Prakash Karat, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), is a traitor. He has been lying to the people of India that his opposition to the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal is based on principle. The principle being that the ‘Hyde Act’ or the so called 123 agreement is not in the national interest. There are many people in India and all over the world who have been quite skeptical about this deal from the beginning. But their apprehensions are based on their bitter experience with the United States and Europe, after the 1974 nuclear tests by India and the Western sanctions imposed on India thereafter. None of us have been predisposed towards opposing anything American. Prakash Karat pretends to be concerned about our national interests. The fact of the matter is that his opposition to the Indo-US nuclear deal is because of his pathological hatred for the United States. Karat is the kind of a demagogue that would deny food aid to millions of people dying of hunger, if the aid happens to be coming from America. Do you think Karat is a nationalist?
Prakash Karat was born in Rangoon, Burma on February 7, 1948. His father worked with the British Railways. The Karats are Nairs from Elappully, Kerala. Prakash Karat lost his father while still in school and moved to Madras with his mother Radha and sister Kamala. The sister died in her teens and the mother took up a job as an LIC (Life Insurance Corporation of India) agent. Karat was educated at the Madras Christian College as an undergraduate student of Economics. He graduated with a gold medal and won a scholarship to Britain’s University of Edinburgh, for a Masters’ degree in politics. It was at Edinburgh that he met with Professor Victor Kiernan, the famed Marxist and became a strident communist. His political activism began with anti-apartheid protests at the University. Karat returned to India in 1970 and joined the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He became an aide to the party leader A K Gopalan, the legendary communist leader from Kerala. Prakash Karat was elected to the Central Committee of the CPI (M) in 1985 and became a member of the ‘Politburo’ in 1992. He took over as the youngest-ever General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in 2005 at Talkatora Stadium in Delhi.
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