12 March 2012. A World to Win News Service. India has been on a fast track to playing a more major role in the global economy. Indian and international corporations are itching to tear up the land inhabited by tribal peoples to get their hands on the riches that lie under them, minerals like bauxite, coal and iron ore. The Indian government cannot tolerate the fact that large swaths of the country are not under their control, and are determined to crush any resistance that stands in their way, especially the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and the masses hungry for radical change who make up the army they lead. In late 2009, with an array of military forces and the utmost cruelty, the Indian government unleashed a war on the people called Operation Green Hunt. Following is a press release dated 2 March, 2012 from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), signed by its spokesman, Abhay.
In the last week of February 2012, the police have arrested activists of our Party, including some senior cadres from Kolkata and Mumbai. On the specific intelligence inputs provided by the murderous Andra Pradesh Special Intelligence Bureau (APSIB), joint forces of police and Special Task Force (STF) of Andra Pradesh, Maharashtra and West Bengal have raided the shelters of our comrades in Kolkata and Mumbai suburbs and arrested at least nine comrades, including two women comrades. Comrades Sadanala Ramakrishna, Deepak Kumar Pargania, Sukumar Mandal, Bapi Mudi and Sambhu Charan were arrested from Kolkata, while Comrades Dinesh Wankhede, Aasimkumar Bhattacharya, Suman Gawde and Paru Patel were picked up from Thane in Maharashtra.
Comrades Sadanala Ramakrishna alias Santosh (62) and Aasimkumar Bhattacharya (65) were the seniors among the arrested. Senior comrade Sadanala Ramakrishna has been working for the revolution for at least four decades. He has been ailing with serious health problems for so many years. A mechanical engineer graduated from the prestigious Regional Engineering College (REC) of Warangal where other martyred leaders like Surapaneni Janardhan and Azad emerged as great revolutionaries of their times, Comrade Ramakrishna sacrificed his bright life for the cause of the liberation of the downtrodden.
Both the two women comrades arrested – Vijaya and Suman – have been undergoing medical treatment for some time, staying in the shelters outside the struggle zones. Particularly, comrade Vijaya has been suffering from serious heart problems.
The police forces, known for worst kind of cruelty, have been torturing these comrades mentally and physically while in custody. They have foisted several false cases against these comrades so that they could be languished behind bars forever.
On one hand the ruling classes are asserting that these arrests are a big success for them, and on the other hand, they are trying to portray our comrades as dangerous criminals, claiming that they have recovered huge amounts of cash and other material that is used for making arms.
These arrests are nothing but a part of Operation Green Hunt (OGH), i.e. the "War on People" which has been underway since 2009. The comprador ruling classes, in connivance with their imperialist masters, particularly with the US imperialists, have unleashed this brutal war of suppression in the poorest parts of India so that their neo-liberal policies of plunder of resources could go unhindered. They are particularly targeting the revolutionary leadership and eliminating them. As the Pentagon itself claimed recently, the US Special Forces are not only actively involved, but also assisting their Indian counterparts on the ground in the counter-insurgency operations aimed at eliminating the revolutionary leadership. This fact also shows us that the US has been patronizing in the ongoing Operation Green Hunt, making the values such as the freedom, independence, and sovereignty of our country a joke. The exploiting rulers of our country are daydreaming that this movement can be suppressed if its leadership is wiped out.
The revolutionary movement cannot be crushed with arrests and murders. The bars of the dungeons cannot restrict the revolutionary ideas from spreading among the vast masses.
The CC of CPI (Maoist) strongly condemns these arrests and the inhuman torture being inflicted on them. We demand immediate and unconditional release of these comrades, as well as all of the political prisoners languishing in various jails in all corners of our land. We also demand the lifting of all the false cases foisted against these comrades.
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India: CP(Maoist) on death of leading comrade Koteswarlu (Kishenji)
30 January 2012. A World to Win News Service. Following are excerpts from a press release signed by Abhay, spokesperson of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), dated 13 January. For the full statement see bannedthought.org.
On 24 November 2011 the Indian revolution lost its great leader and the oppressed masses of India lost their most reliable servant. November 24 would remain a dark day in the history of the Indian revolution. On 1 July 1 2010 the Indian ruling classes had murdered our Politburo member and spokesperson Comrade Azad. Within one and a half years, another Politburo member, Comrade Koteswarlu (who is popular among the people and party ranks as Kotanna, Prahlad, Ramji, Kishenji and Bimal), was caught alive in a covert operation, tortured inhumanly and was killed in a fake encounter.
In India, which claims to be the largest democracy in the world, the feudal and comprador-bureaucrat bourgeois ruling classes, with the support of the imperialists, particularly the US imperialists, are trying to suppress the democratic, national liberation and revolutionary movements with an iron heel. Particularly, since 2009 they are carrying on an unjust war on the people in the name of "Operation Green Hunt". They are shamelessly violating even the constitution and the laws formulated by themselves and are killing people, activists and leaders of the movement. They are unsuccessfully trying to justify all their unlawful murders in the name of a lie named "encounter" tracing the footsteps of the British colonial rulers. Now it is an established fact that an "encounter" anywhere in India means a conspiratorial murder by the state.
Comrade Koteswarlu was born on 26 November 1954 in Peddapalli, a town of Karimnagar district which has a legacy of the glorious Telangana armed struggle. He led the Indian revolutionary movement for nearly four decades. Comrade Koteswarlu was brought up by democratic-thinking parents and imbibed patriotic feelings and love for the oppressed people since childhood. He was a top-ranking representative of the generation after the glorious Naxalbari rebellion. Though the Naxalbari rebellion which established Maoist Protracted People's War as the path for the Indian revolution was suppressed within a few years, it had a great impact all over the country. Peasant rebellions arose in many areas following its model. It awoke the students in colleges and universities. The slogan "Naxalbari Ek Hi Rasta" (The Only Way is Naxalbari) reverberated all over the country. It was this backdrop that turned Comrade Koteswarlu into a Maoist revolutionary.
