CPI-M a prisoner of its past perfidy, says RSS

New Delhi, Nov 18: Alleging that the Communists refusal to back India on the border dispute with China is due to their being a prisoner of the past, the RSS today lashed out at the CPI-M leadership for not changing with time.

The Organiser, the mouthpiece of the RSS in its editorial alleged the CPI-M had appropriated 'perfidy' as a guiding principle and followed its founding father, E M S Nambooduripad, an 'absolutely confused person on Indian position on Sino-Indian border dispute'.

Drawing comparison between the statement of EMS in 1962 and CPI-M Chief Prakash Karat in 2006, the paper observed ''Some people never change .. the CPI-M has not changed, it has not grown : rather it is in a time warp, a prisoner of its past.'' In 1962, EMS refused to condemn Chinese aggression on India when he said it was a 'conflict between Socialist China and Capitalist Indian state'. The party used to hail Chinese leader Mao as 'Our chairman in party plenary.

Now Mr Karat, his successor in 2006, reacting to Chinese Ambassador to India claiming the whole of Arunachal Pradesh as Chinese territory said, ''We have our understanding of the border and they have their understanding. So there is a problem and the two sides are trying to settle it.'' Clearly, it is difficult for the CPI-M to stand for India, through it stands on Indian soil, the paper lamented in its latest issue.

The paper said another CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechuri, does not even think the Indian government is correct in saying that the whole of Arunachal Pradesh belongs to India. China is already illegally occupying 38,000 sq km of Indian terrirory on Kashmir, which Parliment has vowed to take back.

Ever since the UPA government assumed office, the Communists were 'more explicit' in their its 'old fascination' for China and had been brazenly using their leverage to further Chinese interests and investments as they did for Nepalese Maoists, the RSS alleged.

''Patriotic political parties in the country should openly condemn and disassociate themselves from the 'stooges' of the regimes that crave for territorial expansionism,'' the paper suggested.

UNI

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