The BJP was doubtful whether their high tech propaganda, with attractive slogans and offensive propaganda with Mahajan and Jaitley at the helm, would fetch them enough votes. So it sent out Advani on the Rath Yatra. It is well known that the BJP was successful in reaping votes irrigated with blood in the violence that ensued in the aftermath of Advani’s earlier Yatra. Though the BJP may desist now from indulging in such crude violence for the present, it wants to get votes by invoking the fear of the earlier Yatra.

The Congress, which ruled this country for nearly 50 years, has only served faithfully imperialism, feudalism and the comprador bureaucratic bourgeoisie. It is only the Congress, which initiated the present LPG policies, which the present BJP government is implementing more aggressively. The CPM has intensified its attack on People’s struggles. Mulayam Singh Yadav has decided to cling to power even by aligning clandestinely with the BJP. All the ruling parties — whether all India ones or the regional ones like the RJD, BJD etc — have proved to be birds of the same feather during these elections. In semi-feudal semi-colonial countries real democracy does not come to the people through Parliamentary elections. It is possible only by destroying this system through armed revolution.

These elections are taking place in a new situation of the worldwide offensive by imperialism, particularly US imperialism, against the revolutionary movements, national liberation struggles and all types of people’ struggles in the name of containing the threat of terrorism in the wake of the September 11 attacks on the WTC and Pentagon. This rhetoric against so-called terrorism is directed at the growing people’s upsurge against imperialist globalization and unbridled exploitation of the world people. It is meant to counter the growing rebellions of the oppressed people and oppressed nations all over the globe, which are going to be the dominant feature of this century. The BJP at the Centre and TDP in AP are going for early elections as part of this global campaign against terrorism and are seeking to legitimize their brutal state terror and the pro-imperialist policies of Liberalisation, Privatization and Globalization (LPG).

The US imperialism — the No. 1 enemy of the world people — is trying to control the economic resources of the world, and to establish its own supremacy on world markets through its military domination. It is trying to make Central Asia its main focus area of attack and is also trying to consolidate its hegemony over South Asia. US army officials are directly guiding the deployment of the RNA in Nepal to counter the strategic offensive on the RNA by the Maoists. Pakistan has opened wide its airports for the US occupational forces after the recent negotiations between the Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf and the American president, the main enemy of the humanity, George Bush. Pak and American armies have launched a big offensive in the border areas in the name of fighting the Al-Queda. The Indian ruling classes have been vying with Musharraf to prove that they are more loyal than their Pakistani counterparts. They were getting ready to send Indian troops to Iraq but had to postpone this due to people’s opposition to it and in view of the present parliament elections. People have to unitedly fight the BJP which has declared an offensive war on the people. Without any relation to who wins or looses the elections, it is our agenda to fight the forces who are repressing the revolutionary struggle.

In the past five years the imperialist puppets like Vajpayee-Advani at the Centre and Chandrababu Naidu in AP, have been in the forefront in promoting the agenda of LPG on the one hand, while carrying on fascist repression to suppress every people’s movement on the other. The deputy Prime Minister declared recently that left extremism is the main danger to the country’s internal security, that the government will take steps at par with Kashmir and will take on the burden of the expenditure incurred by the state governments. Apart from this, all other movements waged against LPG and other anti-people policies of the central and state governments and the anti-imperialist, anti-feudal struggles are facing police lathis and bullets. The people know very well, that repression, and as part of it killings of revolutionaries, nationalities and democrats is the reality, and development is a hoax.

The fascist communal BJP put forth slogans like the so-called development, stable government under Vajpayee, making India into a superpower and a hype is created about so-called feel good factor. The actual position of the debt/deficit is hidden behind a concocted GDP growth rate. The fact is the fiscal deficit has shot to Rs.93,656 crores and the trade deficit to Rs.30,300 crores, creating a record. Though Ram Mandir and Hindutva are temporarily relegated to the background, it is clear that the fascist Hindutva forces will implement their real agenda once they come to power.

The World Bank stooge and dictator Chandrababu Naidu went a step ahead by declaring Naxalism as his principal agenda in the election, and unleashed a barrage of lies that the CPI (ML) [People’s War] has become a hurdle to development and is continuing its killing spree of its activists. The TDP government has launched a repressive campaign on the CPI (ML) [Janashakti] also in the past few years. Hundreds of its activists have been killed by the TDP in fake encounters. The same type of concocted lies are being floated against the MCCI and PW in Jharkhand and all over India. The BJP and TDP are seeking legitimacy for creating the worst ever blood-bath by suppressing the revolutionary movement led by the People’s War party, MCCI and Janashakti parties after regaining power.

It is meaningless for the BJP, TDP, CPM, Congress and other parties to make a hue and cry that their leaders are killed by naxalites and nationality rebels as it is they who have made it their task to capture and kill all the rebels whether they are Maoists or those struggling for the self determination of their nationalities. Those murderers who drown the struggles in blood have no right to question the counter violence done against their violence.

Till today, the land question is not resolved and there is a vast majority of the rural poor has no land. Workers have no work or guarantee to their job and the overwhelming majority of the masses has no livelihood or any basic amenities. Pauperization of the vast majority of the peasantry and mass suicides has become a common phenomenon. People are increasingly realizing that they have no other alternative but revolution. Repression cannot break the determination and courage of the struggling people. Protracted people’s war is the only path to seize political power, whereas the parliamentary path is not the solution for the oppressed masses and nationalities.

In the annals of the communist movement in India, the CPI and CPM have time and again back stabbed the people’s struggles. Especially the CPM has been in power in West Bengal for a long time and are implementing imperialist policies with zeal and it took upon itself the agenda to curb people’s struggles from the days of Naxalbari to the present day. Some parties who still claim themselves to be Naxalites have removed armed struggle from their agenda and have taken up the parliamentary path as their path. These parties have to be exposed politically among the people. We have to campaign in a big way that the people will not get state power by participating in parliamentary elections but that political power only flows through the barrel of a gun. We call upon the people of India that their immediate task is to mobilize more and more into the armed struggle and intensify people’s war throughout the country.

Today armed agrarian revolution is advancing in various states, where the toiling masses are waging war against the semi-colonial, semi-feudal system. People’s War is advancing, showing the alternative path to the parliamentary path in Andhra Pradesh, Dandakaranya, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, Orissa and West Bengal etc. We appeal to the workers, peasantry, intellectuals, women and other patriotic toiling masses to boycott the fake elections and to join the on going revolutionary movement to overthrow the three big mountains (imperialism-comprador bureaucratic bourgeoisie-feudalism) weighing down on the Indian people and to establish a New Democratic India. This is the only means to ensure real freedom, democracy and political power to the oppressed people of India.