What Does It Mean to Be Left in Contemporary India? | Yogendra Yadav | Chintha Ravi Memorial Lecture 

A thought provoking speech, kudos to Mr. Yadav, you are a 💎

Respect for this man after election result prediction 📈

I wait for every opportunity to listen to Mr. YY and I leave with some wisdom.

This is that talk about the 'Left' that i finally heard for the first time in my life. More than that, this is an inspirational, simply through its wisdom and structure. Expressed with Yogendra ji's characteristic humility. Much gratitude to him.

Left is not a positional concept but a relational concept. Nailed it

Thank you so much, Dr. for your insightful thoughts on the indepth meaning of the "left." 🙏 'Left' is to resist, protest and to practice. 👍

A highly logical ,real, and pragmatic analysis of contemporary, social,political, economic, secular scenario of India. 🌹

Yes. He clarified our confusion. We need to re orient our concept of left. 💪🏾

An illuminating speech from an erudite scholar . His highlights on degradation of political scenario and climate by the onslaught of right wing BJP are astounding, precise and mind blowing. His observation on *Preamble * is a lesson Fortunate to listen to a thinker of Yadav ji 's stature. His incisive observations on contemporary disgraceful political situation are amazing and thought provoking . Regards to Yadav ji

Extremely eye opener to many of us. Yogendra Yadav is no doubt an intelligent learned gentleman but open minded to welcome good thoughts from wherever they come. Indians one abd all should accept his ideas about India abd her ideal democratic set up. I always listen to him and his depth of talks.

Very nicely said Yogendra ji. Really appreciate. Indeed we need to wake up and save our democracy

Absolutely amazed by your deep intellectual deliberations... Thank you🙏❤

Very inspiring, insightful, honest.... Thank you

Very thought provoking speech .

If all could most politicians listen to YY and his wisdoms...

Great speech.

Means you. Living example.

Great man !!

Brilliant. Very insightful.. Thank you, Yogendraji

Crystal clear thoughts with reasonably good oratory. Thanks for sharing.

Excellent reflection ❤

It is always pleasurable to listen to such a learned and wise personality like Yogendra Yadav.

It’s a good lecture given by Jogendra Jadav.

Sir it is very thoughtfull and inner meaning leactur also very inspiring to all of us.

Many thanks for your lucid presentation and commitment

Very thought provoking speech. I haven't recently heard anybody analysing Indian polity so deep and wide. Excellent.

Totally mesmerized by YY ideas and the way he delivered them

Wonderful YY 🎉🎉❤❤

Very informative, thought-provoking, and inspirational

Quite a thought-provoking address.

Great analytical skills

Very beautiful, brilliant analytical expression. Moreover, it's a very open hearted discussion.

Superb!

so beautifully said , each and every thought crystal clear. much respect

- The CPM has a state and a national leadership - They are able to discuss and form a strategy after detailed discussion - A Single Opinion maker may not be Correct , but a Collective decision can be

Wonderful thaught of formation of "Radical-Democratic-Republican"as a 2nd phase of Republic State of India Wonderfully Y.Jadavji defined What is' left'and so Left is dead now. Therefore there is none as"Left"not we need to be" left" We need to be Radical force based on Marxism not on various practices I appreciate him whole heartedly

People of India will bounce back shortly.

very nice speech Dr.yy' speech. he speaks about sanatan religion and preamble of constitution, review of constitution. many many thanks to respected yadav.

The problem with the official left, particularly in India, is that they have become fossilised. To combat the crony capitalism, religious majoritarianism and Brahmanical social order as represented by the present RSS-BJP led Hindutva hegemony, we need a far broader left thinking coalition that represents the oft forgotten bottom of the pyramid. We have forgotten that to be left is to stand up for the oppressed, the downtrodden, the marginalised, it is also to be compassionate and caring. Yogendra Yadav has succinctly outline the challenge ahead for those who are on the left, that is, opposed to the present establishment.