At the end of the 1970s, Comrade Koteswarlu played a crucial role in the Jagityal peasant movement and in the first decade of the 21st century he became the architect of the illustrious Lalgarh people's upsurge. He was an inspiring leader who never left the people and the cadres and who stood firmly during many an ebb and flow in the Indian revolutionary movement with courage and initiative. He was an organizer with initiative, a warrior/commander and a guide who imparted love and care. His very presence proved to be a hard nut to crack for the enemy right from the beginning. He successfully fought back several attacks and attempts to murder him. He was a tireless warrior who fought incessantly and uncompromisingly and never let go of any opportunity to attack the enemy politically and militarily.
That is why the ruling clique of this country led by Sonia-Manmohan-Chidambaram-Pranab-Jairam colluded with the Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee and killed him in the cruelest manner. The brutal signs of torture on his dead body indicate the fascist nature of the enemy, its cowardliness and its defeat. On the other hand he bore all the inhuman tortures in the hands of the enemy and emerged victorious even in the face of death. The crimson of the international red flag of the proletarians turned deeper with the blood spilled by him in Jungle Mahal.
On 24 November 2011 the Indian revolution lost its great leader and the oppressed masses of India lost their most reliable servant. November 24 would remain a dark day in the history of the Indian revolution. On 1 July 1 2010 the Indian ruling classes had murdered our Politburo member and spokesperson Comrade Azad. Within one and a half years, another Politburo member, Comrade Koteswarlu (who is popular among the people and party ranks as Kotanna, Prahlad, Ramji, Kishenji and Bimal), was caught alive in a covert operation, tortured inhumanly and was killed in a fake encounter.
In India, which claims to be the largest democracy in the world, the feudal and comprador-bureaucrat bourgeois ruling classes, with the support of the imperialists, particularly the US imperialists, are trying to suppress the democratic, national liberation and revolutionary movements with an iron heel. Particularly, since 2009 they are carrying on an unjust war on the people in the name of "Operation Green Hunt". They are shamelessly violating even the constitution and the laws formulated by themselves and are killing people, activists and leaders of the movement. They are unsuccessfully trying to justify all their unlawful murders in the name of a lie named "encounter" tracing the footsteps of the British colonial rulers. Now it is an established fact that an "encounter" anywhere in India means a conspiratorial murder by the state.
Comrade Koteswarlu was born on 26 November 1954 in Peddapalli, a town of Karimnagar district which has a legacy of the glorious Telangana armed struggle. He led the Indian revolutionary movement for nearly four decades. Comrade Koteswarlu was brought up by democratic-thinking parents and imbibed patriotic feelings and love for the oppressed people since childhood. He was a top-ranking representative of the generation after the glorious Naxalbari rebellion. Though the Naxalbari rebellion which established Maoist Protracted People's War as the path for the Indian revolution was suppressed within a few years, it had a great impact all over the country. Peasant rebellions arose in many areas following its model. It awoke the students in colleges and universities. The slogan "Naxalbari Ek Hi Rasta" (The Only Way is Naxalbari) reverberated all over the country. It was this backdrop that turned Comrade Koteswarlu into a Maoist revolutionary.
At the end of the 1970s, Comrade Koteswarlu played a crucial role in the Jagityal peasant movement and in the first decade of the 21st century he became the architect of the illustrious Lalgarh people's upsurge. He was an inspiring leader who never left the people and the cadres and who stood firmly during many an ebb and flow in the Indian revolutionary movement with courage and initiative. He was an organizer with initiative, a warrior/commander and a guide who imparted love and care. His very presence proved to be a hard nut to crack for the enemy right from the beginning. He successfully fought back several attacks and attempts to murder him. He was a tireless warrior who fought incessantly and uncompromisingly and never let go of any opportunity to attack the enemy politically and militarily.
That is why the ruling clique of this country led by Sonia-Manmohan-Chidambaram-Pranab-Jairam colluded with the Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee and killed him in the cruelest manner. The brutal signs of torture on his dead body indicate the fascist nature of the enemy, its cowardliness and its defeat. On the other hand he bore all the inhuman tortures in the hands of the enemy and emerged victorious even in the face of death. The crimson of the international red flag of the proletarians turned deeper with the blood spilled by him in Jungle Mahal.
Samstag, 3. Dezember 2011
India: CPI(Maoist) leader Kishanji murdered
28 November 2011. A World to Win News Service. Mallojula Koteswara Rao, also known as Kishenji, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), was killed in a forest area of West Bengal on 24 November.
The authorities claimed that comrade Rao was killed in a firefight during an operation involving some 900 paramilitary troops and state police, including the Cobra commandos specially trained to fight the Maoist-led revolutionary movement based in the rural areas of central and eastern India. A party statement issued the next day said that he had been been arrested, tortured and murdered.
At the funeral in his home town, Peddapally, the revolutionary writer P. Varavara Rao read out the following statement by the party's Central Committee.
