venue. Over 1,500 guests were entertained by a rock band from Delhi and singers from Mumbai and served a dozen different cuisines.

At the tony Harsheela Resorts spread over 8 acres in Mullanpur, on the outskirts of the city, a wedding planner from Delhi choreographed a grand wedding.

The catering team from Chandigarh had 250 cooks and waiters

Guess Whose Wedding was it.

Sandeep Singh, grandson of Harkishan Singh Surjeet grand old man of India�s proletariat party

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Guess Who is the IT minister in kerala.

YES NONE OTHER THAN THE GREATEST ACHUTHANDAN.

Lets see his qualifucation to head IT Department:-

- 8th Failed

- The guy who led agitation to Ban Computers from Kerala

- The guy who led agitation against Internet City