Yogendra Yadav Candid and formidable

A very inspiring speech but the official Left leaders and their Bhakts will raise eyebrows

Beautiful intellectual discourse Yogendra Sir. Country needs you to lead. Words “यह लोग समानता की बात करते हैं” from mouth of Nadda explains everything

Good talk and new ideas , kudos

Yogendra Yadav Candid and formidable leadership speech

Yes yes yes I agree Everywhere is a left Waiting to your call.

I hope Prof. Yadav does write more about the legacies of 'Ganatantras' in Ancient India, as promised around @38.20. Then we could have a very interesting debate and discussion between him and Prof. Irfan Habib, who has stated, quite legitimately so, on record that Indic indigenous societies did NOT have democratic polity, we only had varna systems, and therfore we are not 'Mother of democracy' as ruling party claims, democracy itself was an import from Ancient Greece. So we had Republics without democracy, when the two seem so entwined, must be discussed further in a historical light. Thanks Prof. Yadav

Very stimulating. Vasanthi Raman

Discarded in the north. Fortune hunting in south and elsewhere. Dwindling career was revived by Rahul at a time when Rahul launched his Pada Yatra (BJY) from Kanyakumari. Ever since then YY has been Rahul's man-friday. Thanks to Rahul, Dr YY has been successfully grabbing occasional headlines, mostly in social media, after 2024 election results. Prof YY is a good match for Mr Annamala, x-IPS. One is the inverse version of the other. They produce same effect from opposite sides. PM Modi used Annamala extensively for his election campaign in 2024 and predictably Annamala returned with Zero seats for Modi. Prof YY has been in the national political arena for more than two decades now. He also calls himself a Psephologist. Neither in politics nor in assessment of election and prediction of election outcomes he had any noteworthy role, contribution or success. Infact all his past Electoral predictions have been dismal and way off the mark. Only time Dr YY seemed to have done justice to the tag of Psephologist is in prediction of 2024 general elections despite his assessments lacking in coherence and credibility. This is proved by the fact that the reasons given by him in his assessments pre and post election results are completely different. Anyway unqualified credit is may be allowed to him for coming good one time and for being better than PK. Unqualified because none of his assessments are backed by any data or based on rigorous analysis and objective evaluation. At best his success this time is attributable to the Law of Averages coming good in his favour for the first time. That is inherent in statistics in the longlast. It was speculative and not scientific.

An intellectual, meaningful and thought provoking speech. I am sorry, I never could measure correctly the depth of ideology and opinions of Dr. Yogendr Yadav.

I don't know if I am left, right or centre. I am willing to learn and act for the betterment of our society, to the best of my ability. What does that make me? The answer is... It doesnt matter. What matters is I am doing the best for my betterment of my country and society.

I am a leftist in my heart...it is a leaning...I can never be a right.

Last resource ....our widest questioning

just unparalleled

Awesome👍👍👍 speech

Unless nation is left, there won't be any left. Please keep this in mind.

South has virtually been commanding the left movement in this country. Some words for rethinking about requisite change in pace and direction of left movement are always needed. They need to develop resiliency.

Yogendra Yadav must be taught in universities.

Perfect analysis ❤❤❤❤

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This man has great potentiality. He is like Jayprakash Narayan.

Revolutionary speech that ll revive the Left...

Sir one of the resources are the values mentioned in the UDHR. They are universal in their appeal and acceptable globally. Championing the reduction of wealth inequality is being discussed internationally and applies to India also.

Directive principles of Indian Constitution waiting for own no.