November 24, 2011 would remain a black day in the annals of Indian revolutionary movement's history. The fascist Sonia-Manmohan-Pranab-Chidambaram-Jairam Ramesh ruling clique who have been raising a din that CPI (Maoist) is "the biggest internal security threat", in collusion with West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, killed Comrade Mallojula Koteswara Rao after capturing him alive in a well planned conspiracy. This clique which had killed Comrade Azad, our party's spokesperson, on July 1, 2010 once again spread its dragnet and quenched its thirst for blood. Mamata Banerjee, who had shed crocodile tears over the murder of Comrade Azad before coming to power, while enacting the drama of talks on the one hand after assuming office, killed another topmost leader Comrade Koteswara Rao and thus displayed nakedly its anti-people and fascist facet. The central intelligence agencies and the killer intelligence agencies of West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh chased him in a well planned conspiracy and killed him in a cowardly manner in a joint operation and now spreading a concocted story of encounter. The central home secretary R.K. Singh even while lying that they do not know for certain who died in the encounter, has in the same breath announced that this is a big blow to the Maoist movement. Thus he nakedly gave away their conspiracy behind this killing. The oppressed people would definitely send to grave the exploiting ruling classes and their imperialist masters who are daydreaming that they could wipe out the Maoist party by killing the top leadership of the revolutionary movement.
Comrade Koteswara Rao, who is hugely popular as Prahlad, Ramji, Kishenji and Bimal inside the party and among the people, is one of the important leaders of the Indian revolutionary movement. The tireless warrior who never rested his gun while fighting for the liberation of the oppressed masses since the past 37 years and who has laid down his life for the sake of the ideology he believed in, was born in 1954 in Peddapally town of Karimnagar district of North Telangana, Andhra Pradesh. Raised by his father the late Venkataiah, who was a freedom fighter, and his mother Madhuramma who has been of progressive views, Koteswara Rao imbibed love for his country and its oppressed masses since childhood. In 1969, he had participated in the historic separate Telangana movement while he was in his high school studies in Peddapally town. He joined the revolutionary movement with the inspiration of the glorious Naxalbari and Srikakulam movements while studying graduation in SRR college of Karimnagar. He started working as an active member of the Party from 1974. He spent some time in jail during the black period of the Emergency. After lifting up of the Emergency, he started working as a party organizer in his home district of Karimnagar. He responded to the "Go to Villages" campaign call of the party and developed relations with the peasantry by going to the villages. He was one of those who played a prominent role in the upsurge of peasant movement popular as "Jagityal Jaitrayatra" (Victory March of Jagityal) in 1978. In this course, he was elected as the district committee member of the Adilabad-Karimnagar joint committee of the CPI (ML). In 1979 when this committee was divided into two district committees he became the secretary of the Karimnagar district committee. He participated in the Andhra Pradesh state 12th party conference, was elected to the AP state committee and took responsibilities as its secretary.
Up to 1985, as part of the AP state committee leadership he played a crucial role in spreading the movement all over the state and in developing the North Telangana movement which was advancing with guerilla zone perspective. He played a prominent role in expanding the movement to Dandakaranya (DK) and developing it. He was transferred to Dandakaranya in 1986 and took up responsibilities as a member of the Forest Committee. He led the guerilla squads and the people in Gadchiroli and Bastar areas of DK. In 1993 he was co-opted as a member into the Central Organizing Committee (COC).
From 1994 onwards he mainly worked to spread and develop the revolutionary movement in Eastern and Northern parts of India including West Bengal. Particularly his role in uniting the revolutionary forces which were scattered after the setback of the Naxalbari movement in West Bengal and in reviving the revolutionary movement there is extraordinary. He mingled deeply with the oppressed masses of Bengal and the various sections of the revolutionary camp, learnt the Bangla language with determination and left an indelible mark in the hearts of the people there. He worked tirelessly in achieving unity with several revolutionary groups and in strengthening the party. Comrade Koteswara Rao was elected as a Central Committee (CC) member in the All India Special Conference of the erstwhile CPI (ML) (People's War) held in 1995. He strived for achieving unity between People's War and Party Unity in 1998. In the Party Congress of the erstwhile CPI (ML)(PW) held in 2001 he was once again elected into CC and Politburo. He took up responsibilities as the secretary of the North Regional Bureau (NRB) and led the revolutionary movements in Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Delhi, Haryana and Punjab states. Simultaneously he played a key role in the unity talks held between erstwhile PW and MCCI. He served as a member of the unified CC and Politburo formed after the merger of the two parties in 2004 and worked as a member of the Eastern Regional Bureau (ERB). He mainly concentrated on the state movement of West Bengal and continued as the spokesperson of the ERB.
Comrade Koteswara Rao played a prominent role in running party magazines and in the field of political education inside the party. He took part in running Kranti, Errajenda, Jung, Prabhat, Vanguard and other party magazines. He had a special role to play in bringing out various revolutionary magazines in West Bengal. He wrote many theoretical and political articles in these magazines. He was a member of the Sub-Committee on Political Education (SCOPE) and played a prominent role in teaching Marxism-Leninism-Maoism to the party ranks. In the entire history of the party he played a memorable role in expanding the revolutionary movement, in enriching the party documents and in developing the movement. He participated in the Unity Congress-9th Congress of the party held in 2007 January, was elected as CC member once again and took responsibilities of Politburo member and member of the ERB.
The political guidance given by Comrade Koteswara Rao to the Singur and Nandigram people's movements which erupted since 2007 against the anti-people and pro-corporate policies of the social fascist CPM government in West Bengal and particularly to the glorious upsurge of people's rebellion in Lalgarh against police atrocities is prominent. He guided the West Bengal state committee and the party ranks to lead these movements and on the other hand conducted party propaganda through the media too with initiative. In 2009 when the Chidambaram clique tried to mislead the middle classes in the name of talks and ceasefire, he worked significantly in exposing it. He did enormous work in keeping aloft the importance of People's War and in taking the revolutionary politics into the vast masses. This great revolutionary journey which went on for almost four decades came to an abrupt end on November 24, 2011.
Beloved People! Democrats!!
