Realism of Naxalism
Naxalites attacked a camp of Eastern Frontier Rifles in West Bengal last week and killed more than two dozen jawans. This was not only the killing of EFR jawans, but the killing of the police system of India that day. EFR is a para military force like CRP, BSF, ITBP, CISF, SSB etc. A quick analysis of the ghastly incident makes it clear that the bullets sprayed on the jawans were police-bullets, not looted but supplied to the naxal outfits by the men of the West Bengal police. In a way the EFR jawans were killed by fellow personnel of the West Bengal police. At the time of the incident also, the men of the Bengal police were sitting idle as silent spectators. Local people openly say that not only bullets, but the details of the routine and road map of the EFR camp were leaked by the men of West Bengal police. The basic infrastructure of the internal security system of our country has totally collapsed. The security of common people is the prime and foremost responsibility of civil police. But the entire nation knows what they actually do. Politicians have made the civil police their slaves and the civil police also enjoy licking politicians' boots. The burden of internal security comes down on the Army or the para military forces, which were primarily meant to deal with emergency situations. The civil police have become 'Politicians' Police'. Men and officers of the civil police can be seen at public places doing services for their political lords – clearing the way for the carcades of netaji or giving undue security to netaji or doing kitchen job for netaji or pleasing netaji's children or carrying vegetables for netaji or brokering for netaji… the civil police have become politicians' pet and more than that – which can well be understood without saying. The Indian government has failed to take steps to overhaul the policing system that facilitates, encourages and protects the corrupt and criminal activities of politicians and the rich people today. For decades, successive governments have failed to deliver on promises to hold the civil police accountable for abuses and to build professional, rights-respecting police force. The failings of state civil police forces that operate outside the law, lack sufficient ethical and professional standards, are the by-product of the police-criminal-politician nexus. The politicians always produce data – mostly fraudulent – to claim that India is getting modernized, but the civil police have been left to continue to be like medieval slaves. Several police officers on condition of anonymity admit that on the direction of politicians they routinely commit abuses. One officer said that he had even been ordered to execute an 'encounter killing'. The practice of taking any individual into custody and his extra-judicial execution is a commonly known habit of the civil police. Our archaic police laws enable politicians to interfere routinely in police operations, sometimes directing police officers to drop investigations against people with political connections, including known criminals, and to harass or file false charges against political opponents. In 2006, a landmark Supreme Court judgment mandated the reform of police laws. But the government has failed to implement the court's order. India's status as the world's largest democracy is undermined by a police force that thinks it is above the law. As for the anarchist naxalites, they proclaim a doctrine of class struggle and indulge in brutal killings of sepoys, mostly coming from lower socio-economic class. Have you heard of naxals ever attacking a capitalist, netaji or a bureaucrat? It must be understood that naxal outfits in jungles have created a jungle-raj. Their so called kranti is nothing but a spate of extortion. That is why they do not target industrialists, politicians or bureaucrats. The naxal movement revolves around 'either donate or protect' formula. Children of senior naxal leaders study in top public schools in India or abroad. These leaders have bank accounts in India and abroad. Posh flats in big cities serve as home for their spouse or their spouses are enjoying the 'products of the mass struggle of India' in the USA, Great Britain or in other capitalist West European countries. This is the hard fact behind the so-called honesty and integrity of top naxalite leaders and their class struggle. They are fooling the native inhabitants of forests much in the same fashion as politicians fool the nation. The army or the para military forces are gradually losing their gravity due to the politicians. The failure of civil police system has necessitated the regular internal use of the army, and this will sooner or later boomerang heavily. This has already started happening – for instance on one hand the naxals are killing para military personnel and on the other, proposing 'truce.' And the government gives a hint of consideration. What is it, if not boomeranging? (Published in By-Line National News Weekly (Hindi and English) March 06, 2010 Issue under regular column – Last Punch)
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