tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3464520582626879960.post2568350425423743043..comments2024-01-09T23:51:22.626-08:00Comments on ghulamkalam: Role of the Left in Punjabਗੁਲਾਮ ਕਲਮhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07297188853560061487noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3464520582626879960.post-81982801786823759002013-01-10T07:58:18.475-08:002013-01-10T07:58:18.475-08:00Well, Mr. Sidhu, you are fully entitled to your bi...Well, Mr. Sidhu, you are fully entitled to your biases but you should not kill facts to excuse them. Go to any "left" program, you would find books corner. There you can find enough material which tells about left position on Gandhi, Hindutva, Communalism, Congress, police brutalities, state sponsored minority massacres and anything you mentioned in your article and you would find it to be diametrically opposite to what you have portrayed it to be. Specifically, the left unequivocally condemned state repression and opposed it and it is matter of record, though only if one wishes to see it.<br /><br />Moreover, you did not tell us why should left support communalism - be it minority one? Khalsitan was a fascist movement that was meant to serve ruling class interests which it did profoundly. The left opposes Hindu communalism but not from the plank of minority communalism but from the position of real secularism. <br /><br />This article, like many others on this forum, narrates empty perceptions, without providing any factual support to them, though understandably, because it lacks any.<br /><br />Sudeep Singh<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3464520582626879960.post-21375848845215317362013-01-08T09:39:12.470-08:002013-01-08T09:39:12.470-08:00I have read this article twice and have found same...I have read this article twice and have found same thing with repetition in each paragraph again and again and that is Indian State is a hindu state and Left has aligned with the ruling parties in defending that concept of state.The article gives the impression that writer is pro Khalistani and that is why he sees everything else part of hindu ideology. As a journalist he has not mentioned a bit about the cruel part played by Bindrawala in Punjab and his followers after his death till 1993. He did not mention that khalistani movement was created, supported by the ruling class of this country and Bhindrawala was also a by product of them and also khalistanis were sleeping at congress leaders residence after killing inocent people. Left, over all those years, criticised both the terrorists and the state terrorism. but this does not mean that they should support separist and khalistani fundamentalists over those issues and that is why over 200 left prominent leaders were killed by khalistanis and that loss was one of the biggest loss to the left. Writer might be in New Delhi in those days when terror ruled Punjab at night. Hindu state is not a correct definition of Indian state which has alligned with global corporates and their govenments in exploiting the masses irrespective of their religion and colour. This terminology weakens our collective fight against those policies and economic order which has again push us back to those british times. Left has not marginalised due to the reasons given by Jaspal Singh but two major factors have played a decicive roles One is departure of CPIM and CPI from the Marxist Leninst ideology and more reliance on parlimentary activites than non parlimentary activites election aliances with congress and other ruling regional parties and also the extreme left anarcist Positions by Naxalites groups over years and continous division in all those groups. Jaspal Singh Has not presented any thing news just a khalistani agenda and hate to the hindu religion. no doubt he has a good command over english but same thought in each paragraph.<br />Harinder HunalPalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02701671305473845814noreply@blogger.com