GOD’S OWN COUNTRY BECOMES A GOD FORSAKEN LAND

EMS was Brahmin first, communist next: Cheated Dalits, OBCs, Muslims & destroyed Kerala

DR. M.S. JAYAPRAKASH, GURU VIHAR, KOLLAN DT. - 691 012

The birth centenary of the late E.M.S. (E.M. Sankaran Nambuthiripad) is now being celebrated in Kerala. He is supposed to be one of the noted marxian thinkers and theoreticians in India. There are various views and evaluations some of which are at variance with each other and even mutually contradicting, if not ridiculously hyperbolic, about the contribution of EMS to the growth of communism in the country. This article is to throw light on some of the dark areas related to the true personality of EMS that found expression in his social reforms efforts, egalitarian concepts etc. as a Nambuthiri Brahmin communist.

All those highly eulogized land reforms introduced and implemented by the Communist Govt. in Kerala under his leadership were in fact concealed reactionary measures to protect the interest of the upper caste feudal land owners of Kerala in the long run. The feudal system in Kerala was almost entirely controlled by the upper castes to which privileged class EMS belonged.

BEST FRIEND OF LANDLORDS

By birth and by tradition EMS was all through a victim of his Brahmin-feudal mindset and he could never extricate himself from the clutches of his mindset.

The upper caste land owners of Kerala originally thought EMS was their enemy and his pro-poor reforms mooted by the communist govt. were out to liquidate them. However, after a while, they soon realised EMS was their best friend to protect their vested interest and hence it is their duty to compete with others to shower eloquent economium on the fallacious greatness of this protagonist of the poor-suppressed-class of Kerala.

A critical examination of his political activities and decision will prove beyond a shadow of doubt that all his social-labour-downtrodden movements, which he undertook or inspired others to undertake, helped only to reverse the progress — economic or social — causing irreparable damage to the industrial, social, fabric of Kerala.

KERALA SUFFERED UNDER E.M.S.

The state is still suffering from the repercussions of those movements to which he gave intellectual leadership under the pretext of finding lasting solutions for the ills of the society.

His perverted approaches only added to the problems with the result that Kerala today stands neglected by reputed potential entrepreneurs, despite the efforts of various govts. that ruled the state from time to time including communist dispensations, to attract investments to the state.

The bad name earned by his perverse politics deeply vitiated the minds of the investors as well as the Kerala’s labour class.

COLOSSAL FAILURE

This “god’s own country” has been converted into a god-forsaken country solely owing to the eccentric ideas of this manuwadi communist theoretician - thinker.

And his faithful followers of Kerala went all-out to imitate his model particularly economic and industrial progress.

Any one in the party that showed the courage to think differently was caught off hand and nipped in the bud, ostensibly to protect and safeguard the interests of the labour class, the down-trodden majority.

Notwithstanding his unquestionable adroitness in interpreting communist ideology to serve his party, EMS has proved to be a colossal failure in the empirical sphere of promoting the economic interest of the state in general and the labour class in particular. The oppressed majority is always kept in the dark as to their future course continually giving them false hope of bright future which is never realised.

HIMALAYAN LIE

The propaganda that EMS donated all the wealth to the party voluntarily is a Himalayan lie that contradicts even the admission made by EMS himself. To quote EMS himself:

At this time I began to actively associate with the party programmes as a result of which I was afraid of various actions from the government like acquisition of my property etc. In order to escape from these actions I resolved to legally transfer all my properties, including the one inherited through my mother, in the name of my wife. (EMS, How I became a Communist, p.197).

However , EMS continues: “this did not help matters”. As EMS went into hiding to escape arrest all his properties that were transferred to his wife, were seized by the authorities forcing his wife to flee. This is another lie which EMS cooked to mislead the people. In fact those properties were seized by the authorities not because EMS went into hiding to evade arrest, but because the properties were grossly undervalued for the purpose of transfer depriving the treasury of a substantial revenue by way of stamp duty, registration fee etc.

FABULOUSLY RICH COMMUNIST

Any one can examine the registration records pertaining to the subsequent proceedings initiated by the authorities and get convinced of the veracity of this fact. Later the property came back to his ownership. These developments were then reported in leading dailies of Kerala (Mathrubhoomi, June 12, 1942).

He sold his property with a well furnished house located very close to the govt. secretariat, Trivandrum, for Rs. 40 lakhs in 1996. This income was shared among his sons and daughters.

This further proves that the propaganda that he donated all his wealth to the party is a Himalayan lie. Even today his supporters are involved in the propaganda that he lived in a rented house during his last days. This is the story of “poor EMS”.

