Struggle Against Bulldozer Raj Need of the Hour
The Sampoorn Kranti Diwas this year became the occasion for a massive Mahagathbandhan convention in Bapu Sabhagaar, Patna. A charge-sheet was released exposing the NDA misrule along with a call for district level demonstrations on 7 August.
On 5 June, 1974 Patna Gandhi Maidan was witness to the historic youth assembly from where Jai Prakash Narayan had issued the call of Sampoorn Kranti or Total Revolution for all-out systemic change. The movement was sought to be crushed by clamping down Emergency, but democracy and the people of India prevailed in the end.
In 1977, when Emergency was lifted and elections held, India witnessed the formation of the first non-Congress government at the Centre. Bihar too witnessed the rise of a non-Congress regime under the stewardship of Karpoori Thakur.
Much water has flown down the rivers of Kosi, Ganga and Sone since then. Many of the participants of the JP movement have now taken the 'JP to BJP' route and are busy legitimising and facilitating the fascist offensive of the Sangh-BJP brigade and the Modi regime.
The Mahagathbandhan of Bihar, the alliance of the RJD with the CPIML and other parties of the Left, has the potential to counter and defeat the fascist brigade with a powerful unity and agitation of the fighting forces of Bihar.
The convergence of the historic traditions and trajectories of the revolutionary communist stream rooted in the Naxalbari upsurge and the socialist stream backed by the Sampoorn Kranti legacy is the need of the hour. Intensify the fight against fascism.
CPIML Bihar State Secretary Kunal said that the commemoration of 5 June Sampoorn Kranti Diwas charted a road map for coming struggles against Bulldozer Raj, inflation and unemployment. A Charge Sheet against the Nitish government was issued by the Convention of the Mahagathbandhan parties held in Patna. He further said that the The Niti Ayog report has exposed the pathetic conditions in the state, with Bihar's dismal performance on all indicators. 51.9% of the state's population is poor according to the poverty index. Institutional corruption and loot are reaching new record heights every day. There is a long list of government-protected scams. Transfer-postings and appointment of VCs have become a new source of corruption. Bulldozers are standing at the ready to raze down huts of Mahadalits and rural poor. Mob lynching, crime, violence against dalits and women, eviction of dalits and poor from their land, poisonous liquor massacres, destruction of youth through drugs, unemployment, back-breaking inflation, migration of workers, agrarian distress and destruction of environment are the markers of this regime. The need of the hour is a massive struggle on the lines of '74 against BJP-JDU's repressive anti-people repressive Bulldozer Raj. The Mahagathbandhan reiterated this pledge on the occasion of Sampurna Kranti Diwas.