Do condemn this brutal murder. It is the conspiracy of the ruling classes to wipe out the revolutionary leadership and deprive the people of correct guidance and proletarian leadership. It is a known fact that the Maoist movement is the biggest hurdle to the big robbers and compradors who are stashing millions in Swiss banks by selling for peanuts the Jal, Jungle and Zameen of the country to the imperialist sharks. The multi-pronged, country-wide brutal offensive named Operation Green Hunt of the past two years is exactly serving this purpose. This cold-blooded murder is part of that. It is the duty of the patriots and freedom-loving people of the country to protect the revolutionary movement and its leadership like the pupil of their eye. It's nothing but protecting the future of the country and that of the next generations.
Even at the age of 57, Com. Koteswara Rao led the hard life of a guerilla like a young man and had filled the cadres and people with great enthusiasm wherever he went. His life would particularly serve as a great inspiration to the younger generation. He studied and worked for hours together without rest and traveled great distances. He slept very little, led a simple life and was a hard worker. He used to mingle easily with people of all ages and with people who come from various social sections and fill them with revolutionary enthusiasm. No doubt, the martyrdom of Comrade Koteswara Rao is a great loss to the Indian revolutionary movement. But the people of our country are very great. It is the people and the people's movements which gave birth to courageous and dedicated revolutionaries like Koteswara Rao. The workers and peasants and the revolutionaries who have imbibed the revolutionary spirit of Koteswara Rao right from Jagityal to Jungle Mahal and who have armed themselves with the revolutionary fragrance he spread all over the country would definitely lead the Indian New Democratic Revolution in a victory path. They would wipe out the imperialists and their lackey landlord and comprador bureaucratic bourgeoisie and their representatives like Sonia, Manmohan, Chidambaram and Mamata Banerjee.
Our CC is appealing to the people of the country to observe protest week from November 29 to December 5 and observe 48-hour "Bharat Bandh" on December 4-5 in protest of the brutal murder of Comrade Koteswara Rao. We are appealing that they take up various programmes like holding meetings, rallies, dharnas, wearing black badges, road blocks etc protesting this murder. We are requesting that trains, roadways, commercial and educational institutions be closed and that all kinds of trade transactions be stopped as part of the "Bharat Bandh" on December 4-5. However, we are exempting medical services from the Bandh.
Signed Abhay, spokesperson, CPI(Maoist).
The authorities claimed that comrade Rao was killed in a firefight during an operation involving some 900 paramilitary troops and state police, including the Cobra commandos specially trained to fight the Maoist-led revolutionary movement based in the rural areas of central and eastern India. A party statement issued the next day said that he had been been arrested, tortured and murdered.
At the funeral in his home town, Peddapally, the revolutionary writer P. Varavara Rao read out the following statement by the party's Central Committee.
November 24, 2011 would remain a black day in the annals of Indian revolutionary movement's history. The fascist Sonia-Manmohan-Pranab-Chidambaram-Jairam Ramesh ruling clique who have been raising a din that CPI (Maoist) is "the biggest internal security threat", in collusion with West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, killed Comrade Mallojula Koteswara Rao after capturing him alive in a well planned conspiracy. This clique which had killed Comrade Azad, our party's spokesperson, on July 1, 2010 once again spread its dragnet and quenched its thirst for blood. Mamata Banerjee, who had shed crocodile tears over the murder of Comrade Azad before coming to power, while enacting the drama of talks on the one hand after assuming office, killed another topmost leader Comrade Koteswara Rao and thus displayed nakedly its anti-people and fascist facet. The central intelligence agencies and the killer intelligence agencies of West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh chased him in a well planned conspiracy and killed him in a cowardly manner in a joint operation and now spreading a concocted story of encounter. The central home secretary R.K. Singh even while lying that they do not know for certain who died in the encounter, has in the same breath announced that this is a big blow to the Maoist movement. Thus he nakedly gave away their conspiracy behind this killing. The oppressed people would definitely send to grave the exploiting ruling classes and their imperialist masters who are daydreaming that they could wipe out the Maoist party by killing the top leadership of the revolutionary movement.
Comrade Koteswara Rao, who is hugely popular as Prahlad, Ramji, Kishenji and Bimal inside the party and among the people, is one of the important leaders of the Indian revolutionary movement. The tireless warrior who never rested his gun while fighting for the liberation of the oppressed masses since the past 37 years and who has laid down his life for the sake of the ideology he believed in, was born in 1954 in Peddapally town of Karimnagar district of North Telangana, Andhra Pradesh. Raised by his father the late Venkataiah, who was a freedom fighter, and his mother Madhuramma who has been of progressive views, Koteswara Rao imbibed love for his country and its oppressed masses since childhood. In 1969, he had participated in the historic separate Telangana movement while he was in his high school studies in Peddapally town. He joined the revolutionary movement with the inspiration of the glorious Naxalbari and Srikakulam movements while studying graduation in SRR college of Karimnagar. He started working as an active member of the Party from 1974. He spent some time in jail during the black period of the Emergency. After lifting up of the Emergency, he started working as a party organizer in his home district of Karimnagar. He responded to the "Go to Villages" campaign call of the party and developed relations with the peasantry by going to the villages. He was one of those who played a prominent role in the upsurge of peasant movement popular as "Jagityal Jaitrayatra" (Victory March of Jagityal) in 1978. In this course, he was elected as the district committee member of the Adilabad-Karimnagar joint committee of the CPI (ML). In 1979 when this committee was divided into two district committees he became the secretary of the Karimnagar district committee. He participated in the Andhra Pradesh state 12th party conference, was elected to the AP state committee and took responsibilities as its secretary.
Up to 1985, as part of the AP state committee leadership he played a crucial role in spreading the movement all over the state and in developing the North Telangana movement which was advancing with guerilla zone perspective. He played a prominent role in expanding the movement to Dandakaranya (DK) and developing it. He was transferred to Dandakaranya in 1986 and took up responsibilities as a member of the Forest Committee. He led the guerilla squads and the people in Gadchiroli and Bastar areas of DK. In 1993 he was co-opted as a member into the Central Organizing Committee (COC).
