The Left are Better Left Behind

Two prominent news items caught my attention, both involving the Left Front, read together reinforces my belief that Left, when left behind augur well for the country.

The first incident involved Jawaharlal Nehru University. The Leftist Students’ organization of JNU on Wednesday forced the varsity authorities to call off a lecture by the US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, Richard Boucher.
Boucher, who is on a visit to New Delhi, was invited by the JNU’s Centre for Canadian, American and Latin-American Studies to speak on Indo-US relations. But the varsity authorities had to cancel the programme following protests by the JNU Students’ Union (JNUSU), which is dominated by the All India Students’ Association (AISA) and Students Federation of India (SFI).

Mr.Boucher instead met nearly 30 students in the US embassy and had an interaction on bilateral relations between the two countries. The JNUSU president Sandeep Singh said the cancellation of the lecture is a victory for not only for JNU, but also for all who have been raising voices against US imperialism.

The second news item is about West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb’s remarks about bundhs. The CM said on Tuesday that he would not support bundhs and gheraos and that he would no more support such modes of protests even if his party gave a call for it.

The Left parties condemned Buddhadeb for his remarks, terming it as his personal opinion. Not to be “left behind” everyone protested vociferously that they would never give up their “fundamental right”, to refrain from bundhs and strikes.
Analysing these two news items, I could arrive at the following conclusions and I am sure everyone with the right mind would concur with me.

The Students Unions dominated by the Left wing ideologues are scared that the students would listen to the “right” lecture and the Left would be left behind. So much of respect they have for the discerning faculties of the student community of JNU. If the Students Union is so convinced about the misdeeds of US, it is left for the students to decide on listening to different lectures. One more proof of the lefts controlling and conditioning academia of our country.

When the CITU said they cannot give up their “fundamental right” to strike, I couldn’t help laughing. For neither they had any understanding of the “fundamentals” nor the “rights”. If bundhs are fundamental rights, how the apex court has banned it?

What is “right” for the “left"? If left behind, the country can go “right forward”.