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Anand Mohan Sahay in Patna
The Communist Party of India-Marxist Leninist (Liberation) will invoke the Bihar model of red resistance to the Gujarat challenge of saffron subversion.
CPI-ML general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya said this while addressing the seventh congress of the party in Patna in Bihar.
This is first time the CPI-ML, which came over ground about a decade ago, is holding its party congress in Bihar.
It emerged as the biggest leftist force in Bihar, leaving behind traditional parties like the Communist Party of India and the Communist Party of India-Marxist.
Nearly 800 delegates and observers from all over India, including delegations from a dozen foreign countries, are taking part in the congress, which concludes on November 30.
Bhattacharya said that the fascist threat to India is backed by an alliance of the ugliest elements of Indian history and society and the most obnoxious designs of global capital and US imperialism.
He said that the demolition of the Babri Masjid was the first alarming announcement of the arrival of the fascist threat in India. From Ayodhya to Ahmedabad, the threat has covered a considerable distance.
"The saffron brigade today is displaying a new level of aggression, the AK-47 of the Vajpayee-Joshi-Advani vintage giving way to the AK-56 of the Modi-Togadia-Singhal variety," Bhattacharya said.
He said that the Sonia Gandhi-led Congress can only think of offering some competition in Gujarat by hiring the services of ex-servicemen from the Sangh [RSS]."The Vaghela show in Gujarat is a clear example of the kind of competition that the congress can offer."
"Can politics in India be allowed to be reduced to a competition between Modi's BJP and Vaghela's Congress," he questioned.
Bhattacharya felicitated foreign delegates by giving them handicrafts of Karbi Anglong in Assam, Jharkhand and Madhubani paintings of Bihar, and selected works of Vinod Mishra, former general secretary and architect of the party.
International delegates who were felicitated included Jill Hickson from Democratic Socialist Party of Australia, Tone Buberg from AKP, Norway, Nay Myo Hlaing from Communist Party, Burma, Abdul Majeed Kanjoo from Seraiki National Party, Pakistan, E Thumbeah from New Democratic Party, Sri Lanka, Yubraj Gyawali from CPN-UML, Nepal and Anu Mohmmad from Democratic Revolutionary Alliance, Bangladesh.
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