The wedding invitation of Salem District Secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI)’s son went viral on social media as it read “Socialism weds Mamata Banerjee.” In a world where leaders who claim to be ‘communists’ have Sanskrit origin names or are named after gods, this secretary’s sons’ names grab eyeballs since they are named Communism, Leninism and Socialism.
His third son Socialism, who is now engaged to be married, is a silversmith. His bride-to-be is named Mamata Banerjee, since her parents are staunch loyalists to the Congress Party, and had named their daughter after the current Chief Minister of West Bengal, who was an up-and-coming political presence two decades ago. Despite their opposing political ideologies, the two families are very close and are now marrying their youngest children to each other. What’s more, is that the oldest brother’s son is named Marxism.
“Communism will be there till humanity is alive,” says Mohan, the proud father of three men. “Enrolling my boys in school was real trouble. Teachers were shell shocked and taken aback on hearing the names. As students, they were bullied by their peers and used to come back complaining to me. As they got into college, things got much better as the peers are fairly aware of the ideologies by then” the father recalled to Zee media.
The wedding is set to take place amidst COVID restrictions in their native village of AK Patti Kaattoor in Salem, Tamil Nadu and it is the same village that has children named all sorts of things like Vietnam, Czechoslovakia, Russia, Romania.
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