ESTATE LAND

A little deeper examination of the Kerala Land Reforms Act will be useful to understand the motive behind framing such an act under EMS. The sole purpose of enacting this Act, as will be unraveled soon, is to hoodwink the landless majority of Kerala, to political advantage of the party.

ESTATE OWNERS GIVEN CONCESSION

There are 132 sections and subsections in the Kerala Land Reforms Act passed in 1970. The Act treats the entire land in Kerala to two clear divisions, namely agricultural land and estate land. As per the Act, a family of five members is allowed to own-possess 15 acres and any land in excess of this limit is considered to be illegal possessions which is to be surrendered to the govt.

Estate land has no limits and anybody can keep any number of acres lawfully. It is the so-called excess agricultural land that is seized and distributed among the poor landless in Kerala, subject to a maximum of 5 cents per family. Apparently, this will sound a reasonably attractive proposal to the ears of the traditionally landless poor. However in practice this has proved to be a burden on the back of the unfortunate poor. In effect, this is truly a normal commercial transaction entered into between the landless poor family, the land owner and the govt. As per clause 96, the allottee to whom the land is allotted by the authorities, shall pay 55% of the market value of the allotment to the original land owner whose excess land is allotted.

KRISHNA IYER’S CROOKED BRAIN

If the landless poor is unable to pay this 55% value in lumpsum, he will be permitted to remit the value on convenient installments. And the remaining 45% of the land market value will be disbursed by the govt. until the full value is received by the original land owner, the allotted piece of land will not be legally registered and given dejure possession to the allottee.

FAKE LAND REFORM

The poor landless family remains legally landless until the whole value is fully paid out. It is the fertile jurist’s brain and communist wisdom of Justice (retd.) V.R. Krishna Iyer one of the celebrated typical representatives of Indian Brahminism, that worked overtime, burning midnight oil, to help the poor landless lot of Kerala. Remember, the huge land presently in possession of the feudal land-owner came to be his possession illegally and unjustifiably. In majority of the cases, the land originally belonged to the predecessors of the present landless poor. It was by resorting to coercive, forceful, unlawful methods that the otherwise influential upper caste then took possession of these land masses depriving the rightful owners of their land.

Krishna Iyer and his co-communists know this history and more than any one else. Most of these “new land owners” of Kerala still remain indebted and in debts, as poor as ever.

BUNDLE OF LIES ON EXCESS LAND

This is the kind of land reforms in whose enactment the communist party and its capitalist leaders take credit. They celebrate this nonsense every year, like many other trivialities which they celebrate on an annual basis to continue to hoodwink the people of Kerala with the sole agenda of keeping the party alive and relevant. However the people of Kerala and now though late the people of West Bengal have started discerning the truth. The party has always been playing to the gallery ignoring the basic questions and their lasting solutions.

Look at the distribution side of this so-called excess land acquired from the land owners. As per the survey conducted by the govt. in the year 1966-67, a land area of one million acres were located and identified as excess land. Later this was officially declared by the govt. in its official gazette. However by a new declaration done in 1978 the govt. reidentified the excess land as only 1.5 lakh acres that is available for distribution (actually for sale). This reversal was done on second thought, obviously under the influence of the rich land owner’s lobby. But the total average of land actually taken over by the govt. was only 1,26,000 acres which was subsequently reduced to 89,587 acres by a third gazette notification. Still worse, out of this 89,587 acres acquired, only a mere 5,965 acres were distributed (actually sold) among the landless poor.

MANUFACTURING MARTYRS

The communists in fact hoodwinked the farmers and the landless poor in framing and implementation of the “revolutionary enactment called the Kerala Land Reforms Act”.

Punnapara-Vayalaar agitation of 1946 is another excellent example of communist party’s hypocrisy. This was an absolutely unnecessary agitation.

This agitation was contrived by the party with the sole purpose of creating martyrs.

KILLING DALITS & OBCS

The illiterate agitators were brain washed by false propaganda that converted them into fiery activities. It was all started as a labour agitation demanding higher wages and bonus for the agricultural labour and other workers. The agitation was formally launched at the beginning of 1946. In fact by March these two issues were solved through a negotiated settlement between the labour unions and the royal govt. represented by the Diwan, Sir C.P. Ramaswami Iyer. Following this settlement the agitation should have come to an end and declared withdrawn. However, the party resolved to continue the agitation taking advantage of the belligerent mood and environment for the benefit of the party.

