Ashok Dhawale
THE CPI(M) Central Committee organised a five-day all India Hindi camp for its leading activists on the kisan front at the Harkishan Singh Surjeet Bhawan in New Delhi from August 27-31, 2024. During the last few years, the kisan front has been organising a number of state level camps at the mass front level. But this was perhaps the first time that a Party camp for kisan cadres was held in Hindi at the all India level.
The camp was attended by 103 activists from the following 15 States – Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, and Maharashtra. A similar All India camp for kisan front activists in English will be organised soon.
The ten subjects and their teachers in the camp were as follows:
Relevance of Marxism today, and socialism in the 21st century - Prakash Karat; dialectical and historical materialism with reference to India - Badal Saroj; overview of Indian history, freedom struggle, and role of communists - Prof Amar Farooqui; political economy and agrarian challenges in India today - Prof Vikas Rawal; grave danger of hindutva and how to combat it - Subhashini Ali; identity politics and how to deal with it - Brinda Karat; Party programme and agrarian revolution - Ashok Dhawale; Party organisation, Party and mass organisations - Prakash Karat; history of the kisan movement, and of the AIKS - Hannan Mollah; and tasks on the kisan front - ideological, political, agitational, organisational - Vijoo Krishnan.
All the above sessions were educative and effective, and were followed by state wise group discussions and question answer sessions.
A lot of reading material, which comprised eight booklets in the Party Education Series and seven more detailed notes on the various topics taken in the camp, was given to all the participants.
The various sessions were chaired by leaders of the kisan front – Hannan Mollah, Vijoo Krishnan, P Krishnaprasad, Badal Saroj, Inderjit Singh, Awadhesh Kumar, Vinod Singh, Pema Ram, Mukut Singh, Major Singh, and Ajay Burande.
CPI(M) Central Committee member, Kisan Front vice president and newly-elected MP Amra Ram greeted the camp. Amra Ram and Kisan Front finance secretary P Krishnaprasad, accompanied by vice president Pabitra Kar, went to Tripura on August 29-30 and saw the terrible flood situation there. Krishnaprasad briefly reported the heart-rending situation of the people and the callous attitude of the BJP state government in dealing with this calamity.
CPI(M) Central Secretariat member and kisan front general secretary Vijoo Krishnan announced that the AIKS centre would immediately send Rs 5 lakh for flood relief to Tripura, and called upon all states to collect relief fund. Figures of the fund collected by states for Wayanad landslide relief in Kerala were placed.
The eye-opening film 'Deja Vu' made by Bedabrata Pain, with a Hindi commentary by Naseeruddin Shah, was screened one evening. It was appreciated by all. Taking the iconic one year long victorious farmers’ struggle in India against the three hated farm laws of the Modi regime as its background, the film depicts the disastrous condition of farmers in the USA who were the targets of the vicious pro-corporate and neo-liberal policies of successive governments – both Republican and Democratic – in the USA since the 1980s.
The introduction, conclusion, and vote of thanks of the camp was done by CPI(M) Polit Bureau member and kisan front president Ashok Dhawale.
The camp concluded with great enthusiasm, and with the determination to advance the Party and the kisan front in all these 15 states.
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