Neha Bora was the only youth leader who was marching on the streets of Delhi on Monday with Rahul Gandhi hand in hand with Priyanka Gandhi.
Neha has achieved this place on the basis of hard work of the last four months. Any leader within the student and youth front of Congress may be jealous of Neha as to why he could not do this.
In the 2015-2016 Jawaharlal Nehru University student union elections, Shehla Rashid was elected vice-president of 'All India Students Union' (AISA), the student wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation.
Kanhaiya Kumar from All India Students Federation, the student wing of the Communist Party of India, won the post of president.
Along with Kanhaiya, Shehla was also very popular at that time and was aggressive on the Narendra Modi government at the Centre. Shehla separated from AISA and later started sympathizing with Narendra Modi's government. On the other hand, Kanhaiya joined Congress.
It is not a new thing for leaders of student organizations of communist parties in JNSU to join Congress but Shehla Rashid's stance was shocking.
In such a situation, the question is arising that what will be the attitude of Neha Bora? The second question is why is Congress giving so much attention to Neha Bora? The third question is why no Neha Bora or Kanhaiya Kumar is able to emerge from within the Congress?
Will Neha join Congress?
Abhijeet Majumdar, politburo member of CPIM(L) and son of Charu Majumdar, the father of Naxal movement, says that Neha is doing only what is agreed upon in the party or as per the instructions of the party.
Abhijeet Majumdar says, "The party is also increasing Neha's courage. It is not that she is doing all this by going outside the party. Neha is not the only one in this. It is possible that his courage and his passion are being revealed to most people right now. Media coverage is also happening. Neha never said that she is different. Just because we are doing a democratic movement does not mean that we are not communists.
Abhijeet Majumdar says, "Priyanka Gandhi is walking with her hand on her shoulder, it does not mean that Neha will join Congress tomorrow." There is no such fear in the party's mind regarding Neha. If you are looking at it in the mirror of the past then the basis for talking may be correct but now the situation is completely different. Listening to Neha here, you will never feel that she is promoting herself. He is not there in it. She is carrying exactly the legacy of communist currents.
Deepsita Dhar, leader of Students Federation of India (SFI), CPI(M)'s student organization, also believes that Neha Bora is different from Kanhaiya in the sense that she is not an individualist.
Deepsita says, "I hope that Neha will strengthen the communist movement and not join Congress." Neha is committed to the communist movement and I see her completely different from Kanhaiya. Communist leaders go to power in Congress because they feel that it is difficult to win elections by staying here.
Deepsita says, "I hope from Congress that in future also it will accept Neha's communist stance and not as a Congressman."
Abhijeet Majumdar says that you cannot see Neha in Kanhaiya's mirror. He says, “See, the ecosystem of Kanhaiya and Neha is completely different. When Kanhaiya became popular, his distance from CPI increased. Neha is strengthening AISA.
''She is not considering herself above the party. Neha is more committed than Kanhaiya. Dipankar himself was saying that Neha has more followers than him. But this is not a fear for us. This is our achievement. Neha has stood on her feet as a young communist. In Shehla's case, we doubt ourselves for not being able to get her committed properly.
Why so much attention?
Rahul Gandhi later met workers of leftist organizations after the protests at Jantar Mantar ended in July. Neha was also involved in this. Even then Rahul had maintained distance from CJP leaders. Why is Rahul Gandhi giving so much attention to Neha?
Abhijeet says, “They have no other option.” Congress was initially seeing CJP as a threat. The experience of Anna Hazare's movement has not been erased from the mind of Congress. Abhijeet and Ashutosh are also joining AAP. In such a situation, Congress felt that there must be some RSS game behind this.
"In such a situation, Rahul did not see any danger in keeping Neha and other communist youth together. Rahul felt that the way Neha was raising her voice, she should keep pace with her. We are also seeing something different in Rahul. Sometimes what he says sounds like leftist rhetoric. I have doubts about how much coordination Rahul has with his party.
Why is Congress not able to produce a young leader like Neha Bora or Kanhaiya Kumar within itself?
Apoorvanand, professor and political analyst at Delhi University, says, "The Congress Party has been the party of power in the last 60-70 years, since independence.
“So there is no harm in saying that Congress has not been a party of struggle. It was the party in power for 60-70 years. He didn't have to struggle for anything. You think only when you struggle. Your intelligence develops only in struggle. It has always been seen that if you are in power, your intelligence remains weak. When you go into conflict, your intelligence becomes sharper.
Professor Apoorvanand says, "You can also see this from the history of the Soviet Union." You see till the time the Communist Party came to power in the Soviet Union. From 1905 to 1917, all the writers, poets and artists belonged to the Communist Party. Writers, artists, intellectuals are all against power.
Why is a leader like Neha not able to emerge within Congress?
But the rise of Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and Neha Bora has happened in the last 12-13 years in this government. Why did this not happen within Congress?
Professor Apoorvanand says, "The nature of Congress which has become so long due to being in power, it has still not become that of opposition. It took some 13-14 years for Rahul Gandhi to make Congress a party of struggle. Till recently, if you see the entire behavior of Congress, it seems to be the party of power.
“Congress thinks that if BJP goes, who will come? We will come. So we are the party of power. It took a lot of hard work for Rahul Gandhi to make you believe that your job is to struggle, not to remain in power.
Why does the attitude of young communist leaders who join Congress soften?
Professor Apoorvanand says, "When Kanhaiya comes to Congress, his tone will change, his nature will change." I am not blaming Kanhaiya. I'm just observing. The question is whether Kanhaiya has made any compromise? Have you made any compromise with secular principles? Has Kanhaiya compromised with democratic principles? this is the question. Now people can say that he has started looking religious. Even though he appears religious, Rahul Gandhi also calls himself a devotee of Shiva.
“The identity of the street people has weakened because they got responsibility from someone else. The basic principle of communist parties is still class politics. Class politics has become like addressing a class. When you are in democratic politics, you will have to create a larger space for negotiation. If your language remains such that you will not address a class, which unfortunately not only belongs to the Communist Party but also to the social justice political parties.
"Like Lalu Yadav became confident. Mulayam Singh Yadav became confident and then failed. Because of this, such people who join communist parties feel very restricted there. Because there is no space for democratic politics there.
