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Volume 3, No. 12, December
2002
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On Armed Clashes Between
the Revisionist CPI (ML) (Liberation) and CPI (ML) (People’s War)
(From a talk between
Parkash, Secretary of Magadh Regional Committee of People’s War and
the revolutionary
magazine Mukti Marg)
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( This is the first part of a two-part
article, translated from Telugu. The second part will appear in the Jan. issue
of the magazine. In this section we shall see the reforms taking place under the
banner of privatization. In the second article we shall look at the so-called
schemes for women — Editor)
MM: Why are clashes going on between CPI (ML)
[Liberation] and the CPI (ML) [People’s War]?
Parkash: There is always a struggle between the revolutionary current and
the revisionists and will remain in future too. This is a historic fact. When
the struggle is at a lower stage, it remains on a political and ideological
level, but as the struggle advances the revisionism degenerates into reaction
and openly sides with the ruling classes.
As
far as the current clashes go, the Liberation has become panicky due to our
advances in Bhojpur and Punpun, (which are considered as strong bastions of
Liberation) it has started attacking us and launched a vicious propaganda
campaign against us. They have initiated killing of our activists. We are
compelled to answer them.
MM:
Liberation says that you have initiated killings and they are forced to act in
self-defence?
P:
Liberation has a mastery over lying and distorting facts. You can yourself
conclude from the last few clashes. They made tirades against a people’s court
organised by us in Imamganj because the court had secured justice for a girl
belonging to the Bhumihars against molestation. Form a casteist angle they
organised a propaganda campaign that we were collaborating with the Ranveer Sena
and the administration. We too countered them politically. But when they
attacked our squad last year in Punpun we fought back wherein they lost eight
men and many arms. They tried to convince the people through lying that we had
attacked their conference and killed eight of their men. This time too the
killing of our activists Babbu Anand Singh in Bara Gaon on June 22, 2002 and Dev
Pujan Yadav on June 23 compelled us to retaliate. One was killed while going to
ease himself in the fields and the other when he was riding a tractor.
MM: They say that Babbu Anand Singh belonged to the Bhumi Sena?
P:
This is nonsense. You can only laugh away or feel angry. Let us talk in some
detail to know about Liberation’s falsehood and intrigue.
Theoretically, we can prevail over the caste-based armies with two methods.
Firstly, by defeating them through arms; secondly, by winning over their ranks
through raising class-consciousness. To be successful in revolution, we have to
win the support of lower and middle strata and a part of the rich peasantry.
With this understanding our party has been carrying on the class war throughout
India . We are able to expose internal contradictions of the caste armies and
win over their lower and middle support base to our side and at the same time,
we are carrying out continuous struggle against the criminal elements.
Firstly, the Liberation has cleverly accused us of siding with the Bhumi Sena in
their main organ and other papers. Everyone knows that the Bhumi Sena was almost
liquidated around 1984-85 due to the onslaughts of the revolutionary movement
and it has been dumped into the dustbin of history. Should not a political
process be started with the people (the support base) associated with this army?
Secondly, they accuse that our Vrind Singh, Babbu Anand Singh, Vijay Singh etc.
belong to the Bhumi Sena. We would like to ask a question here. Did the
Liberation ever launch any struggle against these people in the last 17-18 years
after the collapse of the Sena? Never, and in not any form. Because it was their
area of operation. But when we extended to Punpun and Bhojpur they started
propagating against us and started their attacks.
When
the Bhumi Sena was launched, Vrind Singh was only boy of 15 or 16 years of age.
If you start identifying the offspring with the crimes of their parents, then, I
am afraid, many leaders of the revolutionary movement will have to be declared
counterrevolutionaries.
About Vijay Singh, lies cannot go further. Vijay Singh is a poor peasant
belonging to Godhna (Masaurhi) and is active in our mass organisation. He led
the village people in an attack on Beni Singh, the founder of Bhumi Sena and a
tyrant. He had to remain in jail due to that for many years.
Pappu Singh has been added to their list just because of his neo-Kulak
background. What is their crime? But the Liberation must know of the background
of many of their own leaders in the highest committees. For example, what would
you say about Pawan Sharma who owns 60 bighas of land, is the President of Bihar
State mass organisation!
Babbu Anand was working in our organisation for the last five years. Now after
his killing they are taking up his twenty years old association with the Bhumi
Sena when he was its supporter. In fact, the liberation has nothing to do with
Bhumi Sena or any other Sena. They brand every Kurmi as Bhumi Sena’s supporter
and every Bhumihar as Ranveer Sena member, except their supporters .
