Red Salute to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1938–2025)

With profound sorrow and deep revolutionary respect, we mourn the passing of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, the Kenyan novelist, essayist, playwright, and militant anti-imperialist intellectual, who departed this world in 2025.
Ngũgĩ was not merely a writer — he was a people’s fighter, a cultural warrior who stood firmly against the forces of imperialism, colonialism, and global capitalism. From his early novels like Weep Not, Child and Petals of Blood, to his prison memoir Detained, and his ideological writings like Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ exposed the violent wounds inflicted upon the African continent by the colonial machine.
Ngũgĩ rejected the colonial languages and returned to his mother tongue, Gikuyu, challenging the Western stranglehold over African consciousness. In doing so, he exposed the cultural arm of imperialism — the way language is used as a weapon to erase memory, to dominate identity, and to enforce submission. This act of resistance was not symbolic — it was revolutionary.
His works echoed the Marxist conviction that literature must serve the people. His commitment to class struggle, anti-racism, and the liberation of oppressed nations remains a beacon for writers and revolutionaries across the world. His incarceration by the Kenyan regime was testimony to his power — his words shook the throne.
Ngũgĩ stood in solidarity with struggles beyond Africa — from Latin America to Palestine, from the Dalits of India to the Indigenous peoples of the world. His internationalism was not charity; it was proletarian solidarity.
As the world bids farewell to this titan of anti-colonial thought, we affirm: Ngũgĩ is not dead. His words live, his struggle continues. We, who believe in a world without exploitation, without domination, without oppression — will carry forward his flame.
Let us write in the language of the people, speak the truth of the working class, and fight for the liberation of all humanity.
Red Salute, Comrade Ngũgĩ!
Lal Salaam!

Tuhin,Asim Giri
All India Convenors
Revolutionary Cultural Forum (RCF)
29 th May 2025

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The “fascist double engine” regime has been engaged in extra-judicial mass murder of Maoist activists and Adivasis under the so called Operation Kagar, even after the CPI (Maoist) has informed the State of its unilateral willingness to have a peace-talk. The killing of Comrade Keshav Rao, General Secretary of CPI (Maoist) and Maoist activists at Narayanpur-Bijapur today is in continuation of this. It amply reveals the blood thirsty mind-set of an inhuman fascist regime, which is highly condemnable. Instead of approaching the whole issue including the corporate plunder of forests that destroys the livelihood and sustenance of Adivasis, the ongoing extra-judicial murders show the fascist regime’s commitment to corporates.

Central Committee
CPI ( ML) Red Star

New Delhi
21 May 2025

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It is High Time for People to Demand De-escalation!

Not War, but People’s Solidarity and Social Harmony can Defeat Terrorism!

At the time of All Party Meeting on 8th May 2025, the government had unequivocally declared of achieving the “intent and objectives” of its “non-escalatory” military strike. It was also reported that the government has “no interest in escalating the situation”. But, as of now, the “non-escalating strikes” between Pakistan and India are on the verge of an escalation into a full-blown war. This is the inherent logic of every war, i.e., those who initiate a war cannot stop it.

Now, while the people of J&K, are the worst affected, all the States bordering Pakistan are bearing the brunt of the burden of escalation. Along with loss of lives and untold miseries to the people who are mainly in J&K, collateral damages are spreading to other places also, and more gruesome may be the situation in Pakistan. Pakistan, often called a ‘military state’, and so called ‘failed state’, has already given full powers to military to take decisions. Revealingly, following Pahalgam terrorist attack, the regime in India, the so called “Mother of Democracy”, has also granted full freedom to millitary to take decision regarding the strikes. This is an endorsement of ‘militarism’, that too at this juncture in human history, where none of the problems confronting humanity, including terrorism has a military solution. Rather, political solution is the only option!

Meanwhile, even as war is not formally declared, the godi media and corporate-owned TV channels are working overtime manufacturing consent for war. While there is no official intervention to restrict the fake-news, warmongering and war hysteria propagated by the corporate-media, state surveillance is in full swing for censoring/blocking even well meaning web magazines/portals which are upholding independent views. Those who are expressing dissent and differing views are silenced, attacked and incarcerated. At the same time, heinous fascist moves to orchestrate alienation, stigmatisation and hatred towards Muslims and Kashmiri people including students are in full swing across India.

