The Communist Party of India (Marxist) in Kerala, now out of power in the State, is showing its true colours, soaked in the blood of its political rivals. Even as the people were in shock over the brutal daylight killing of dissident Marxist leader TP Chandrasekharan in north Malabar area, Idukki district secretary MM Mani declared publicly that not only had the Marxist party murdered several inconvenient party leaders in the past, it would continue to do so in the future. He even boasted that they had a list of such potential victims. “In 1982, what had we done? We had prepared a list.” Mr Mani named the people in the list and detailed how each one in that list was done away with. That the Marxist leader was publicly taking credit for such killings and also warning that his party would kill more if need be, reveals the extent to which violence is being used as the weapon of choice by the CPI(M). TP Chandrasekharan was one of the some prominent leaders of the CPI(M) who was having second thoughts regarding their affiliation to the party after it lost power mostly due to a series of scandals and highhandedness by its leaders including instances of land grabbing by the party men. Police investigation revealed that four attempts were made by the killer gang but only the last one succeeded. The investigation has already revealed the communist party’s role in the dissident Marxist leader’s death. The attackers were not themselves Marxists; they were the mafia who are very much part of the Kerala landscape. The police have also traced the killing to a conspiracy hatched in the Marxist leaders’ conclave. It also found that a local party leader took charge of the operation after the first two attempts failed. But the event should not be seen in isolation. In any case, the party’s Idukki district secretary has already exposed the core of violence around which the communist party has been functioning. North Malabar, where the CPI(M) is the strongest, has had a long history of political violence, most of which can be traced back to the party. The history of the party has recently been revealed in the autobiography of the former Marxist leader Madhavettan. Even before Independence, it seems, the party was planning to build itself in the Malabar region of present day Kerala through the murders of rival political leaders. At the top of the ‘list’ that the communists prepared was the renowned Gandhian of Kerala, K Kelappan, also known as the Kerala Gandhi. The list also included top Congress leader K Madhava Menon who was a Minister in the Congress Government under C Rajagopalachari when Malabar was part of the then Madras Province. Though these proposed killings were not carried out for one reason or the other, the stream of violence flows through the history of the party’s political growth in Malabar. In the beginning — that is, soon after Independence when the Congress was in power — some attempts were made by the Congress to counter the Marxist violence but New Delhi soon gave up. There were clashes between the Muslim League and the CPI(M) for some time as both were building their power base but that too abated after the League split with one faction going with the Marxists for some years. Finally, it was the RSS that organised the people to stand up to this reign of violence. Consequently, there was the most shocking incident of an RSS organiser, who was also a teacher, being cut to pieces in his class in front of his students by the Marxists. Today when Kerala remembers the TP Chandrasekharan incident where the killers hired by the Marxist party murdered the dissident communist in broad daylight, the decades old martyrdom of the RSS activist comes to mind. As the CPI(M) came to power in Kerala, alternating with the Congress, the entire State Government machinery has been bent to serve the Marxist interest and protect its cadres. The favourite plan of action has been to weaken the prosecution intentionally or threaten witnesses produced by the police and thereby secure acquittals in court. Of course much the same history is repeated wherever the communists have ground level organisation. The Marxists were in power in West Bengal for 37 years continually. They captured academic institutions, Government organisations, the police, and student unions by force. Only the courage and commitment of Mamata Banerjee and her Trinamool Congress has finally freed the State from the clutches of the Marxists. In addition, to the Marxists’ systematic use of violence to impose their will on the common people in Kerala and West Bengal, we also have the violent anti-State campaign that the CPI(M) had launched in the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh soon after Independence. Statelevel action initiated by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel put an early end to the movement but top leaders of the CPI and later of the CPM like Sundarayya, T Nagi Reddy, and others were honed in this organised violence and bloodshed. This, after all, has been the pattern of communism not only in India but all over the globe. Mao Tse Tung’s communist movement in China had resulted in the killing of at least 30 million Chinese during the ‘cultural revolution’ as admitted by some of his successors themselves. At present in China, where 60 years of Communist rule is being celebrated, there are several intellectuals who claim that thecount of victims from the Red massacre was far more than 30 million. In Soviet Russia, when NS Khrushchev came to power in a brief period of liberalism, he himself revealed that millions were massacred under Joseph Stalin. The staged trials of other communist leaders by Stalin are now well-documented. History also reveals that Lenin brought Stalin from Georgia into the top leadership of the Communist Party for his expertise in eliminating rivals. Stalin finally eliminated almost every single member of the group that had worked with Lenin to capture power in Moscow. They were all individually and collectively victimised through staged trials and then executed without any ceremony. So, if Ms Banerjee is now digging up unmarked graves in West Bengal while the UDF Government in Kerala is planning to prosecute Mr Mani, it must be remembered that the trail of blood leads back to the founding leaders of the communist parties whether they be in India, China or
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