MM:
They accuse you of allying with the Ranveer Sena and police.
P:
You are not mentioning the alliance with the RJD. Shamelessness has no limits.
Who is carrying on struggle for the seizure of state power in the country? Which
organisation is banned under POTA? Whose activists are being killed in false
encounters? Which movement is being suppressed under the direct leadership of
Home Minister Advani through constituting a Coordination Committee of seven
states? What else can be ridiculous if an organisation is accused of
collaborating with the RJD and the police when it is exposing the election
politics of parliamentary parties by staying away from the lures of power, loot,
corruption and boycotting the elections and carrying on the revolutionary line
of people’s war?
Who
did conduct the peace talks with the Ranveer Sena? We, or they? Who did give the
RJD the certificate of a progressive force serving the interests of the backward
classes? It is another thing when their own MLAs joined the RJD and the
opportunist alliance of the Liberation and RJD broke off soon after. Similarly,
who did ally with Nitish, the chief representative of reactionary kulaks of the
Kurmis and the communalist forces?
It
only exposes their utter bankruptcy when they appeal to the Central Committee of
our Party to dissolve the Bihar State Unit because we were allegedly cooperating
with the RJD, the private army and the police! While the truth is that, the
state power is making plans to finish off our Party. All our mass organisations
are banned under POTA. Our guerrillas are being killed daily. By the way, have
the liberation theoreticians appealed to their cherished friends the — CPI (M) —
for dissolving their Bengal State Unit because their unit there is implementing
all the policies of liberalization and have turned the state into a police raj?
MM:
Liberation says that you have no work in Bhojpur?
P:
Anybody can testify independently by taking a round of the area. We are working
in Sahar, Sandesh, Agiyan, Jagdishpur, Charpokhri, Tarari, and around Ara,
despite their attempts to stop us. That is why they killed a number of our
activists in the initial phase and beat up our student and youth propaganda team
and snatched away their belongings. But the people who were fed up with their
capitulationist policy towards the Ranveer Sena and their opportunist
parliamentary politics slowly started coming to us. The recent action of our
squad in Mahdanpur and the courageous attack on the Pawna police station has
shown our presence to the world.
MM: Mahdanpur encounter is being described as a collaboration between Ranveer Sena,
administration and you. A Liberation investigating team found that your squad
escaped while getting cooperation from the state.
P:
Some people seek truth from facts others construct facts to fit into some
preconceived things. The said encounter started at 3 PM and went into the middle
of night until 1 AM. Our squad was surrounded from all sides and put up a brave
fight. Four of our comrades were killed while police lost one man and two were
injured. At last, our squad broke open the back wall and escaped. This is the
reality.
Now
only the liberation can tell why the police did not send a message to the squad
to escape before 1 AM. Moreover, how the police could send a message inside the
house in the running battle and why they did not let the squad flee from the
front side if they wanted it to escape? As far as relationship with the Ranveer
Sena is concerned, they are citing the example of our martyred comrade Roy. It
is true that the said comrade was a supporter of the Ranveer Sena in its earlier
days and he used to harbour casteist feelings. But the goons of the Ranveer Sena
misbehaved with Roy’s family members and when the family opposed them for their
conduct, the Sena imposed economic blockade against Roy’s family. So, Roy turned
to us and joined the fight against the Sena. Our squad was in the thick of a
planning to attack the Sena when this incident happened. The liberation suffers
from shortsightedness in its investigation and coming to conclusions. They are
prejudiced and form opinions due to their preconceived assumptions. We don’t
know how their prejudices will make them conclude about our symbolic and revenge
action on Pawna police station. Is it too a part of an alliance with the police
and RJD?
MM:
There is an accusation that you kill elected representatives of the people and
famous leaders?
P:
How much the elected representatives are the representatives of the people
everybody knows. The fact is the Liberation has made this point after the
killing of mukhya Rajnandan Singh. We have carried this action in a planned
manner, active. In fact, this elected represented had played the main role in
the destruction of our squad at the hands of the police in Suppohli. He acted as
a police agent. The State Committee member of our youth organisation Vinay
Paswan, a handicapped person, was killed with his active collaboration. We had
tried to eliminate Rajnandan in a previous attempt also but he managed to
escape. It is interesting to note that Liberation’s mukhya’s nephew Satyender
Singh was the ring leader in Liberation’s massacres at Tiskhora and Daryapur and
he was responsible for the murder of dozens of liberation supporters. When a
Liberation squad had caught hold of Satyender, it was Rajnandan who secured his
release.