This is the time for the people, majority of whom are working and oppressed, who are devoid of even minimum livelihood including food, medicine and shelter to come forward and resolutely say ‘No to War’. War is an opportunity for all ruling regimes to divert people’s attention from their real life. War is a godsend opportunity for the military-industrial complexes of imperialist powers like US and China, upon whom countries like India and Pakistan are depending for weapons, to boost their profits. And the entire burden will be on the shoulders of people in the form of rising prices, taxes, cut in social security, etc., in the guise of war-oriented resource mobilisation.

Therefore, what requires is urgent diplomatic initiatives and meaningful dialogues for halting the escalation. However, in the neofascist situation today, as we have seen in the case of the prolonged Ukraine war and Zionist aggression on Palestine, except rhetoric, meaningful and genuine initiative from the international community is lacking. As such, it is the task of the people, irrespective of their ideological or religious orientation, together with all progressive-democratic forces in the country, to unitedly come forward compelling the regime to go for a an immediate de- escalation and strive for peace. Terrorism can be eliminated only through people’s solidarity and social harmony. The need of the hour is the broadest possible anti-war people’s movement, which alone can prevent a war and bring peace today!

P J James
General Secretary
CPI (ML) Red Star

New Delhi
09.05.2025

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International Workers’ Day or May Day is celebrated this year, when under neoliberalism, working class and oppressed peoples of the world are passing through one of the darkest periods in history. Since world imperialist system is in an unprecedented crisis, and as all the inter-imperialist contradictions are sharpening, as manifested through the various local and regional conflicts and ongoing Trump-led ‘trade wars’ across the world, the entire burden of these crises and contradictions are shifted to the shoulders of the working class and all oppressed at a global level. And, to facilitate this process, the close nexus between most corrupt corporate billionaires and the far-right reactionary political leadership in both imperialist countries and in oppressed Afro-Asian-Latin American neocolonial countries are resorting to neofascism and unleashing super-exploitation and oppression on world working class and all oppressed, snatching away all their hard-earned democratic rights.

For almost a quarter century following the Second World War, due to the presence of an ideologically equipped International Communist Movement and continuing National Liberation struggles, imperialism was forced to envisage a ‘welfare state’ with provisions for social and democratic rights. However, since the 1970s, when the imperialist crisis bounced back with intensified vigour, on account of the ideological-political setbacks, the International Left was in disarray. Taking advantage of this situation, imperialist regimes and their lackeys across the world abandoned ‘welfare capitalism’ and embraced neoliberal globalisation with unrestrained and unfettered global mobility for financial oligarchs to super-exploit the working class and plunder nature. To counter working class struggles, imperialist think-tanks and neoliberal institutions formulated a host of post-Marxist and postmodern theories, to disorient and depoliticise the workers and oppressed, and thereby laying down the ideological-political background for the unprecedented corporate-fascist offensive.

In the post-Cold War phase following the collapse of Soviet Union, using the internationalisation of capital as material foundation, and through Islamophobia and anti-Communism and a whole set of reactionary ideologies such as racism, xenophobia, religious fundamentalism, neo-atheism and even neo-tribalism and so on as ideological base, neofascist regimes sprang up across the world, and are superimposing draconian laws and biggest-ever inhuman burdens over workers, migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in imperialist countries. It further intensified the super-exploitation of workers and all-round oppression on people. As a consequence, using the latest advancements in technology including AI, which have brought about several-fold increase in productivity of labour, a new international division of labour and ‘flexible specialisation’ are imposed the world over. Thus, rather than contributing to an increase in workers’ real wages and reduction in their working time, these new technologies are used for keeping the workers in a state of slaves or bonded labourers. The working class is increasingly becoming informal or unorganised devoid of any collective bargaining power as the production process itself is decomposed into several stages and relocated globally. And an increasing trend under the neoliberal-neofascist context is the spectacular growth in speculative-financial sectors relative to job-oriented real production such that the world itself is transforming into a ‘waste-land of unemployment’.

