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West Bengal Communists and social networkingDr S Chakraborty

A P C Roy Polytechnic

Kolkata

West BengalIndia

I was 12 years old when communist party of India Marxist (CPIM) capture power in

West Bengal at the leadership of Mr Jyoti Basu in 1977. Like my father, I enjoyed that

night when voting results came as my father was strongly against congress party due to

torture on people during Emergency-The regime of Mrs. Indira Gandhi. The euphoriaabout communists lasted in me upto 1988 when I got admitted into graduation course.

Though some of the atrocities conducted by communists stuck the news at that time like

cruel burning of 11 Anandamargis (a religious group) on a street and genocide in

Marichjhanpi(West Bengal).In 1989, I came to know few things about CPIM party structure.

1) Hierarchy of CPIM party:

POLITBURO-CENTRAL COMMITTEEW.B State committeeDistrict

committeeLocal committeeBranch committeeMahalla and People

committee( apolitical)Upto branch committee all members are political and mahalla and peoples committee are

so called apolitical.

2) Share of resources

The resource is generated by branch committee and local committee by differentmeans which I will describe later on. Each committee keep with itself 50% of

generated resource and the rest 50% is passed to the next higher committee.Meanace of income by local committee and branch committee

Subscription from local people

Cut money( upto90%) from different Govt. of India social projects like mass

education, 100 days work for poor people and so on.

Extortion of money from building promoters in cities.

Cut money from Municipality and village development work(50%)

Money earned for negotiation between land-lord and tenant and family disputes

Help people to pay less corporation tax and other taxes and thereby earn money.

Lavy from people who get job under CPIM help.

For any kind of activity by which people earn livelihood they have to paycommission.

For smooth transaction of money communists formed peoples organization at

every service and industry sector.Incidentally one cant show a single peoples activity from where the communists

did not extort money.

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3) Measures taken by communists to correct people who declines to pay or protestagainst the system:

The communists used different tactics other than to beat the man or harass him

openly

Practically the local apolitical committees of CPIM who play a key role in social

networking. These people publicly show that they are apolitical but passes

information of common people to party. Each such member takes care of 10

common people. For this reason they get extra fecility from Government.

By this way 15% active communists take scan of the whole population of West

Bengal. The total scanning was completed in 1988 under the chairmanship ofthen CM Mr. Jyoti Basu.

The rest is easy. If a common people tries to revolute different issues start tohappen in his life, like

Problems within familyDivorce between husband and wife

Problems in his workplace

Court caseDeprive from rights etc.

The more stringent measures were:

Make him gradually isolated from the societyYou being a common people cant guess where it is wrong

Most deadly weapon to humanity

One particular way the CPIM controls individual is to create a situation so that hebecomes a mental patient. Suppose you are walking through the street and as you pass

three group of people, they are discussing some secrets about you. You just imagine what

is your condition if this situation persists for one month. Process to win elections

Within 1992 almost 90% of the common people come to feel what is happening . So they

start daring CPIM and during elections they avoid to go to the booths helping the CPIM

cadres to rig the polls at most places of West Bengal. If some one dares to go to thepolling booth he finds his vote already polled.

During rigging they keep in mind that above 90% polling in favour of CPIM may be a

cancellation of election process.

During election where a group of people revolt the party used arms.The apolitical stooges of CPIM found in the voting line was indicated by the party as free

and fair election.Capture the juditiary

The party , when first came to power started politicizing school and college

students. In some cases of Law college teachers, students all do politics. The

examination was fair but if you investigate you will find that the questions are

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out and there is no evaluation. These law students, after passing out as lawyear

join political organization for better carrier and when some of them becomes

judge they persue politics silently for better transfer and better fecility. Kolkata Highcourt chief justice was also found in a land scandal involving the then Chief Minister

of West Bengal.

Money Management

The total money gathered by CPIM Politburo per year from west Bengal is 2000-

2500 million dollars. This huge money is managed by a few fund managers in a

distributive way firstly to evade tax and to avoid vigilance. In the process money wasalso deposited in the name of pets.

Opposition party

The opposition party leaders are fully purchased as they enjoy all the class A

fecilities of Government. Whereas most CPIM leaders used to maintain low profilelife style.

CPIM is doing all those things for last 34 years in West Bengal in the name of

democracy and socialism. They call it the formation of scientific society.

Indeed it is scientific.

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