This is a great shame for a "leftist" Government. So take a look at current Taslima episode that is exposing pseudo secularism of Indian parties:
1) CPM recommended Central Govt not to extend her visa after Oc 2007t! Anybody will call CPM a leftist force any more? It is Congress high command which took the decision of extension. Not that they are very secular but they didn't want to gift a issue to BJP either.
2) I am simply astonished by the fact that Buddhadev didn't issue a single sentence to protect Taslima. However, we are fortunate that our PM Monmahan issued a strong statement against Islamic vandalism stating he will not allow such fanaticism and Indian Govt. will protect Taslima.
Politics is an engineering of possibilities. What we have seen in last couple of days, Congress ministers like Priya, Pranab and our PM Monmohan showed strong resolve against fanatics where as our top CPM leaders, with exception to Subhash, showed no sympathy for Taslima's cause.
Why all of a sudden Congress is becoming protector of secularism? What's smelling wrong for a party known for its Islamist appeasement?
Well primarily couple of reasons---
1) In the past we have seen Monmohan and Pranab are men of character--they can be criticized but their strong personality can not be ignored. Congress leadership of Monmohan, Chidambaram and Pranab are highly educated and seasoned politicians. Comparatively in CPM, educated elites like Ashok Mitra, Biplab Vattacharya, Ashim DashGupta are nobody-party is left in the hand of Buddha and Biman whose educational background and professional achievement is no way comparable to Monmohan, Pranab and Chidambaram. Hence CPM leadership of the top feels highly insecured as they have no existence of their own outside state power. This is not the case with Monmohan--even if he is removed from PM, he is a very well known Economist--so is Chidambaram who is a Harvard MBA and used to be highly paid consultant to several top corporates. If Buddha is removed from CM position, he is nobody but a small time writer. And Biman? Beter not speak about that. Feeling of insecurity compells a politician to compromise with principles-that's what is happening with CPM.
2) Rahul Gandhi and the young leadership of Congress [like Sindhia] are educated mostly in the west--they don't like communalism. Question is -who is running Rahul? He or his mentor? One can blame him, but he openly at least had the charisma to speak against communalism of Hindu and Muslims.
3) Congress has to gain back Bihar,Madhyapradesh,Rajasthan and Gujrat--Muslims in these states have to vote for them without any alternative because else choice is BJP or its cohorts. That will never happen. So, Muslim vote bank for Congress is safe and but they need Hindu votes to win back these states. Under this condition, giving allowance to Muslim fanatics means clean sweep by BJP.
Clearly at present, Cong in center is run by a better leadership than CPM. Once again, we are seeing the old truth-educational & professional attainments of the top leaders make a big difference.
Thanks
Biplab
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