From 1994 onwards he mainly worked to spread and develop the revolutionary movement in Eastern and Northern parts of India including West Bengal. Particularly his role in uniting the revolutionary forces which were scattered after the setback of the Naxalbari movement in West Bengal and in reviving the revolutionary movement there is extraordinary. He mingled deeply with the oppressed masses of Bengal and the various sections of the revolutionary camp, learnt the Bangla language with determination and left an indelible mark in the hearts of the people there. He worked tirelessly in achieving unity with several revolutionary groups and in strengthening the party. Comrade Koteswara Rao was elected as a Central Committee (CC) member in the All India Special Conference of the erstwhile CPI (ML) (People's War) held in 1995. He strived for achieving unity between People's War and Party Unity in 1998. In the Party Congress of the erstwhile CPI (ML)(PW) held in 2001 he was once again elected into CC and Politburo. He took up responsibilities as the secretary of the North Regional Bureau (NRB) and led the revolutionary movements in Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Delhi, Haryana and Punjab states. Simultaneously he played a key role in the unity talks held between erstwhile PW and MCCI. He served as a member of the unified CC and Politburo formed after the merger of the two parties in 2004 and worked as a member of the Eastern Regional Bureau (ERB). He mainly concentrated on the state movement of West Bengal and continued as the spokesperson of the ERB.
Comrade Koteswara Rao played a prominent role in running party magazines and in the field of political education inside the party. He took part in running Kranti, Errajenda, Jung, Prabhat, Vanguard and other party magazines. He had a special role to play in bringing out various revolutionary magazines in West Bengal. He wrote many theoretical and political articles in these magazines. He was a member of the Sub-Committee on Political Education (SCOPE) and played a prominent role in teaching Marxism-Leninism-Maoism to the party ranks. In the entire history of the party he played a memorable role in expanding the revolutionary movement, in enriching the party documents and in developing the movement. He participated in the Unity Congress-9th Congress of the party held in 2007 January, was elected as CC member once again and took responsibilities of Politburo member and member of the ERB.
The political guidance given by Comrade Koteswara Rao to the Singur and Nandigram people's movements which erupted since 2007 against the anti-people and pro-corporate policies of the social fascist CPM government in West Bengal and particularly to the glorious upsurge of people's rebellion in Lalgarh against police atrocities is prominent. He guided the West Bengal state committee and the party ranks to lead these movements and on the other hand conducted party propaganda through the media too with initiative. In 2009 when the Chidambaram clique tried to mislead the middle classes in the name of talks and ceasefire, he worked significantly in exposing it. He did enormous work in keeping aloft the importance of People's War and in taking the revolutionary politics into the vast masses. This great revolutionary journey which went on for almost four decades came to an abrupt end on November 24, 2011.
Beloved People! Democrats!!
Do condemn this brutal murder. It is the conspiracy of the ruling classes to wipe out the revolutionary leadership and deprive the people of correct guidance and proletarian leadership. It is a known fact that the Maoist movement is the biggest hurdle to the big robbers and compradors who are stashing millions in Swiss banks by selling for peanuts the Jal, Jungle and Zameen of the country to the imperialist sharks. The multi-pronged, country-wide brutal offensive named Operation Green Hunt of the past two years is exactly serving this purpose. This cold-blooded murder is part of that. It is the duty of the patriots and freedom-loving people of the country to protect the revolutionary movement and its leadership like the pupil of their eye. It's nothing but protecting the future of the country and that of the next generations.
Even at the age of 57, Com. Koteswara Rao led the hard life of a guerilla like a young man and had filled the cadres and people with great enthusiasm wherever he went. His life would particularly serve as a great inspiration to the younger generation. He studied and worked for hours together without rest and traveled great distances. He slept very little, led a simple life and was a hard worker. He used to mingle easily with people of all ages and with people who come from various social sections and fill them with revolutionary enthusiasm. No doubt, the martyrdom of Comrade Koteswara Rao is a great loss to the Indian revolutionary movement. But the people of our country are very great. It is the people and the people's movements which gave birth to courageous and dedicated revolutionaries like Koteswara Rao. The workers and peasants and the revolutionaries who have imbibed the revolutionary spirit of Koteswara Rao right from Jagityal to Jungle Mahal and who have armed themselves with the revolutionary fragrance he spread all over the country would definitely lead the Indian New Democratic Revolution in a victory path. They would wipe out the imperialists and their lackey landlord and comprador bureaucratic bourgeoisie and their representatives like Sonia, Manmohan, Chidambaram and Mamata Banerjee.
Our CC is appealing to the people of the country to observe protest week from November 29 to December 5 and observe 48-hour "Bharat Bandh" on December 4-5 in protest of the brutal murder of Comrade Koteswara Rao. We are appealing that they take up various programmes like holding meetings, rallies, dharnas, wearing black badges, road blocks etc protesting this murder. We are requesting that trains, roadways, commercial and educational institutions be closed and that all kinds of trade transactions be stopped as part of the "Bharat Bandh" on December 4-5. However, we are exempting medical services from the Bandh.
Signed Abhay, spokesperson, CPI(Maoist).
Donnerstag, 19. Mai 2011
India: CPI(Maoist) leaders arrested
"that all arrested comrades be produced before the court immediately!"
2 May 2011. A World to Win News Service. Following is a 1 May press release by Abhay,
spokesperson for the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Maoist). There is particular urgency to the demand that all those arrested be brought before the court immediately, since many other Indian revolutionaries have been murdered after being captured, with the authorities claiming that they were killed in an armed "encounter". This is what happened in July 2010 when security forces caught and killed the CPI(Maoist) leader Comrade Azad (Cherukuri Rajkumar) and the journalist Hemchandra Pandey in Andhra Pradesh as part of the central government's Operation Green Hunt, a military offensive against the jungle areas where the Maoist-led revolution is strong among the tribal peoples.
