Saturday, March 08, 2008

The Indian Left takes a 'Right' turn

The Indian left has baffled me for a long time. They do not possess any of the qualities ascribed to a left wing organization. They do not stand behind the poor people, neither do they worry about the working class masses nor stand to promote liberal ideas. In fact the Indian left has all the traits of a proper right wing conservative organization - parochialism, narrow minded bigotry and an irrational mindset. Karl Marx will indeed be twirling in his grave at the sight of the Indian left.

As their recent threat to the government on the 'operationalization' of the Indo-US nuclear deal showed, they are not even interested in the good of the nation. The Indo-US nuclear deal attempts to unshackle India's growth potential by providing it new avenues of energy generation. The deal will also officially end India's isolation from the International nuclear community thereby allow India to join a select band of countries which posses the power to head the world order in the 21st century. Simply put it is a blank cheque footed at India's door which would eventually free it from the morass of Third worldliness.

Alas, our good comrades in the left neither see nor hear reason and are hell-bent on keeping India bound against the cobwebs of history. The left's opposition is devoid of any reason and can only be seen as its attempts to embarrass the Indian government - and hence India - in front of the world community. This also generates lot of doubt as to the true allegiance of the Left - Is it pro-India or pro-China? Simply because the non-implementation of the deal will please the Chinese as much as any one as historically China has always tried to reign in India's ambitions.

Well if the current trend of events continue and if the Indian Left is allowed to take a 'Right' turn and derail the Nuclear deal then it will be a national tragedy. A tragedy for which the left will have to give an explanation to future generations of Indians.

1 comment:

Harsha said...

Prem... nicely put. But, I disagree on some counts.

I agree Left is not good, and certainly I'm no leftist.

But, certainly rejecting/delaying the Indo-US nuclear ties in a way is a good thing... one should understand that every nation has a right to refuse/accept anything based only on their needs, interests and a NO is not ruled out even if it concerns US.

US has long become accustomed to YES answers.. will be good to get an occasional NO to make them spice up the finer points (as Left points out).