E.M.S. TREACHERY

To every sensible man’s astonishment the party continued the agitation with redoubled vehemence, knowingly adding to the list some irrelevant and unrealisable demands that were meant to instigate the labour-workers. It was clear that the party was determined to convert the favourable developments into a very effective instrument to strengthen the party, keeping an eye on the immediate and distant political future in Kerala. Many young vibrant lives of OBCs and Dalits were sacrificed for no compelling reasons that had any relations with the interest of the working class as such.

E.M.S. MIXED MARX WITH MANU

The whole scheme was devised by the party stalwarts under the guidance and leadership of EMS and Co. just to rebuild the communist party into a political force in Kerala.

EMS and other leaders had left the place before the police firing. While the firing was taking place at Punnapra, EMS was addressing a meeting of his own caste men at Malappuram district.

Such was the treachery committed by this notorious communist leader. Ever since then the party has been using this unfortunate episode in which many innocent lives were lost rather deliberately given by the party for getting killed for the sake of the party. Creating false martyrs have always been communist party’s agenda and they seize every opportunity to achieve this goal at the cost of the innocent Dalits and OBCs. They don’t in the process bother how many innocent lives are lost throwing to wilderness their kith and kins. The party is interested only in promoting party and in the prosperity of a few leaders.

GHERAO, BANDH, HARTAL

EMS by his cunning interpretations actually shortened the distance between Marx and Manu.

In order to achieve this goal he made use of his knowledge in the Vedas and their Brahminical interpretations made by Brahmin scholars with their uncompromising commitment to protect the interest of the traditional ruling class in India.

The EMS worshippers of today, whose adulations know no bound, do not realise the fact that the world is no more prone to take them seriously. Virtually all the steps he mooted and implemented ostensibly to safeguard the interest of the labour class, both agricultural and industrial were retrograde ones and were counter productive. They have become a real menace militating against the interest of the labour class themselves.

E.M.S. DEFENDED CASTE SYSTEM

Methods and measures like gherao, bandh, hartal and similar coercive ones proved to be totally ineffective in solving issues except that they vitiated and poisoned the whole atmosphere throwing the employer- employee relationship into a mess of hatred and hostility.

As a matter of fact, communist parties in India always exploited the common mass to their advantage by creating an artificial dichotomy between the labour class and employer class. All their policies and programmes all along were to retain this divide and ever widen it with an unfounded view to strengthen the party to the level of omnipotence.

He had no hesitation in upholding Brahminism. He says:

The caste system is a boon to our society. The past glory of Kerala was the contribution of the caste system in which the Aryan Brahmins played a key role. The present day Kerala culture is a gift of that Brahminical culture. Though the Untouchable majority had no access to the then political and administrative systems they have provided a remarkable socio-cultural and political order. We should feel proud in that system.

(Keralam Malayalikalude Mathrubhoomi).

E.M.S. HATED NARAYANA GURU

To him Sri Narayana Guru, the revolutionary saint of Kerala, is a mere caste leader. It was EMS who propounded the theory of “economic reservation” and “creamy layer” to cheat the OBCs and the religious minorities.

INTELLECTUAL FILTH

In fact it was this notorious leader who killed the spirit of the social revolution in Kerala initiated by the OBC and Dalit leaders through a counter revolution in the pretext of a communist revolution, misinterpreting Marx and Engels.

All the works of EMS help us to understand how materialist conception is used to misinterpret Indian history and Kerala history. Where facts are absent he creates them with the help of the assumed models, where facts are present he ignores them if they do not fit into the models. This non-history base don non-facts of EMS have gone deep into the minds of his followers. They still hold on to that out-moded theory and produce much intellectual filth and call their work “scientific history”.

E.M.S. HATED MUSLIMS

EMS is a notorious opportunist. Under his inspiration the party always adopted anti-minority stands with an eye on the Hindu vote bank. He believed and made the party to believe that by exercising this policy, a Hindu polarisation in favour of the party could be achieved leading to electoral victory. At the beginning of every election in Kerala, the party very skilfully diverted the attention of the Muslims from even the hottest local issues directly affecting the community’s interest which have been evading solution for long to general international issues. By this insincere show of solidarity with the global Muslim community, the latent Muslim emotion are roused and taken practical advantage of.

EMS and the party under him never, ever wanted the prosperity of the minorities, particularly Muslims in India. They on the contrary, have done everything to block the community’s progress — educational, economic, social and political.

The typical example is that of West Bengal where the party is in power for 37 years almost without break.

SACHAR REPORT

The over-all condition of the community in West Bengal is alarmingly below the national average. This is emphatically highlighted by the Sachar Committee Report, appointed by the central govt. to study the Muslim minority’s over-all status in relation to other population segments in India.

“Hunt with the hound and run with the hare”, is the policy advocated by EMS for the party.

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