People's Democracy

Bengal BJP Leader Lauds

Vajpayee As The ‘Hitler Of India’

IN a depraved moment of quixotic confession, the state chief of the BJP, Tathagata Roy chose to praise prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee as the political leader who “has done for India what Hitler could do for Germany.”   In particular, he decided to emphasise how Vajpayee “could solve the unemployment problem of India much in the manner in which Adolf Hitler was able to do in pre-Second World War Germany by constructing roads.” Roy is often described, even by his own men in the RSS, as ‘a leader in search of a party’.

In a sharp critique of Roy’s confessionary statement, state secretary of the Bengal unit of the CPI(M), Anil Biswas, pointed out that “at long last the cat is out of the bag and Roy’s statement discloses the covert and sometimes overt ambitions of the RSS-BJP combine to bring about Fascism in India.” 

The secret agenda was no longer a secret now, Biswas noted and he went on to add that it was perhaps a jumble of political desperation and bravado that had led Roy to allow the truth, for once, to trickle out.  All the chatter of the BJP about strengthening the democratic structure in India was little more than a smokescreen behind which they would work hard in secret to clamp down a fascist regime on the masses of the people, commented Biswas.

The CPI(M) has consistently maintained that the RSS-BJP combine had hidden ambitions to set up a fascistic rule in India.  What Roy forgot in his enthusiasm to compare Vajpayee with Hitler was the fact that the Nazi leader had concentrated on building a network of roadways merely to facilitate the movement of the armed Panzer divisions towards the Soviet border. 

Indeed, one is left wondering about the actual aim of the Vajpayee government in attempting (but as yet not succeeding) in organising the so-called “Golden Quadrilateral,” during the course of which an honest engineer, Satyendra Dubey, had to lay down his life when he had protested against the taking over of much of the construction work by the mafia.

As far as Roy’s claim, preposterous and unreal, about Vajpayee having “solved India’s unemployment problem,” one needs merely to point out that over the past six years, nearly 90 lakh of workers-employees have been thrown of out of their jobs and of them, more than 4.22 lakh belong to the central government-run institutions and undertakings.