The central intelligence agencies and the notorious APSIB goons arrested our three CC comrades –V. Subramanyam, Vijay Kumar Arya and Punendu Shekhar Mukherjee – along with some other comrades and sympathizers, in Katihar district of Bihar on precise information. In fact, comrade Subramanyam has been under surveillance by APSIB since so many months. They had even planned to assassinate him. But because of exposure of their conspiracy before the people, they couldn't kill him. The licensed killers of APSIB and other Indian intelligence wings trained by the CIA and Mossad have been targeting the leaders of the Indian Revolution as part of their "War on the People" for a long time. Beloved leaders of the Indian people like Azad, Patel Sudhakar, Shakhamuri Apparao, Prasad and BK were murdered by these killers by the orders of Sonia-Manmohan-Chidambaram ruling clique [the head of the ruling Congress party, Prime Minister and Home Minister respectively], hand in glove with their imperialist masters. Some other leaders and activists were arrested and put in dungeons of various jails.
The Indian ruling classes on the one hand have been selling out the nation to the multinational corporations and big business, signing hundreds of MoUs [agreements] with them, on the other hand they have been trying to crush the revolutionary movement so as to make sure that no resistance is put up against their anti-people and pro-imperialist policies. As our party is in the forefront of mass struggles against this corrupt, oppressive and exploitative system, the Indian ruling classes are using every repressive tool at their disposal so as to leave the Indian masses leaderless.
CC, CPI(Maoist) condemns the illegal arrests and mental and physical torture subjected to these comrades. We call upon the workers, peasants, students, intellectuals and all oppressed sections of our country to condemn the unjust war of the ruling classes against people and come forward to advance the Indian New Democratic Revolution wiping out feudalism, the comprador/bureaucrat bourgeoisie and imperialism.
2 May 2011. A World to Win News Service. Following is a 1 May press release by Abhay,
spokesperson for the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Maoist). There is particular urgency to the demand that all those arrested be brought before the court immediately, since many other Indian revolutionaries have been murdered after being captured, with the authorities claiming that they were killed in an armed "encounter". This is what happened in July 2010 when security forces caught and killed the CPI(Maoist) leader Comrade Azad (Cherukuri Rajkumar) and the journalist Hemchandra Pandey in Andhra Pradesh as part of the central government's Operation Green Hunt, a military offensive against the jungle areas where the Maoist-led revolution is strong among the tribal peoples.
The central intelligence agencies and the notorious APSIB goons arrested our three CC comrades –V. Subramanyam, Vijay Kumar Arya and Punendu Shekhar Mukherjee – along with some other comrades and sympathizers, in Katihar district of Bihar on precise information. In fact, comrade Subramanyam has been under surveillance by APSIB since so many months. They had even planned to assassinate him. But because of exposure of their conspiracy before the people, they couldn't kill him. The licensed killers of APSIB and other Indian intelligence wings trained by the CIA and Mossad have been targeting the leaders of the Indian Revolution as part of their "War on the People" for a long time. Beloved leaders of the Indian people like Azad, Patel Sudhakar, Shakhamuri Apparao, Prasad and BK were murdered by these killers by the orders of Sonia-Manmohan-Chidambaram ruling clique [the head of the ruling Congress party, Prime Minister and Home Minister respectively], hand in glove with their imperialist masters. Some other leaders and activists were arrested and put in dungeons of various jails.
The Indian ruling classes on the one hand have been selling out the nation to the multinational corporations and big business, signing hundreds of MoUs [agreements] with them, on the other hand they have been trying to crush the revolutionary movement so as to make sure that no resistance is put up against their anti-people and pro-imperialist policies. As our party is in the forefront of mass struggles against this corrupt, oppressive and exploitative system, the Indian ruling classes are using every repressive tool at their disposal so as to leave the Indian masses leaderless.
CC, CPI(Maoist) condemns the illegal arrests and mental and physical torture subjected to these comrades. We call upon the workers, peasants, students, intellectuals and all oppressed sections of our country to condemn the unjust war of the ruling classes against people and come forward to advance the Indian New Democratic Revolution wiping out feudalism, the comprador/bureaucrat bourgeoisie and imperialism.
Donnerstag, 15. Juli 2010
India: Leading comrade Azad murdered - CPI (Maoist) statement
12 July 2010. A World to Win News Service. It was with great sorrow and anger that we learned that the authorities in India captured and cold-bloodedly murdered Comrade Azad (Cherukuri Rajkumar), a leading member of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) known throughout the world for his work as the party's spokesperson, and party comrade Hemchandra Pandey. Following is a slightly edited statement by the CPI (Maoist Central Committee released by the party's North Regional Bureau Press 3 July 2010.
On July 1st, the Andhra Pradesh Special Intelligence Bureau police, a unit notorious for its abductions and cold-blooded murders, arrested comrade Azad (Cherukuri Rajkumar), CPI (Maoist) Political Bureau member and spokesperson, and comrade Hem Pandey (Jitender), a zonal committee-level comrade, in Nagpur city around 11 o'clock when they went to meet a comrade from Dandakarnaya zone who was supposed to receive them. Comrade Azad reached Nagpur around 10 am on the fateful day along with comrade Hem Pandey, after travelling a long distance. Acting with specific information, the lawless goons of the AP SIB abducted them, and took them, perhaps by helicopter, to the Adilabad jungle near the Maharashtra border and killed them, shooting them point blank and in cold blood.
