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dated February 3, 1957: Communist Party support

Mr. Ajoy Ghosh, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India, said in Patna on February 1 that as yet he did not see any prospect of his party forming a Government in any State except West Bengal. "I think, however, that the left forces in general and the Communist Party in particular will emerge stronger than today." Supporting Mr. Nehru's foreign policy, he said the CPI would give all support to the Congress Government on its stand on Kashmir as it was a national issue. The CPI's opposition to the Congress did not mean that it would not support the Congress on this issue. However, Mr. Ghosh alleged that Mr. Nehru's socialism was a repudiation of all that a socialist stood for. One need only go through the record of Mr. Nehru's Government for the last ten years to test if it stood for socialism or not. During this period, the rich had grown richer and the poor poorer. The burden of taxation had fallen heavily not on the rich, but on the poor as statistics would show. Nor had land been given to the tiller.

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