Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
The 40th anniversary of the draconian
Emergency has become an occasion for those who seek to distort Indian
history, to (mis) appropriate the united people's struggle against it.
For my generation, this struggle for restoration of democracy was a
period of political maturation. Many of us embraced politics as a
consequence, visible cutting across today's political spectrum.
This
commitment to create a better India is distinct from those who inherited
family political heirlooms, or, joined politics to share the spoils of
crony capitalism that the trajectory of neo-liberal economic reforms
engenders. This Modi government is pursuing the such policies more
aggressively. While it took nearly seven years for exposure of major UPA
scams, this Modi government needed just one year and is brazening out
the current (Lalit) Modi-Gate exposures.