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Sahgal and CPI(M)

Sir, — It is heartening to note that the CPI(M) has reprimanded the Union Minister, Pramod Mahajan, for casting aspersions on Lakshmi Sahgal, who had fought valiantly for the country's freedom. The politburo of the Communist Party of India, as a faithful soldier of international communism, had held the Indian National Army in contempt, treating the soldiers as collaborators with Nippon on the ground that the USSR fought against the Axis powers. And Capt. Lakshmi Bai, commandant of the Jhansi Rani Regiment of INA, was not an ordinary soldier to be dismissed as an innocent collaborator.

It is good that the CPI(M) is rewriting its history.

G.S. Gnanam, Chennai

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