Sir,

I am writing to congratulate the Party for having received an invitation to participate in a Seminar organized by the Desh Bhagat Yaadgaar Committee in Punjab on the great Ghadar of 1857, and for its participation. I am thankful for the report on the interjection made by the Party Spokesman. Through the interjections a significant articulation of the Party's stand on the commemoration of the 1857 events has been realized. Of note are the specific historicity of the commemoration that is taking place at a time when the ruling circles in the country are flexing their muscles in an effort to emerge as a world power to be reckoned with. In order to meet this end and also to continue their enrichment at an ever increasing rate they have sought to roll back every single advance that society has made, by attacking the rights of working people and the peasantry and laying the youth of country bare to the most vicious exploitation at their hands as well as at the hands of the economic interests of US imperialism. Through the continued entrenchment of Eurocentric theories of nationhood and statecraft, a roadblock to the political development of India has been created to the detriment of all its peoples. Also of note, something which has not been touched upon in this report, is that under these conditions, the nations that comprise India face an even greater trampling of their national rights, as an imperial India prepares to dictate terms to all countries in its sphere of influence.

A commemoration of the events of 1857 that would be faithful to its martyrs would be one where a thorough debate on what constitutes today's India and what its future is takes place. The future that the martyrs of 1857 sought would be one in which the peoples of India would live lives of dignity and happiness fit for human beings, free of want, poverty, injustice and one of respect of the rights of the vast nations and tribes that constitute it, something quite different from a future that is envisioned by India's present day ruling circles as described earlier. Through its activities and its line CGPI is playing the most constructive role in the direction of meeting the goals for which the martyrs of 1857 laid down their lives. I compliment the party on its initiative in this regard.

Sincerely,

A. Narayan, Bangalore