Global neofascism, with its anti-Communist, Islamophobic, racist and xenophobic orientation, as already noted, has sharpened all inter-imperialist contradictions, geopolitical tensions, imperialist sponsored wars, and even protectionist trade wars as under Trump regime in US today. The continuing war in Ukraine with its twists and turns, the holocaust unleashed on Palestinians in Gaza by Zionist-US evil axis transforming the entire Gaza into a massive grave yard, where the official death toll alone has crossed 52000, and the imperialist-instigated regional wars within Africa, intensifying tensions in South Asia and Asia-Pacific are manifestations. The intimidating and bullying tariffs imposed across the world by Trump has shocked the entire Western imperialist bloc with the threat of global stagflation. This was in continuation of neofascist Trump’s massive deportation of immigrants to their countries of origin in gross violation of all international procedures. At the same, imperialist China’s cold response to Trump’s tariff war by imposing equivalent retaliatory tariffs on US and the consequent collapse in US stock and financial markets and erosion in profit of US MNCs worth trillions of dollars have already challenged postwar imperialist hegemony of US itself.

Even amid this unprecedented imperialist crisis, wealth concentration with world’s corporate billionaires has now reached hitherto unknown levels, while workers, majority of whom are condemned to subsist on unorganised/informal sectors, are subjected to horrific levels of super-exploitation and surplus-value extraction. Today, more than 60 percent of the world working class is in unorganised sectors where 8-hour work, job and social security, etc., have become a thing of past. In India, the most populous country today, the unorganised or informal workers now comprise around 95 percent of the working class, the largest contingent of international proletariat today. The fascist Modi regime in India, whose reins are with RSS, the biggest and longest-running fascist organisation, has already abolished 44 labour laws that prevailed till the advent of far-right corporate fascism. Instead, it has brought forward 4 pro-corporate Labour Codes along with many other draconian laws and constitutional amendments in tune with the role of Modi government as a ‘corporate facilitator’. In this way, far-right RSS fascism is serving the most corrupt corporate capital, both Indian and global, by compelling the Indian workers to sell their labour power at the cheapest wages and on a casual/contract basis devoid of any basic democratic rights. And all the long-cherished goals of the working class such as 8-hour working day, permanent employment, pension system, equal pay for equal work, gender-friendly working conditions and so on have become a myth under fascist Modi regime. Even the annual budgetary allocation to the Employment Guarantee Scheme is also drastically reduced over the years, at a time when India is undergoing the biggest unemployment in recorded history.

Today, the consequences of far-right neofascism in India, with around 145 crore people, are incomparably more horrific than that in any other country. Under Modi, who came to power on an anti-corruption plank in 2014, India has become one among world’s most corrupt countries and a flourishing example of crony capitalism defined as the unholy nexus between corrupt corporates and ruling regime. Policy decisions are made in corporate board rooms while parliament remains as a mere spectator. On account of the corporate-friendly labour, tax, and environmental policies, and consequent super-exploitation of workers and corporate plunder of nature, the widening of the gap between the poor and the rich reached spectacular levels. As a result, the top one percent of super-rich Indians holds more income than that under British colonialism, while that of bottom 50 percent today is less than what it was in 1951. Corporate crony capitalists in whom India’s wealth is concentrated and who are totally depending on imperialist centres for technology and expertise are least interested in employment-generating real production and are engaged in money-spinning speculative businesses. The earnings of working class and oppressed people are steeply going down and they are unable to subsist due to sky-rocketing prices of food, fuel, medicine and other items. With world’s majority of “absolute poor”, India is called a “citadel of global poverty” today.

And, effectively utilising the reactionary ideologies of Brahmanical casteism, anti-Muslimness/Islamophobia, and anti-Communism, far-right RSS is in the maddening pace towards its ultimate goal of a majoritarian, Manuvadi Hindu Rashtra. Through a series of constitutional amendments and administrative moves such as abrogation of Article 370, CAA, pro-Hindutva SC judgement for constructing Ram Mandir at the very site of demolished Babri Masjid, 103rd Constitutional Amendment incorporating upper-caste oriented Economic Reservation and thereby undermining caste-based reservation, anti-Muslim Waqf Act, UCC and so on, the fascist regime is steadily moving ahead with its heinous agenda. Even the latest terrorist attack on tourists at Pahalgam is also used as a godsend opportunity for shoring up Islamophobia and for majoritarian polarisation in the society. More heinous is Modi government’s unholy links with the Zionist regime as part of the Evangelist-Zionist- Saffron nexus and altogether abandonment of India’s erstwhile solidarity with the Palestine liberation struggle. Of course, it needs to be seen in the broader context of the innumerable overseas extensions and affiliates of RSS and its links with neofascist forces at a global level.

