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RSS chief's diatribe exposes parivar's frustration: CPI

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, OCT. 23. A day after the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief, K.S. Sudarshan, launched a broadside on the Communists, the Central Secretariat of the Communist Party of India (CPI) today said the diatribe was testimony to the frustration within the Sangh Parivar in the wake of successive defeats in the Lok Sabha election and the recent Maharashtra Assembly poll.

`Favourite targets'

In a statement issued here, the CPI said: "It is known that the Communists and the minorities have been the favourite targets of the RSS ever since its birth. But the tone in which RSS chief Sudarshan raved and fulminated against the Left during his Dasara Day speech only exposes the utter frustration of the Sangh Parivar after its successive defeats at the Centre and in Maharashtra and the collapse of its dream castle."

The Sangh Parivar knew only too well that the Left was the most consistent and relentless fighter against its ideology of communal fascism, its reactionary politics of serving the interests of the landlords, the monopolists and the imperialists, the CPI said and asserted that "the Left is the most formidable obstacle in realising its ambitions."

`Slanderous attack'

Commenting on Mr. Sudarshan's attack on the Left rule in West Bengal while addressing a rally in Nagpur on Thursday, the CPI said: "Mr. Sudarshan indulged in a slanderous attack against the Left rule in West Bengal, but is unable to explain how the Left Front has been consecutively winning six times in the polls."

The CPI further described as "particularly vicious" Mr. Sudarshan's attack on the Urdu language. Pointing out that Urdu was born and nurtured in the Gangetic belt, belonged to the Indo-Aryan family of languages, was spoken by crores of Indians and was among the languages specified in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution, the CPI said: "To call it `the language promoting vivisection of the country' reveals total ignorance both about linguistics and politics of the country."

`Ultra-Hindu nationalist'

PTI reports from Kolkata:

The CPI(M) today said his comments had once again established him as an "ultra-Hindu nationalist." "Sudarshan has merely repeated what Mr. Advani had said some days back. He has, however, violated the limits of political decorum by describing the Communists as followers of Marx and Macaulay," the party State secretary, Anil Biswas, said in a statement here. "By these comments, he has once again established himself as an ultra-Hindu nationalist. Yes, we believe in Marxism and we are proud of it," Mr. Biswas said.

`False information'

On Mr. Sudarshan's comment that the Leftist Government in West Bengal had not been able to transform the State in its 27 years of rule, Mr. Biswas said: "No one in the State will believe this and that is why we are running the Government here for the past 27 years and will continue to do so for many more years." He said the RSS chief's comments on the State's development were based on "distorted and false information," adding that "people replied to these allegations in the last elections as the result of which the RSS-backed BJP could not win a single seat from the State." The RSS, he said, had not been able to damage the secular fabric of the country owing to the opposition to its ideology by the Marxists from the very beginning.

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