Varavara Rao terms elections a sham
HYDERABAD: Denouncing parliamentary form of democracy as a convenient system propped up by the ruling elites to exploit the masses, revolutionary writer Varavara Rao has appealed to people to boycott the ensuing elections.
Speaking at a Meet-the-Press organised by the Telangana Union of Working Journalists here, he said real democracy was only possible with revolution rooted in class struggle and in sync with innovation.
Taking swipes at TDP, Congress, TRS and YSRC by branding them as bourgeois parties, Rao said that elections were for a mere change of guard and would not benefit the commonman.
He hailed self-rule of tribals in Chattisgarh forests and urged the masses in the mainland to draw inspiration from them. 'Education and health for all. Right to form unions and associations and to support the working classes, giving right to everyone to express their opinions, this is what is required to run a government. This is what is happening in tribal areas of Chattisgarh and they are building a new society.'
With a new state of Telangana becoming a reality, he urged the upcoming governments in both the states to lift the ban on the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and mass organisations in 2005 and to disband the Greyhounds.
He urged the central government to revoke the joint capital status given to Hyderabad and to stop construction of Polavaram irrigation project.
'What right has the people of the mainland got to decide the fate of tribals? Polavaram project has to be stopped immediately to prevent the numerous clusters of tribal villages from submerging. The demands of tribals are as legitimate as those of Telangana people,' he claimed.
He accused Narendra Modi of having a unholy nexus with numerous companies. 'The huge support to Narendra Modi reminds us of the support Adolf Hilter had garnered in the 1930s,' Rao said.
News Posted: 8 April, 2014
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