At this critical neoliberal-neofascist context, when we observe International Workers’ Day, the task of the working class and all oppressed are more tedious than any other previous period in history. Of course, workers and oppressed peoples across the world are coming forward resisting fascism and imperialism in manifold ways. However, what conspicuously lacks, both at the global level and in India, is the badly needed political alternative on the part of Left. That is, while the reactionary global capital is unleashing the biggest-ever corporate fascist offensive on world people, even regarding the understanding and approach to 21st century fascism, basic differences are there among many self-professed communist parties and groups. Regarding the analysis of imperialism too, fundamental differences are there among the broad Left. Of course, this ideological-political and organisational weakness of the Left is an opportune situation for the fascist regimes to intensify neoliberal-neofascist oppression on the one hand, while enabling corporate think-tanks to hoodwink and depoliticise the people on the other. Hence, while observing May Day, the most urgent task on the part of all genuine Communists, progressive and democratic forces today is to build up the necessary ideological-political and organisational alternative which is capable to resist and overthrow fascism and neoliberal imperialism, and move towards a people’s democratic society.

Long Live May Day!
Workers and Oppressed Peoples of the World, Unite!
Overthrow Fascism and Imperialism!
March Towards People’s Democracy!

CPI (ML) Red Star

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CPI (ML) Red Star expresses its heartfelt condolences on the demise of Sanjay Singhvi at the age of 67. He was a Polit Bureau Member of CPI (ML) Red Star from 2011 to 2018, and a Central Committee member before his leaving the Party in 2022.

Central Committee
CPI (ML) Red Star

24.04.2025

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Resolutely Condemn Terrorist Attack on Tourists Visiting Pahalgam!

— CPI (ML) Red Star

CPI (ML) Red Star resolutely condemns the brutal and inhuman terrorist attack, killing 26 tourists on 22 April afternoon in Pahalgam, that belongs to Baisaran, also known as ‘Mini Switzerland’ in J&K. This is the first major attack on civilians since abrogation of Article 370 in 2019, that took away the Special Status of J&K. In spite of government’s claim on bringing back normalcy to the state of J&K, attacks on security forces are continuing without any let up, though this dastardly and targeted attack on civilians is a relatively new trend. We extend our heartfelt condolences to the families of all those killed.

Despite Baisaran and Pahalgam being a high-security zone, there was no security force at the time of the attack. It is reported that the police could reach the spot only after 20 minutes of the horrific crime. Though Modi regime speak about achieving normalcy in J&K, for which it justified abrogation of Article since the 2019, as the latest event shows, together with recurring attacks on security forces, the situation in J&K is far from normalcy; rather it is worsening.

Instead of utilising the latest terrorist attack as a disguise for intensifying the regime-led ongoing fascistisation in the country, what is urgently required on the part of the government is to take concrete steps to bring back peace and security for people in J&K at the earliest. For this, instead of rhetoric and propaganda blitzkrieg, what required is to take the people in to proper confidence and initiate consultation with all stake-holders involved. J&K is one of the most militarized regions, not only in India, but in the entire world. It is being proved time and again that this will not solve the problem. To be precise, rather than superimposing militarisation that alienates the people further, the badly needed approach in the present situation is a lasting process of peace and democratization in J&K.

Central Committee
CPI (ML) Red Star

New Delhi
23.04.2025

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Lucknow. All India Revolutionary Women’s Organization Uttar Pradesh State Coordinator Anju said that the incident of gang rape once again in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s parliamentary constituency Varanasi is extremely shameful and highly condemnable. She said that to stop the increasing cases of rape in Varanasi, the Prime Minister himself should take cognizance and take strict and concrete steps along with summoning the police administration. She said that I strongly condemn this heinous incident and demand from the Uttar Pradesh government to arrest the accused and take action against them and take strict steps to stop such incidents from increasing.

AIRWO Uttar Pradesh State Convenor Anju said that according to reports, a 19-year-old girl from Hukulganj police station area of ​​Varanasi, who wanted to become a sportsperson and worked in a hotel spa centre to strengthen her financial condition, was kidnapped from Pandeypur Lalpur area on 29 March and gang-raped for 7 days. During this time her phone was snatched from her. When the girl’s father went to the police station on 3 April to lodge a missing person’s report, it was not registered. On 4 April, the girl returned home in a drunken state and scared and after becoming normal in a day, she told everything to her mother. The girl’s mother lodged a report against 12 named and 11 unknown people on 6 April. In this case, the police arrested 9 people including hookah bar operator Anmol Gupta two days later on 8 April, others are still absconding. She said that it is a very serious failure of the Banaras police administration that a girl was gang-raped for 7 days in the city limits, in a hotel, in a car and it remained unaware of it. Whereas Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath announces every second or third day that “those who cast evil eyes on girls will not be able to cross even the next intersection”. But a girl kept bleeding on the roads in broad daylight and their law and order system kept sleeping.

