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Ernakulam, Kerala — 682 301, Printed at Chithira Printers, 63/321, Poruvelil, Kannachanthodu Road, Kochi — 18 2 PEOPLE'S MARCH, February 2007 Open Letter From Com Sushil Roy to Mr. Buddhadeb Bhattacharya Hon’ble Chief Minister of West Bengal {We reproduce here an open letter from Com. Sushil Roy, a politburo member of the CPI(Maoist) to the CM of West Bengal, comrade Roy has been incarcerated in the jails of West Bengal and Jharkhand. In spite of his age and failing health he is being harassed by the CPM-led government of West Bengal and the Congress-backed government of Jharkhand. At present he is lodged in the jail hospital at Chaibasa with a fractured hip bone. We call on the people to demand his immediate release on humanitarian grounds…… Editor} Honourable Chief Minister, freedom loving Indian masses and assembly? I have deep interest to know My regards, patriotic revolutionaries, the British about all these things. The matter of my letter to you is very imperialists had made those clauses of The Brutish imperialists had given serious and very wide. But thinking of the I.P.C. and by these rules the death sentence to Netaji Subhas Chandra your valuable time I will try to draw your oppressive British imperialist rulers had Bose also on the ground of treason to attention towards a few points in short. termed the great patriotic revolutionaries the state. But the Indian people respect The matter of my letter is completely as ‘Terrorists’ and hanged hundreds of him and other great revolutionaries of the political, I don’t have any personal revolutionaries like Masterda Surya Sen, British era as great patriots. Hence, to grudge against you. Khudiram, Bhagat Singh, Dinesh Gupta decide the definition of a patriot and The Jhargram Session Court has etc. Hundreds of others were kept in treason is not the sole right of the ruling awarded me five years rigorous life imprisonment in Andaman Jail and classes and their parties. It is for the imprisonment for treason against the other frightening jails and lots were done people to decide the actual definition. state on the basis of the 35th Arms Act of to death in these jails. In the background As a ruling party, those whom you are the Indian Penal Code 121-A/122/124-B. of this historical perspective the branding as ‘treason’ and ‘terrorists’, My age is 68 years 6 months now. I had questions that naturally come to mind you are not speaking as a citizen of a a cataract operation of both the eyes in are - the present “Independent – ‘free and sovereign’ country. You are 1995. The operation was done by the sovereign” democratic Indian evaluating this as a servant ruling famous eye specialist Dr. Sunil Bagchi. government and the Left-democratic alliance bound by the system of foreign The left eye got completely damaged State government of West Bengal are neo-colonialism. In a Marxist evaluation, just after the operation. Even after the using the same laws made by the British ‘Communist’, ‘Social Democrat’ or operation there was blood hemorrhage Imperialists to suppress the movements ‘Leftists’ whatever name the ruling in the other eye due to blood pressure. of workers, peasants, intellectuals, parties take in a class divided society; So there are chances of complete students and other toiling masses and they all are keeping the interests of the blindness at any time. Along with that I branding them as ‘terrorists’ national or foreign exploiting classes. am suffering from Ischaemic heart ‘extremists’, putting them in life Has the left front government of West diseases, enlargement of the prostate, imprisonment for struggling against the Bengal taken any different stand from piles with regular bleeding, constipation exploitation – oppression and control of Congress, BJP and other right etc. Treatment is going on in the jail American Imperialists, the ring leader of reactionary parties in the policies of their hospital. neo-colonialism in India, and other practical politics and practice? Even I came to know from ‘Pratidin’dated imperialists and of the comprador Indian both the ‘Communist parties’ CPI and 29th May and through my lawyer that the big bourgeoisie and big landlords. Is CPI(M) never seem to take even the CPM led state Government has appealed our ‘Independence and sovereignty’ a minimum interest to take a different stand to the High Court demanding my life fake and a ceremonial declaration to fool in these matters. In the present imprisonment. I have some questions the Indian masses? Is the democratic circumstances I need to introduce myself and a statement regarding this role of the setup, laws, judiciary still a servant of in brief. state government, which I am informing the British colonial system? And is it In 1961 I got a permanent job in the you through this letter, kindly read this forced to follow the footsteps of the Usha Fan factory in Bansdroni of south patiently. British Imperialists as well as other Kolkata. I came in touch with the then As far as my knowledge goes, and imperialists for being contract-bound CPI party during the India-China border the lawyers also say, that the clauses of and faithful to the laws and judiciary clash. A strike was started in 1963 on the I.P.C. in ‘Independent’ and made by them? Are the Parliament, different demands in our factory. The ‘sovereingn’ India are following the Constitution and Judiciary, Nehru government proclaimed an colonial rules made by the British Administration, Jails of this ordinance banning all strikes in any Imperialists. The ‘Independent’ and ‘independent-sovereign’ country still organization and threatened, applying ‘sovereign’ Indian Government has not under the control of the foreign rulers? the Indian security act. But the framed any new clauses of I.P.C. My Has the MPs and MLAs of the Left- struggling workers ignored Nehru’s question is, in order to continue their democratic front of West Bengal ever threats and continued the strike for six colonial rule and ruthlessly suppress the opposed it in Parliament and the state months and untimatly won the struggle. PEOPLE'S MARCH, February 2007 3 Noticing my advice and active Later, on the issue of the party’s On last 21st May, 2005 when I was partictpation during the strike the viewpoint on the Naxalbari peasant about to get into a rickshaw after coming workers elected me to the executive struggle I had disagreement in the union. out of a labour slum area (No.-4 Madrasi committee of the union. The president The party had strongly condemned the pet) a group of 4-5 plain cloths policemen of our union at that time was Indrajit Naxalbari struggle and termed it as forced me into a car and blindfolded me. Gupta of the CPI. In the meantime the extremism. Rather, in the background of They snatched my handkerchief, comb debate of two lines between the Soviet the International Communist Movement and purse. I did not have any thing else. and Chinese party in the International of that period, I did not observe the After driving the whole night in the same Communist Movement influenced our Naxalbari peasant struggle as a mere manner they took me to a two story union also. The Indrajit Guptas were peasant struggle. For me the great building in a jungle area on 22nd May early then in favour of the Soviet party line naxalbari movement was a political line, morning, which was basically a BSF camp led by Dange. We kept our confidence a target, a future for capturing state and about 150 BSF personnel was on Chinese party line led by our Vice- power. At that time I personally had present there. In that camp two police president Haridas Malakar and secretary debates on the organizational and officers continuously interrogated me on Bimal Chatterjee. Continuing the debate political line of the party with the leaders 22nd and 23rd May. Then on 24th May on different issues in the union we like then state secretary Com. Pramod morning at about 8 O’clock they brought cornered them and they became a Dasgupta, Kesto Ghosh, Niranjan Sen, me to Belpahari police station. On the minority. Indrajit Gupta was heckled in Satya Sen (Ranjan), Prasanto Sur, Bhola same day at about 10 O’clock they many ways. In a seminar of workers in Bose etc. In a G.B. meeting in the brought me to Jhargram court covering the Muslim Institute hall we even Thyagraj hall of Ballygange I had put up my face. Afterwards, in the FIR the attacked Indrajit Gupta throwing chairs. a question opposing the popular party police had shown that they have arrested In the seventh party congress in 1964 slogan “Peoples’ democratic revolution me on 23rd May at Tamajuri village in the when the CPI(M) was formed I joined that is our word of worship”, asking why it is Belpahari police station area while party.