Not a single day passes without the political bosses of the two Communist Parties in India i.e. CPI (M) and CPI proclaiming that they would be forming the Third Front in the next Parliamentary Elections.
One does not know whether to laugh or cry over the predictions made by the Communist Parties. In the last general elections held in 2004, the CPI (M) could secure only 5.66% votes, while the CPI could manage only 1.41% votes.
Notwithstanding their pathetic performance over several decades, these communist parties go on dreaming about forming a government at the national level. After being badly mauled by the Trinamul Congress in the local body elections held in Nandigram and Singur in West Bengal, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) it appears has decided to join hands with any political party for the sake of increasing its vote share.
For this purpose it has openly declared that it would jettison all its professed principles. In Andhra Pradesh, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) had opposed the Chandra Babu Government in 2004, by calling him an agent of the World Bank and accused him of adopting anti-peoples policies. In the year 2009 the very same Communists have embraced Chandra Babu Naidu, even though Naidu has not changed any of his ideas.
This is because the Communists know fully well that they will not even get their measly 5% odd votes if they contest on their own. That is why they will align with any political party which may seek alliances with it. If the Communists contest on their own they will not even get 4% votes, as was the case in the Assembly Elections of Andhra Pradesh held in 1999. In the said Elections, the Communists together polled 3.32% votes and won only two seats out of 294. Both the seats were won by the CPI(M) and the CPI could not even get a single seat. So much for the popular support of the Communists!
Apart from aligning themselves with Chandra Babu Naidu, who supported the communal BJP / NDA rule, the Communists have now gone one step further and aligned themselves with a Muslim Extremist Party headed by Abdul Madhani, who was an accused in the Coimbatore Bomb Blast Case. No doubt, he was acquitted, but in our country only 5% of the Criminals get convicted. At this rate, the Communists will not hesitate to align themselves with the Taliban for getting a few votes. Such is the depravity and lust for power of the Indian Communists.
It appears that, the CPI(M)/CPI’s hunger for power is no less than that of the mainstream political parties like the Congress or the BJP. The tall talk of high and lofty principles by Sitaram Yechuri, Karat, and Bardhan is nothing but political hogwash.
It is not understood as to why our TV channels give so much of importance to the leaders of the Communist Parties. It would be appropriate to call the Communist Parties, as Television Parties, as their leaders are found for ever in the TV studios and not with the masses.
Let us hope that the electorate would give a decesive verdict in 2009 to one or the other major political parties, so that, the country can be saved of the political black mail by the Communist parties and their so called Third Front.
