(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India
(Marxist)
Vol. XXXII
No.
38
September
28 , 2008
Down The Memory Lane....
�C Rajagopalachary, the former governor general of India was supposed
to be a mature man and never became angry with anyone. But when he
became the chief minister of the Chennai presidency, he had to lose his
temper when P Ramamurthy spoke in the assembly. When Rajaji couldn�t
counter the arguments of PR, he shouted at the height of his voice and
declared that the communists would be his enemy number one. Rajaji did
not count the British imperialism as an enemy but made outbursts
against the communists. PR was instrumental in exposing that mindset of
people like Rajaji in the public domain.�
R Umanath
�P Ramamurthy moved a resolution in parliament in 1967 to name the
Madras state as Tamilnadu but he could not be present in the parliament
when the resolution was taken up for discussion. It was Bupesh Gupta
who had introduced it and said that PR was detained by the state
government under DIR and could not be present to move the resolution
and he is doing it on behalf of PR. C N Annadurai spoke on the subject
thanking the communists for bringing up the resolution. Will the
Dravidian parties acknowledge this fact honestly in public in today�s
context?...�
R
Nallakannu
�In 1967, immediately after his release from jail, PR went and met
Rajaji and was able to form a united front to defeat the Congress in
the 1967 assembly elections. Congress party that lost power then in
Tamilnadu has never returned to the seat of power so far. The DMK had
often vacillated and tried to ally with Congress opportunistically to
capture power on many occasions thereafter. Recently, when celebrating
the centenary year of C N Annadurai in Trichy, Karunanidhi had declared
from the dais that he would consider accommodating Congressmen in the
ministry after talking to the Congress president. Is it the tribute he
is trying to pay to the memory of �Anna� who steadfastly fought against
the Congress misrule?...�
N
Varadarajan
�Next to Subash Chandra Bose, PR was the only leader who had won the
parliamentary election under detention. PR was detained in Madurai when
the elections took place. He contested from the jail; did not go for
canvassing and won the election hands down. Such was the affection and
love people had shown to communist leaders in those days�.�
N
Sankaraiah
�During the struggle for national freedom and in the post independent
India too, Comrade PR reiterated his commitment to unify the working
class to achieve its class objectives. The militant trade union
struggles in the late sixties and early seventies were major
contributors for the formation of the Left Front governments in Bengal
and Kerala..�
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