AIRWO leader Anju said that it is also a very serious matter that how are the criminals who commit violence against women so fearless in Varanasi district of Uttar Pradesh, which is the parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi? Even before this, in 2023, a girl has been a victim of gang rape inside the IIT BHU campus, in which three boys associated with the BJP’s IT cell were arrested a month later, when the protests regarding this became very intense. After the release of these rapists belonging to the fascist Sangh Parivar, the saffron forces celebrated their release in a shameful manner. Even before this, girls of BHU have come out on the streets over sexual assault on girls in BHU.

Just a few months ago, a girl named Khushi was “made to disappear”. Such incidents are continuing in Varanasi, it is not stopping, which is extremely worrying.

In the current horrific gang rape case, I make the following demands from the Uttar Pradesh government –

1- All the culprits should be arrested as soon as possible and all of them should be tried in a fast track court by imposing the section of gang rape.

2- The girl should be provided a competent lawyer of her choice at government expense and she should be given justice as soon as possible.

3- Those police personnel should be dismissed, who refused to write a missing report on behalf of the girl’s father.

4- The girl should be provided with necessary physical and mental treatment, along with every kind of help in fulfilling her dream of becoming a sportsperson.

5- Necessary steps should be taken soon to stop the increasing rape crimes in Banaras and to create a fear-free environment for women.

Anju
Convenor
All India Revolutionary Women’s Organization (AIRWO) Uttar Pradesh
09/04/2025

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The Modi government is repeatedly claiming on eliminating Maoist menace by early next year. According to official estimate, as part of government’s prolonged anti-Maoist operations, 16,733 people have been arrested and 10,884 surrendered, while the Maoist-affected districts have drastically come down over the last few years. It is also claimed that only 400 armed cadre are left now, while bulk of the weaponry is recovered from Maoists. If these are the facts, then the Maoists are not a serious security threat that warrants the kind of government offensive that is going on now. Still the government’s approach to the issue is as if the Maoists are external enemies rather than citizens of India.

It is in this context that the CPI (Maoist)’s preparedness for a ceasefire and dialogue with the Chhattisgarh Government assumes significance. For facilitating it, the Maoists have asked for a halting of the war during the period of talks. However, the Chhattisgarh Dy Chief minister has said the BJP-led government will only go for talks if the Maoists do not put forward any conditions. It seems that this difference is resolvable in the process preceding the dialogue, if the reported willingness on both sides is genuine.

But the ruling regime should know that the brunt of the so-called anti-Maoist operations and the horrors therefrom are borne by the adivasis, the local villagers and innocent civilians who are also killed in the so called “encounters”. While the government is constitutionally bound to protect the democratic and human rights of people, it is high time on the part of CPI (Maoist) to realise the futility of the ‘path’ they are pursuing in the concrete conditions of today. And, it is also alienating the working and oppressed masses for the sake of whom they are fighting.

At this fascist juncture in our country, when even the hard-earned democratic rights of workers and oppressed through yesteryears’ struggle are being snatched away, and basic freedom of speech and expression are curtailed, the immediate task of all democratic and left organisations is to strive for the broadest anti-fascist unity. It is upto CPI (Maoist) to take stock of the situation and to realise that the long-term task of social revolution is inseparable from overcoming the fascist menace confronting the country today.

In this context, we appeal to both government and CPI ( Maoist) to make use of all avenues to enter into a dialogue for a truce to end the ongoing “encounters” and violence with immediate effect.

P J James
General Secretary
CPI (ML) Red Star

New Delhi
04.04.2025

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Shame on International Community and the Arab World Remaining as Onlookers!!