We pay our red homage to our beloved comrades…
The life of comrade Azad
Comrade Azad was one of the senior-most party leaders of CPI (Maoist). He was born in Krishna district of AP, in a well-to-do family. He did his school education in Sainik School, at Korukonda of the present Vizianagaram District. Comrade Surapuneni Janardhan, a legendary comrade of the student movement, brought comrade Rajkumar into the Radical Students Union in 1974.
A brilliant student at the Regional Engineering College, which became famous as the Radical Engineering College in those days, he finished his degree in chemical engineering and moved to Vishakhapatnam as per the Party's direction. He was the second president of the AP RSU until 1984. He was the catalyst behind many Andhra-wide student agitations and people's movements in that period. He became a district committee member of the CPI (ML) (People's War).
He moved through the length and breadth of India to organize the Seminar on the Nationality Question held in Madras (now Chennai) in 1981. He was shifted to Karnataka in 1982, where comrade Azad was one of the founder members of the party there and worked as the secretary of the State Committee. He became a member of the Central Committee of the CPI (ML) (People's War) after the Central Plenum in 1990 and its Political Bureau at the All-India Conference in 1995. He continued in those posts after the formation of the CPI (Maoist) in 2004. He has been the spokesperson of the CC since then.
Known for his simple life and hard work, voracious reading and brilliant analyses of situations, crystal clear articulation and sharp logic, and fine organizational skills, he contributed widely to the revolutionary movement in many spheres.
He wrote profusely for People’s March, People's War (the party theoretical organ) and the Maoist Information Bulletin. He wrote a fine critique of the intellectuals of AP who got disillusioned and lost faith in the revolutionary movement after the collapse of Soviet imperialism and its satellite regimes.
With his death, the Indian revolutionary movement lost an exemplary comrade and a shining star, who served the movement more than three and half decades…
Comrade Hem Pandey, 30, hailed from the nearby village of Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand State. He did his MA in history at Nainital University and got himself registered in PhD studies. While he was in college, he was active member of AISA. Slowly realizing the pseudo-revolutionar y character of AISA politics, he moved to the radical groups. Later, in 2001, he joined the then-CPI (ML) (PW). He organized peasants in the mountainous villages in Almora district, taking up umpteen numbers of issues of the peasantry.
Soft-spoken, bespectacled, lean and energetic, comrade Hem won the love of the people of that region. He was moved into more important work in 2005. He did his new assignments with patience and endurance. His appetite for learning new things, reading more and more, and zeal for penning his ideas, are to be emulated by all revolutionaries. He wrote articles for news magazines under various pen names. We request the civil rights organisations to demand that the AP police send the body of comrade Hem Pandey to his bereaved mother in Haldwani, Uttarakhand state, who is his sole surviving parent.
AP SIB - the Indian avatar of Mossad
The Andhra Pradesh Special Intelligence Bureau has been partly trained by the Mossad [Israeli intelligence]… It has been moving across state borders, and conducting abductions and cold-blooded murders with impunity. This is all happening with clear blessings of Manmohan [Prime Minister Manmohan Singh], Sonia [Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi] and [Home Minister] Chidambaram. This fascist gang has established its tentacles all over India, resorting to the killings of revolutionaries, scoffing at the recent AP high court judgement that all encounters [where the authorities kill captured or kidnapped revolutionaries and then falsely report that they died in an "encounter" – a gun battle] are to be first booked as murders... [and brought before a judge for an investigation into possible culpable homicide].
Will Chidambaram expect the CPI (Maoist) to sit for talks with the blood of comrades Azad and Hem Pandey on his hands?
CPI (Maoist) never contested or raised any hue and cry in the case of real encounters. The AP police are resorting to Goebbels-like lies, not believed even by the gullible. CPI (Maoist) stood for truth and accountability to the people, and always stated facts. Azad was not going to Sarkepally forest in Adilabad. When there is no movement and organization in Adilabad, why would he go there? Azad was going to discuss with our comrades, inter alia, the concrete proposals of well-meaning people like Swami Agnivesh [a figure who has been trying to arrange talks between the CPI(M) and the central government] about particular dates for a mutual ceasefire. He was carrying a confidential letter written to him from Swami Agnivesh dated 26 June 2010. Will Chidambaram expect CPI (Maoist) to sit for talks with the blood of comrades Azad and Hem Pandey on his hands? He repeatedly calls on us to abjure violence. Killing unarmed comrades by the AP police with your blessings – is this not like devils chanting scriptures?
AP police lies
That the police found an AK47 is again a lie. Comrade Azad alighted from a train around 10 am along with comrade Hem Pandey in Nagpur Station, and was caught by the AP SIB unarmed. Is the government following article 21 of its own constitution? Is the government following the kernel of the Geneva Convention, that “defenceless persons” should not be harmed? Is it not utter hypocrisy and a hoax that while the government is presenting the prevention of torture bill, the police are every minute resorting to the torture of the detained? These concocted encounter stories have been repeated ad nauseum by the AP police, churned out to the media umpteen times. The right to life, guaranteed under the constitution, is mocked, and the right to be brought before a judge within 24 hours of arrest has metamorphosed into being killed within 24 hours of arrest, so that there is no scope for any redress by their near and dear.
We appeal to the civil rights organizations, democrats and patriots to rise to the occasion and thoroughly investigate this fake encounter as an example of the extra-judicial killing that are happening in scores in this country and bring out the truth before the people.
- Ajay, spokesperson, CPI (Maoist)
On July 1st, the Andhra Pradesh Special Intelligence Bureau police, a unit notorious for its abductions and cold-blooded murders, arrested comrade Azad (Cherukuri Rajkumar), CPI (Maoist) Political Bureau member and spokesperson, and comrade Hem Pandey (Jitender), a zonal committee-level comrade, in Nagpur city around 11 o'clock when they went to meet a comrade from Dandakarnaya zone who was supposed to receive them. Comrade Azad reached Nagpur around 10 am on the fateful day along with comrade Hem Pandey, after travelling a long distance. Acting with specific information, the lawless goons of the AP SIB abducted them, and took them, perhaps by helicopter, to the Adilabad jungle near the Maharashtra border and killed them, shooting them point blank and in cold blood.
