New Delhi: The Marxist-Periyarist Communist Party says that unless smaller States like Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, Bundelkhand, Chhattisgarh, Vidarbha, Telangana, Udayachal and Mithila are created, agitations by the people of these regions and linguistic and ethnic identities will not subside and “chaos and confusion” will follow.
At a three-day convention here, it adopted a resolution asking the Centre to form a Constituent Assembly for the sole purpose of restructuring the present unitary India into a real federal set-up. The constituent units of the federation would voluntarily give certain powers to the federal Government. All-India services must be abolished and the States must be empowered to have the required machinery for recruitment.
The convention said the act of burning the effigies of Ravana, Indrajit and others every year at New Delhi as a festival and a celebration wounds the self-respect feelings of crores of South Indian people. The convention asked the Union Government to stop forthwith the “ignominious act of burning the effigies of Ravana the great, Indrajit and others. Otherwise, volunteers of the Marxist-Periyarist Communist Party would, in protest and to uphold the self-respecting principles of Parihar E.V.R. burn the pictures of Rama, Lakshman, and Sita at Ramlila Grounds in New Delhi in the ensuring year of 1992.”
It criticized the adoption of Hindi as the “sole official language of India without any clear voting in the Constituent Assembly 40 years ago.” It asked the Government to “declare immediately all the languages under the VIII Schedule of the Constitution as official languages and introduce them for administrative purposes in all Central Government offices and departments situated within the respective States. (Statesman Oct. 22)