Israel through its biggest-ever single -day attack on Gaza has massacred over 500 defenceless and starving Palestinians, around one-third of them being children and women, including personnel of Gaza administration, and inflicting widespread destruction. This deadliest attack amidst the so called truce process, surpasses the criminalities committed during the 18- month long genocide unleashed on Gaza by US-Zionist axis killing around 61700 people. As usual, the weapons used in the latest bombardments are also those supplied by US as well as coordinated and backed by it. With this, the Zionist ethnic cleansing of Palestinians has definitely entered a new phase.

This deadliest massacre is committed after a prolonged blockade of food, water, electricity and even essential medicines. It is a pre-planned assault in continuation of the US attack on Yemen, and effectively utilising the new opportunities of replenishment of weapons supplied by US for the renewed offensive. Obviously, this attack follows the usual pattern of intensifying horrors during the holy month of Ramzan. By shattering ceasefire and intensifying war, while Netanyahu wants to continue in power with the support of far-right neo-Zionists, Trump’s intention is to occupy the entire Gaza strip by relocating or exterminating the Palestinians for transforming it into a tourist resort and a permanent US base.

While US imperialism, with its unending history of committing holocausts upon holocausts on defenceless people, uses Israel, its military outpost in Middle East, for its geopolitical interests and unleashing genocide on Palestinians, it is not only painful but even shameful that the international community and the entire Arab world are remaining as mere onlookers or spectators. It is high time on the part of all anti-imperialist and anti-fascist democratic forces to rise up to the occasion for halting this US- Zionist holocaust on the Palestinian people.

P J James
General Secretary
CPI (ML) Red Star

New Delhi
19.03.2025

Note: Links for our earliest statement on this issue dated 17th and 27th January 2025 in which we have pointed about the trap by Yankee – Zionist nexus under the guise of Ceasefire:

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1GuzAy6zcr/

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/12KuxeX9dte/

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The unjustified haste and extra-ordinary interest on the part of Modi-Shah duo to push through the ‘Delimitation Exercise’ is another ingenious fascist move in continuation of the latest conversion of Election Commission as an extension of the Executive, superimposition of Hindi, ‘one nation one election’, etc. As of now, the number of parliamentary constituencies from each state is based on the 1971 Census and to maintain the proportion of Lok Sabha representatives from various Indian states, there has been no change in the number of electoral constituencies since 1973, though there have been wide variations in population growth across states during 1971 -2024. After the first freeze of seats in 1971, the second freeze came in 2001 which is to expire in 2026. The original purpose of the extension was to extend and encourage reduction in fertility rates in the Hindi-speaking North Indian States which failed in population control measures compared to Southern states with reduced fertility rates.

Therefore, as pointed out by Southern states, if delimitation exercise is done solely based on population, their representation in parliament will be reduced and the entire balance of power will go against them, and it will be the death knell of Federalism in India. As per existing law, since delimitation has to be carried out on the basis of population, Southern states which over the years have deliberately reduced population growth will be penalised by it. That’s why the demand for taking other criteria along with population is strongly put forward by proponents of federalism such that the proportion of Lok Sabha representatives from states can be kept intact.

However, instead of taking the Southern states into confidence and amicably settle the issue through a broad consensus, the moves on the part of the fascist regime so far are unilateral and arbitrary. For instance, if delimitation exercise is carried out based on the 1971- 2024 population growth rate, then four states comprising UP, Bihar, MP and Rajasthan will have an increase of 155 Lok Sabha seats, while five South Indian states, viz., AP, Telangana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, together will only have an increase of 35 Lok Sabha seats. Again, if delimitation is done taking the existing population as such, then two states, UP and Bihar, will have more MPs than that from the entire South India. What required is a credible guarantee on the maintenance of existing proportion of MPs for states while redrawing boundaries of constituencies.

However, the fascist regime at the centre, which is adept at cunningly using every issue as an opportunity, is bent on utilising the Delimitation exercise to suit it’s anti-federal, unitary agenda even as it is indefinitely postponing the 2021 Census under various excuses. To be precise, under RSS neofascism, the Delimitation exercise, like other constitutional, legal and administrative moves, is another well-thought out fascist stategy aimed at demolishing Indian federalism and superimpose a pan-Indian majoritarian project undermining the multilingual, multicultural, multi-ethnic and ‘multi-national’ character of India.

We appeal to all democratic, secular and progressive forces and all well-meaning sections to rise up to resist and defeat the inherent fascist agenda in this hasty Delimitation exercise that foretells the doom of Federalism in India.

P J James
General Secretary
CPI (ML) Red Star

New Delhi
28.02.2025

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