nothing left for 'Left'

With all the smoke & confusion going on with presidential elections in India, I was thinking about something else. In all the newspapers, there was no news on what the Left parties (CPI, CPM and don't know how many more) are thinking about. Old documents have come out from the closet to show, how Pratibha Patil played a major role in establishing a bank and then gave loans to her own relatives which were later not even recovered. The bank licence was revoked by RBI later. But in all this chaos, where are the left parties, are they still supporting the candidature of Pratibha Patil? Well seems like they are, which in turn means that Left is again due to make another historic blunder. I'm so sick & tired of there blunders. Lets take a historic tour to see what all they have done till now and I'm afraid after regaining these thoughts, all of you will agree with me that left has nothing left with them.

• In 1939 the Communists deserted Subhash Chandra Bose's Left Consolidation Committee and later, after he formed the Indian National Army, called him a "Quisling". The nationalists in Bengal were greatly offended. To make amends Jyoti Basu admitted, long after in 1970 at a Netaji Exhibition in Calcutta that his party was wrong in its assessment of the leader. That is what is known as eating crow.
• In 1942 when Gandhiji called upon the British to Quit India, the Communists betrayed the Congress and the country. When Hitler attacked Poland, the CPI had called it an Imperialist War. But when the Fuehrer attacked the Soviet Union, the same CPI decided the war had become a People's War. Between 1942 and 1944, the CPI betrayed several Congress underground workers to the police for which it was liberally paid by the British Government.
• When India became free, that freedom was dismissed as false and Jawaharlal Nehru was dismissed as a lackey - the phrase used was 'running dog' - of Anglo-American imperialism. This went on for a long time until the party found itself out of national alignment. It had to change tracks to gain respectability.
• When China attacked India in 1962, followers of the Mao line within the CPI called India the aggressor to form the CPI(M). The CPI(M) shamelessly and traitorously criticised its own country. Mao Tse-tung was raised to sainthood in Calcutta. To this day there is a Mao Tse-tung Sarani in Calcutta. Mao has been practically disowned in his own country but not by the CPM
• It was the CPM again which spawned the Naxalite movement of 'annihilating' the class enemy. The CPM is accountable to the nation for the number of murders committed by the Naxalites. It was only after the death of Charu Mazumdar in 1972 that the CPM saw the light.
• It was the CPI, under S A Dange. that supported the Emergency in 1975. Three years later the party again had to admit that it had committed a blunder. No doubt another historic blunder.

Throughout its turbulent history the Communist Party has been anti-national and when it has not been pro-Soviet Union it has been pro-Communist China but never pro-India. The Communist Party
abounds in disgrace. Time and time again the party has been on the wrong side of the fence. And now again, by supporting a corrupt person for the highest post in country, they're yet to do another historic blunder in there life.

Might be this is one event which will trigger the chain reaction and 'Left' will be left no more.