Bangalore: Indian Peoples Front (IPF) once impressed us so much that we even wrote an editorial praising it. But when it opposed the Mandal Commission report at its Boat Club rally last year, we knew that the upper castes/Aryans heading this “Naxalite” party was doomed to death. And our predictions proved right.
The Marxist-Leninist explanation of “class struggle” is not suitable to India. Because there are no “classes” in India. There are any number of “poor” Brahmins but they all voted against the Janata Dal because it stood by the Mandal. “Poor Brahmins” went with the BJP, the party of the “rich”. This is the dilemma of India. SC/ST/BCs and Muslims are persecuted in India not because they are “poor” but because they are opposed to Aryan values. “Poor Brahmins” voted for the BJP not because they are poor but because they are Aryans.
The IPF headed by Aryans used marxism to fool Bihar’s SC/ST/BCs who refused to be fooled and voted for Janata Dal headed by Lalloo Prasad Yadav Mandal turned caste alliances and equations urged by the IPF upside down. Besides failing to retain the lone Arrah seat in Parliament, there has been a general decline in the IPF votes by nearly 30 to 40%. In 1989, the IPF had fielded 11 candidate and succeeded in capturing the lone Arrah seat. In six constituencies, namely Arrah, Jainabad, Bikram Ganj, Patna, Aurangabad and Nalanda, its candidates polled between 50,000 and over 1,50,000 votes. This time, the IPF fielded 16 candidates apparently to make its presence more visible. But except for a marginal increase in votes polled by IPF candidates in Nalanda, Hazaribagh and Kodama, its share of votes has decreased by one-third. In Arrah, the sitting MP was placed third receiving 62,000 votes less than in 1989. Except for Sahar, in all the other six Assembly segments of Arrah, the IPF’s share of votes has come down. In Jainabad also the Front lost nearly 50,000 votes. In Bike and Aurangabad, the story is the same.
