As someone who is convinced that Indian Communists serve as a Chinese fifth column in our beloved Bharat Mata, I look for every chance to expose their treasonous behaviour. Generally, it’s hard to catch our comrades red-handed. Unlike the common or garden variety of Indian politician, Communists tend to be clever creatures full of obfuscation, ideological mumbo-jumbo and deception. When they speak for China, they do so in a way that makes your average newspaper reader think they are speaking in India’s national interest. But last week Commissar Karat’s Chinese knickers were on full display.

Speaking in Kolkata at probably the only event left in the world that continues to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Soviet revolution, the Commissar had this to say:

“We shall not rest in our fight till strategic ties with the US are snapped ... India is a prize for the US and not Pakistan because of its market. Developed India can be useful for counter-balancing China. This is a game the US is trying to play which has to be foiled.”

Comrade Karat said the US was trying to contain China because, by the middle of this century, the Chinese economy would equal that of the US and this would make it “the most powerful socialist country capable of challenging the might of the US.”

We know that our Marxists hate the US and in equal and opposite measure love China as the sole surviving Marxist superpower. So to me what was most interesting about Commissar Karat’s statement was that reference to a “developed” India being used to balance China.

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