However, the way Liberation is accusing us of collaborating with the private
armies it itself has hundreds of such activists and leaders in its own ranks.
After the peace talks with Ranveer Sena, it has secured the support of many
mukhyas in elections. We can furnish a list of such collaborations. We can also
issue a booklet in this respect if necessity arises. Yet, in our political
analysis, we don’t term Liberation as an edition of the private armies. It will
be a wrong method of analysis.
MM:
Did you attack ordinary dalits in Bara (Naubatpur)?
P:
This is another half-truth. In fact, the supporter of Liberation had abandoned
the village fearing retaliation after the killing of Babbu Anand Singh on June
22. Persons from three families had participated in Babbu’s killing. We will not
spare them. But with others, we have no enmity. In fact, the people have become
panicky due to liberation’s propaganda lies. The people of the area had
spontaneously attacked the houses of the Liberation supporters after the death
of Babbu Anand Singh. They had pelted their houses. It is wrong to characterize
it an organised action. Similarly, it is baseless to accuse us of attacking the
supporters of Liberation with the help of Ranveer Sena under the alleged
leadership of Varind and Babbu Anand Singh as well as the attack on the
torchlight procession. In fact, our people had fired in air in self-defence to
scare away the organised attacking crowd. Had we fired on the procession many
people would have been wounded. No one was injured.
The
long chain of lies is part of a well-planned policy of the liberation to justify
their armed attacks on us. Till now we have lost our supporters Arun Singh—Godhna,
Yogender Singh—Vamachak, Vijay Singh—Baliari, Rakesh Kumar—Jagdishpur, Devender
Singh—Sikandarpur, Ganauri Singh—Kazichak, Ram Narain Singh—Kevrha, Gazal Vind—Badhar,
Jitender Yadav and Ramanuj Yadav—Bajitpur, Judagi Yadav—Bhusenchak, Tuntun
Singh—Suppohli, Krishna Devi—Chhata, Vinay Paswan—Bhakhara Chakya, Shivratan
Singh Goayechak, Manohar Ravidas—Baldih, Dinesh Yadav—Bhusenchak, Surender
Singh—Ghorhuan.
MM:
Can we stop theses clashes, as it is usually the supporters who suffer?
P:
These can be easily stopped if Liberation stops armed attacks on us. However,
when they fail to struggle against us politically they resort to lies and armed
attacks. This is their history.
The
second method can be the way we have adopted in Aurangabad and Jahanabad by
organising the masses under our party and defeated the political opportunists
and revisionists the same can be applied here. We believe in competing
politically. Our fight is against opportunism and revisionism and until we
achieve our objective of uprooting this evil, we will not sit idly. One of the
main dangers to the Indian revolution is from opportunism and revisionism. When
our party says that it will uproot revisionism,—it means destroying it
politically and ideologically. Our party has developed by struggling against
opportunism and revisionism and we will continue it. But if they chose to attack
us with arms, we will fight back. Yet, we will try not to target the people who
are with them and their activists.
MM:
Both of your organisations speak contradictory things. What is the reality?
P:
The people in struggle areas know the truth. We are ready to cooperate if some
neutral institution or a group of people comes to investigate the truth. We
appeal to all the supporters, intellectuals, and journalists to come and
investigate. Whether we have made any alliance with the private armies or it is
a concoction. Who is allying with the government officials and the
administration? Who is taking recourse to armed attacks?
MM: Is not it an irony that when fascist forces and imperialism are targeting the
Indian people the forces that swear by the red flag are attacking each other?
P:
I am afraid, you are seeing all the red flags as one. Merely taking up a red
flag does not make one a representative of revolution and the people. That is
why the people have not been able to recognise the restoration of capitalism in
Russia and China.
We
opine that the people of the world and our country are facing the biggest danger
from imperialism and fascism and there should be a broadest front against this
danger. Our party initiated a move to build a broad front to oppose imperialism
and fascism and invited the Liberation to join despite all our differences with
it. But it ridiculed our initiative by posing false accusation against us. This
only exposes their anti-people character. In fact, their central leadership does
not want to join in a front with us. Meanwhile, we continue to expose lies and
opportunism of Liberation and take the truth to the people.
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