Partha Pratim Mazumder
(The writer can be reached at parthapratimmazumder1988@gmail.com)
CPI (Maoist) scouting for urban and intellectual youth to fill ranks – Economics Times, September 8, 2018
It is a fact that in Kargil war, we lost our 530 soldiers, but in the fight with Left Wing Extremism (LWE) we lost more than 3,000 common men (as per data of MHA). So pathetic for our democracy! In my research I found some similarity among Left ideologies.
The life of Naxalism runs over 50 years of unrest, murders, destruction, rapes, arson, loot and killings of innocent children. It was lack of political awareness of our leaders, lazy intelligentsia, corrupt fourth pillar, a dysfunctional system or a combination of all these that kept feeding this monster called Naxalism. Today it has emerged as India’s biggest internal security threat. For beginners, Naxalism, also known as Maoism, has always been celebrated, patronized and protected by the Leftists and liberals. How can a violent movement survive for 50 years in a free, democratic country which is one of the most promising and peaceful players in a globalised world? Leftists, by definition, are those who question the establishment. It’s another thing that today they are a corrupt establishment, and it is practically impossible to raise voice against oneself. Hence, they are cocooned in a regressive, violent ideology with no option but to play along with their movement which has been entirely taken over by disguised terrorists, Maoists and all separatist and anti-national forces. A lot of these Leftists and liberals have succumbed to the Naxal pressure and work as their ‘front organization’. What doesn’t one understand is why they like to call themselves liberals when they are engaged in humanity’s most selfish acts?
Most importantly, students ‘volatile nature’ works as arms and ammunition’. Now, anyone who has been raised in a city is going to laugh at such a far-fetched planning. I fully sympathize with all those misguided people who lined up to sign for ‘Urban Naxals’ club for they do not know better. They think ‘Urban Naxalism’ is some movement to dissent. No, it’s not.
Urban Naxal now becomes ‘invisible enemies’ of India. ‘The cadres have to be regularly sent to cities to impart necessary ideological and political education & training. If part-time (PT) or professional revolutionaries (PR) are exposed due to the mistakes of the cadre, then they should be immediately sent underground’. The tactics state that they form a Front Organization (FO) in urban areas like Kabir Kala Manch which may appear to be a cultural organization but its main objective is to recruit, train and attack. All this is achieved by extorting poor Adivasis to the tune of Rs 110 crore. One of their new tactics, since the advent of social media, is to ‘dimlight’ whenever caught. This means that dim the light so much that everything becomes blurred. You can’t identify anyone. This is achieved with the help of ‘media mobilizers’. Who are these media mobilizers? You will find them running small media houses without any journalistic competence, public figures with strong ‘influencing potential’, legal activists, student leaders, et cetera. They come with many faces. Feminism and freedom of speech are safest. You don’t need much academic knowledge as ‘both these issues are rants’. Also, issues of feminism attract a large number of people who help in ‘mass mobilization against the enemy (India). You may find these ‘mobilisers’ cracking jokes on social media platforms, writing poetry and running feminist campaigns. Sometimes, you may pass them off as a Congressi or a Sanghi or just a harmless troll. But they aren’t what you look like. Their task is to continually question Indian culture, Indian definitions of family and society, and attract young followers in the name of liberalism. If you study their own lives carefully, you will find yourself researching some of the most illiberal and dangerous people.
Modern, educated and stressed city dwellers want absolute freedom from stress. That’s why they get ideologically attracted to anyone who champions ‘teenager-like freedom’. When these innocent city-dwellers find these influencers supporting an ‘Urban Naxal’, they naturally assume that the state is oppressing that Urban Naxal. What they never get to know is that the ‘Urban Naxal’ was planning a war against India. In this week’s case, they were plotting to kill the Prime Minister of India. What these people don’t know is that they can’t find one person whose life has been improved because of Naxalism. What they don’t know is that by signing up for #MeTooUrbanNaxal, they are encouraging India’s armed enemies. They are also unaware that by signing up they have made terror funding a bit easier. What they don’t realize is that by indirectly and unintentionally supporting India’s enemy, they have become ideological co-conspirators of waging war against India.
I’d like to believe they are innocent and don’t understand the gravity of the situation. And that’s precisely what Urban Naxals want. Confused, unaware, misguided city dwellers, who can be ‘drugged ideologically’ so that they don’t even think once when ‘revolutionaries call for action’. This is an age-old tactics. When a thief is identified, start calling everyone else a thief, and some time the police won’t be able to differentiate between a thief and the innocent person in a sea of humans. So how do cops catch the real thief? Catch the person who screamed first. In the case of dangerous #MeTooUrbanNaxal campaign, someone should find out who initiated the process of ‘dim lighting’. The real clue lies there. What happened earlier was very unfortunate and a sad for Indian democracy. I am sure most of them were an innocent and unaware lot. I am sure that most of these people might regret later. We mourned when we lost India to the Moghuls, when we lost to the British, the French, and the Portuguese, when we lost, after Independence, and when we lost to a corrupt dynasty. For the last thousand years, because of the direct and indirect link of some dishonest and irresponsible citizens, we have been losing and regretting.
(The comments made in this article are purely personal)