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Fascist Police

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In the 2020 Kerala Police activity report which was accessed by this reporter, under the “Counter Radicalization Program”, only Muslims are mentioned as the target group of re-radicalisation. Nowhere is mentioned about RSS and their presence in temples and about CASA. 
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What about the 1951 land reform?

- it was only a middle caste reform

- only syrian christians, nairs and muslims benefitted

            - this effectively lead to a strengthening of the caste system by amplifying the hegimony of the shudras

- landless peasants (dalits, adivasis, etc..) were completely excluded

            - leading to them living in ghettos called as "colonies"

- land ceiling was 20 acres. but not applied to "estates". "estates" were 60% of the arable land.

            - many landlords, who had cash crops, self-designated their land as estates to get around land ceiling

- land reform is usually associated with a jump in agricultural productivity, but we see this hasn't happened significantly

- 2 lakh families are completely landless (and homeless) even now.

- former "estate" land is lying unused. huge land. huge landless people.

- due to middle caste hegemony, CPI/M have ignored/de-prioritized distribution of the "extra-land" even after decades of rule at state Government

Thus it is a very incomplete and inadequate "land reform" which cannot be called as a "peasant revolution"

[Source: Youtube video by Sunny Kapikad]

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