naresh kapadia
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presents
E Awareness
January 17, 2010July 8, 1914
Jyoti Basuon his life and politics
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Kolkata: Veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu, died here on Sunday, 17Jan 2010. He was a man of strong views and never hesitated to speak
his mind. Here are some of his comments on his life and politics:
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On childhood
'My mother came from an upper
middle-class family, they were
well-to-do landowners. My father,
,
relatively lower middle-classbackground.'
'I was 10 years old. Talk of
revolutionaries and the fight forindependence was in the air.'
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In London
'I was initiated to international politicsin London. Entire Europe was restive.
Fascist Mussolini had wrested power in
Italy.
'We formed the `London Majlis' and I
was its first secretary. The idea was to
generate public opinion for the cause of
Indian independence and collect
subscriptions.'
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On return to India
' .
attach importance to this. I knew there was along and difficult political agenda ahead.
Anyway, I got married.'
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Political life
'It never occurred to me that I would
one day become an MLA, but the
par y oug o erw se. a oabide by its directives.
'My very first election as a
candidate gave me a taste of what
bourgeoisie elections were allabout. It was baptism by fire. But
all's well that ends well.'
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On undivided CPI
' .
Between September 1948 andJanuary 1949, I worked openly in
trade unions, maintaining the
communication links with our
leadership in hiding.'
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Emergency rule
'(Indira) Gandhi was scared. Her
authoritarianism knew no limits.Thus she chose the option which all
dictators faced with a critical
situation coupled with the fear of
losing power usually do: she opted
to usurp all the rights of the people.'
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Left Front government
'It was exactly at 10.30 a.m. onJune 21, 1977, that the first
Left Front ministry was sworn
in... Land reforms were our
topmost priority.'
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On Sino-Indian war
India and China went to
war over the border
dispute in 1962. Thereactionary forces led by
the Congress cried for
war and inflamed
passions. We said that
talks were the only way;the reactionaries called
us `anti-nationals' for
this.'
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'If the centre had been
keen and serious
about a political
On Operation Blue star
settlement to thePunjab problem, then
this operation could
have been avoided.'
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On Babri Masjid razing
On December 6
1992, barbarians
demolishedBabri Masjid. We
stood
dishonoured in
front of the
entire world.'
Prepared by: Mahendra Joshi
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