What if Bhagat Singh would have heard Khrushchev's speech!

I can easily recall the day when I was sitting in my office in Noida, and a news flashed in a national news channel, probably from a district of Uttar Pradesh, where some government staffs of revenue department had quit their job and extended wholeheartedly support to 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement, led by social activist Kisan Baburao Hazare popularly known as Anna Hazare.

I left Delhi in 2014 after Doordarshan hired me for the post of Business Correspondent and deployed me at Maharashtra headquarter. As my Adhar card, Voter Card and Bank accounts belong to my Delhi Address, I had to visit Delhi again in January 2017 to get driving licence done without any technical issue. Though that was not my first visit to Delhi as I visited earlier also after Aam Aadmi Party took over as ruling party but it was indeed my first trip when I had to confront the machinery under the Aam Aadmy Party government. I left stunned when transport department officials confidently tried to convince me to “save time” by not depending on proper channel and deal privately. I was expecting corruption to be curbed in AAP government but I was wrong. So, what about those government staffs of revenue department, who left their job in 2011 hoping Anna movement to produce a corruption free government.

What we had seen recently were two incidents in Kerala, first physical and second psychological. In the first incident BJP supporters vandalised a statue of Vladimir Lenin, installed in the heart of Belonia town in Tripura’s extreme south in 2013 after CPI(M) won the assembly elections and in the second incident which was psychological, left supporters dragged Indian socialist revolutionary Bhagat Singh into the current dispute and mischievously tried to compare Lenin to Bhagat Singh. They started propagating that Bhagat Singh was a follower of Lenin and in his last hour he was reading left-literature. Indian communists have always been excited to hijack Bhagat Singh so that youths could be lured easily.

Even if it’s true that Bhagat Singh was influenced by Lenin in the final hours, we must not forget that he was hanged on 23rd March, 1931, i.e around twenty four years before Lenin and his ideology was roughly exposed by Khrushchev’s secret speech on February 25, 1956. In his book “MOSSAD”, Michael Bar-Zohar Nissim Mishal, has comprehensively explained how Khrushchev’s secret speech became public and what happened thereafter. Khrushchev, rumor had it, had accused Stalin of the massacre of missions.

While listening to the speech many delegates cried and pulled out their hair in despair’ some fainted or suffered heart attacks; at least two committed suicide after that night. It was also recorded in history that not a word about Khrushchev’s revelations was published by the Soviet media. Hundreds of millions of communists, inside and outside Russia, blindly worshipped Stalin. The exposure of his crimes and could destroy their faith and perhaps even cause the collapse of the Soviet Union. Just think once had Bhagat Singh read Khrushchev’s speech, what kind of reaction would have been expected from him!

There are possibilities that Bhagat Singh, if were alive, having the same feeling, babus of revenue departments have, after witnessing regime of Aam Aadmi Party !