Before vivekananda chaitanya said abou socialism and annihilation of casteism also he introduced long march in the form of kirtan where all villagers used to come out ang joined with him

Jai hind excellent great man i respest you. We the people's of india or 🌎 non politicians, WE are not CLOCK or wall watch, we ware CLOCK in our hand now we people's 70%% have CLOCK in our hand (mobile) we ware mobile but we don't no running.........who is our culture Bjp, cong, rjd, samaj party, Bhutan p or any party, Now we come to religion....,Right left left right hole life gone ,this s world in some country we drive in right chair in some country we drive in left chair, in this world.....i think some people's made humans in middle like poltics, professions, art's,science or runner or not runner,,This is all not problem of india, this is the problem of polticis or social or Aryan or faith in country people's...Establishad manner of rules of conduct.......left or right or any murje party they all........

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Lost faith in all political parties 😢

Why does this man speaks so much sence of what left should mean

Nothing is eternal except CHANGE

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Mr mnroy srarted the communist party in1925 Dr Hedgewar startedRSS the same year. Communist due to their over divisions into multiples have never been a proper National political party. Why TheLeft failed and why and how Rss succeeded in becoming big enough to rule india. MrYadav is a great speaker.

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Vehterin(संकलन के काबिल)

Great mr yadav we can only achieve second republic unless we talk about inhalation of caste, because even left is brahmin dominated so is congress and there personal benifit is in when bjp wins we cannot allow them to ne in power and in opposition at the same time.

Left is a relationship and not a position അഭിപ്രായം ഇരുമ്പുലക്ക അല്ല. നാളെ അത് മാറാം!! Make hay while the sun shines.

yes a 2nd republic has to come

Yogendra Yadav is wrong in saying that EMS got inspired by Jayaprakash Narayans book and became a Marxist. Actually EMS himself acknowledged in writing that he came to know about Marx and Lenin through the writings of Sahodaran Ayyappan..

Lohia, JP and their ilk were low grade leaders to be very mild. The blood of Gandhi had not dried and Lohia asked people to vote for Hindu Mahasbha against Jawahar lal Nehru; 63,campaigns for Deendayal U, includes Jansangh as partner. JP grew closer to RSS gradually and in 1974 merged his cause with the cause of the RSS. These guys have been the biggest enablers of BJP Rss time and time again in 1970s , 80s and and during 2012-14

He doesn't know the cpm in Kerala are not left, but extreme right. The CM is another Modi

Left(miniscule minority)is only left in JNU, kerla, jadhavpur university.

Together we fight for our democratic socialist secular republic.

मतलब जनांदोलनों के समन्वय

All this is fine, but you have to stop in your questioning somewhere and build something. You can't keep on criticising every established institution.

When yogendra yadav is upholding the left he proves just an another opportunist in Indian politics, tomorrow better mmigrate yadav to bjp .

Yadav, a brilliant political actor , nothing else.!! A wolf in a sheep's clothing!!

What it means to be left is being left (alone 😅)

Left out!

And left became the establishment!!!

Just see CPM'S 35 year rule of West Bengal

Left should stand against any domination... great to hear. But what should be done when left thoughts dominate... should we envision left of left, which is the right wing.. Isn't it what exactly happened in 2014 ??

What's this person is trying to say? He's saying that EMS was inspired by Jai Prakash Narayan's book & that's how he became a Communist? I disagree with his statement because EMS embraced Communism much before that.

Left means anti parivarvad as well in indian conditions

The party organisationl structure is according to the prescribtion of com V I LENIN

Naxals and Maoists ka balpar chalta hai Left.

Marxism without Lenin? 😢

Bjp original ideology was gandhian socialism only recently they removed it

Irony is left is losing badly in kerala 2026 , once they are out of power they are quite voulnarable and may lose their voters to bjp which is almost 19% , a bit of crysis in left can push them upto 35% this is my fear

Saying bjp is for mainly 20 percentage general community vote share is just a ideological bigotry and hypocrisy. What exactly has bjp done for general community population in india. Every policy of bjp is against general community.

Left hand no legs even I Kerala In TN pillion😢rider for decades Only mission ANTI Hindu Anti Modi Anti National Pro ultra naxal Look back from your Mp strength over last 50 years WB disappeared Tirupura. Banished vanished

Isnt pinarayi a crony capitalist?