India Government’s involvement in so-called elections in Iraq

Blatant move to shield US aggressors

Comrade Nihar Mukherjee, General Secretary, SUCI, in a statement issued on August 31, strongly reacted against the reported concurrence of the Government of India to getting involved in the holding of so-called “elections” in Iraq and Afghanistan, which is nothing but a simple eyewash to hide the naked aggression of the US imperialists and a subtle attempt to “legalize” the illegal occupation of these two sovereign countries by the US rulers.

Comrade Mukherjee further said that after the US imperialists, in the face of stiff resistance from the Indian people, had failed to drag the Indian army into Iraq, this is a fresh attempt and a clever ploy on the part of the Indian Government to fall in line with the US rulers in the sinister move to foist puppet regimes on these countries and thereby appease and oblige the US imperialists. Comrade Mukherjee, therefore, demanded that the Government of India led by the Congress and supported by the CPI(M), CPI must desist from having heinous collaboration with the US imperialists, strictly adhere to the path of non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries and that it must under no circumstances associate itself with the aforesaid move of the US rulers.