Imphal, November 26 2009: (Contd from yesterday's issue) .

The statement observed that the second condition, the external one, for the victory of our liberation struggle is the sharpening of India's internal contradictions to the extent of disintegration of its strength.

This will come to pass when those contradictions inherent in the formation of the Indian Union and other social contradictions sharpening to a boiling point.

The UNLF expressed this possible scenario as a hypothesis several years ago.

In fact, this internal phenomenon of India is coming into sharp focus.

It stated that w today's India is no longer the India of Nehru and Indira Gandhi.

Today's India is competing with China on the road to become the world's largest economy.

India is also a leading country in Information Technology.

In space technology, India has closed in the gap with the USA and Russia and has already entered the privilege club of nuclear powers.

In missile technology, India has built Ballistic and Cruise Missiles on its own thereby perfecting the delivery system of their nuclear weapons, and the Indian Army still enjoys the status of being the third largest army in the world.

All these factors have made India look powerful.

However, despite the phenomenal expansion of their economy, despite the advancement in space technology, despite having the third largest army in the world, despite having a stockpile of nuclear weapons, unmistakable symptoms of internal disintegration is emerging.

It pointed out that during the Nehru era, the Congress Party wielded monopoly of state power throughout India.

But with the decline of the Congress Party as result of fragmentation and lack of competent leadership, the monopoly of state power is no longer in their hands.

Though the Congress Party have improved their position in the last parliamentary elections and formed an alliance government in the centre, other parties have captured power in several states of India where the Congress Party has been completely isolated.

This shows that with the emergence of regional power centres, New Delhi is no longer the exclusive power centre of India.

This is in fact the phenomenon of disintegration of the existing structure of India which is claimed to be a federal union, but in essence a unitary structure.

As the process has already started rolling, the central government will have to concede more autonomy to the states.

Even some states may like to become independent while maintaining a nominal relationship with India.

In their bid to grab political power, political parties in India, particularly the Congress Party, resorted to debased horse-trading involving hundreds of crores of rupees.

This political horse-trading has forfeited whatever moral authority the Central Government had in the past and now not a single party in India has the moral authority to rule India as a whole, it stated.

On the Maoist Revolution, the statement observed that the 'Naxalite Movement' that began in 1967 led by the then Communist Party of India (ML) had undergone a tortuous path of factions and groupings before reuniting ultimately as the CPI (Maoist).

Now the Maoists have consolidated their mass base in seven States of mainland India which will cover about 25% of the Indian landmass.

With the rapid expansion of the capitalist economy of India during the past 42 years, class contradictions have sharpened to the level of breaking out a social revolution.

Thus it would not be farfetched to observe that the Maoist revolution has taken firm roots among the exploited classes of India which has grown beyond the suppressive power of the feudal-bourgeois Indian state.

The Maoist revolution being based on the exploited peasantry and the proletariat has the force of 75% of the Indian population.

So when just about 35% out of the 75% join the revolution actively and spread into the urban areas, the complexion of the Indian revolution will acquire a qualitative change.

And when the chronic social division of caste contradiction in Indian society is transformed into class contradiction, when all the exploited classes who have been deprived of their share of economic development join the revolution led by the CPI (Maoist), distinct conditions for the success of the Indian revolution will emerge.

Thus, the sharpening of internal contradictions weakening India's inner strength and the emergence of the CPI (Maoist), which recognise the sovereignty of Manipur, as a powerful revolutionary force in India are favour able factors for the liberations struggles of Manipur and the entire Region as a whole, it stated.

Therefore, the statement added, the difference in specific conditions and objectives notwithstanding, the UNLF believes that there is a common interest in the fight against the Indian state by the CPI (Maoist) and the liberation struggles of Manipur and the Region.

Guided by this perspective, the UNLF shall actively pursue a policy of mutual help and support with the Indian revolution through the CPI (Maoist).

(To be continued) .

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