A seasoned politician like the General secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Prakash Karat is capable enough to read the mood of people................and read it fast. He has justificably expressed pessimism over the formation of a third front, and denied that an anti-communal convention to be held on October 30 in New Delhi will try to seek out possibilities of forming a third front.He replied to a query on the sidelines of a convention for Muslim rights,“There is no third front now,”.
A drastic change has silently taken place in Indian politics, unnoticed by many political pundits; like in eighties or nineties of previous century, what was an era of regional parties mushrooming fast and huge coalition parties alignment was called as the necessity of the day,but now a crucial change is visible that reflects a gradual switch to bipolar party system in election results, seen in the states and moving to central elections. With the gradual rise in education level and increase in % of youth in electoral voters, the communalism and casteism is giving way to growth and development needs of people,the voters, mainly the youths are rapidly switching the post in the playing ground.
Though the change in playing conditions is well understood by Karat, but he still believed in making a desperate last attempt in wooing the traditional minority supporters, when he said, "the anti-communal convention was all the more relevant now as the RSS had decided to fully back Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate".
Mr. Karat accused, "with the Bharatiya Janata Party appeasing the majority, and the Congress using the minorities as vote banks, the actual issues of the Muslim community would persist". He said,“for the Congress, Muslims represent votes … for the RSS and the BJP, their version of democracy is the rule of the Hindu majority,” .
INDIA HONEST feels that this seems to be a miscalculation or judgement error on his part , when the majority of moderates and youths in the minorities is making fast adjustments with development tuned Modi, while remaining disinterested in Rahul's communal deluge.
An IH report* from Muzffernagar camps opens the faulty myth of Rahul's secular credentials,: *"Such is the anger at a relief camp in neighbouring Khairana, the riot hit victims have even contemplated burning an effigy of Rahul Gandhi. Abdul Qadeer of Lisarh village, cried, "What does he mean by this statement? The whole day people from the media have come to us with ridiculous questions like 'are we aligned with India or with Pakistan' or 'how many calls have we received from Pakistan," .
IH cautions, the so called secular parties, that it's time to change and go with mainstream politics of growth and good governance, before it is too late.