We pay our red homage to our beloved comrades…
The life of comrade Azad
Comrade Azad was one of the senior-most party leaders of CPI (Maoist). He was born in Krishna district of AP, in a well-to-do family. He did his school education in Sainik School, at Korukonda of the present Vizianagaram District. Comrade Surapuneni Janardhan, a legendary comrade of the student movement, brought comrade Rajkumar into the Radical Students Union in 1974.
A brilliant student at the Regional Engineering College, which became famous as the Radical Engineering College in those days, he finished his degree in chemical engineering and moved to Vishakhapatnam as per the Party's direction. He was the second president of the AP RSU until 1984. He was the catalyst behind many Andhra-wide student agitations and people's movements in that period. He became a district committee member of the CPI (ML) (People's War).
He moved through the length and breadth of India to organize the Seminar on the Nationality Question held in Madras (now Chennai) in 1981. He was shifted to Karnataka in 1982, where comrade Azad was one of the founder members of the party there and worked as the secretary of the State Committee. He became a member of the Central Committee of the CPI (ML) (People's War) after the Central Plenum in 1990 and its Political Bureau at the All-India Conference in 1995. He continued in those posts after the formation of the CPI (Maoist) in 2004. He has been the spokesperson of the CC since then.
Known for his simple life and hard work, voracious reading and brilliant analyses of situations, crystal clear articulation and sharp logic, and fine organizational skills, he contributed widely to the revolutionary movement in many spheres.
He wrote profusely for People’s March, People's War (the party theoretical organ) and the Maoist Information Bulletin. He wrote a fine critique of the intellectuals of AP who got disillusioned and lost faith in the revolutionary movement after the collapse of Soviet imperialism and its satellite regimes.
With his death, the Indian revolutionary movement lost an exemplary comrade and a shining star, who served the movement more than three and half decades…
Comrade Hem Pandey, 30, hailed from the nearby village of Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand State. He did his MA in history at Nainital University and got himself registered in PhD studies. While he was in college, he was active member of AISA. Slowly realizing the pseudo-revolutionar y character of AISA politics, he moved to the radical groups. Later, in 2001, he joined the then-CPI (ML) (PW). He organized peasants in the mountainous villages in Almora district, taking up umpteen numbers of issues of the peasantry.
Soft-spoken, bespectacled, lean and energetic, comrade Hem won the love of the people of that region. He was moved into more important work in 2005. He did his new assignments with patience and endurance. His appetite for learning new things, reading more and more, and zeal for penning his ideas, are to be emulated by all revolutionaries. He wrote articles for news magazines under various pen names. We request the civil rights organisations to demand that the AP police send the body of comrade Hem Pandey to his bereaved mother in Haldwani, Uttarakhand state, who is his sole surviving parent.
AP SIB - the Indian avatar of Mossad
The Andhra Pradesh Special Intelligence Bureau has been partly trained by the Mossad [Israeli intelligence]… It has been moving across state borders, and conducting abductions and cold-blooded murders with impunity. This is all happening with clear blessings of Manmohan [Prime Minister Manmohan Singh], Sonia [Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi] and [Home Minister] Chidambaram. This fascist gang has established its tentacles all over India, resorting to the killings of revolutionaries, scoffing at the recent AP high court judgement that all encounters [where the authorities kill captured or kidnapped revolutionaries and then falsely report that they died in an "encounter" – a gun battle] are to be first booked as murders... [and brought before a judge for an investigation into possible culpable homicide].
Will Chidambaram expect the CPI (Maoist) to sit for talks with the blood of comrades Azad and Hem Pandey on his hands?
CPI (Maoist) never contested or raised any hue and cry in the case of real encounters. The AP police are resorting to Goebbels-like lies, not believed even by the gullible. CPI (Maoist) stood for truth and accountability to the people, and always stated facts. Azad was not going to Sarkepally forest in Adilabad. When there is no movement and organization in Adilabad, why would he go there? Azad was going to discuss with our comrades, inter alia, the concrete proposals of well-meaning people like Swami Agnivesh [a figure who has been trying to arrange talks between the CPI(M) and the central government] about particular dates for a mutual ceasefire. He was carrying a confidential letter written to him from Swami Agnivesh dated 26 June 2010. Will Chidambaram expect CPI (Maoist) to sit for talks with the blood of comrades Azad and Hem Pandey on his hands? He repeatedly calls on us to abjure violence. Killing unarmed comrades by the AP police with your blessings – is this not like devils chanting scriptures?
AP police lies
That the police found an AK47 is again a lie. Comrade Azad alighted from a train around 10 am along with comrade Hem Pandey in Nagpur Station, and was caught by the AP SIB unarmed. Is the government following article 21 of its own constitution? Is the government following the kernel of the Geneva Convention, that “defenceless persons” should not be harmed? Is it not utter hypocrisy and a hoax that while the government is presenting the prevention of torture bill, the police are every minute resorting to the torture of the detained? These concocted encounter stories have been repeated ad nauseum by the AP police, churned out to the media umpteen times. The right to life, guaranteed under the constitution, is mocked, and the right to be brought before a judge within 24 hours of arrest has metamorphosed into being killed within 24 hours of arrest, so that there is no scope for any redress by their near and dear.
We appeal to the civil rights organizations, democrats and patriots to rise to the occasion and thoroughly investigate this fake encounter as an example of the extra-judicial killing that are happening in scores in this country and bring out the truth before the people.
- Ajay, spokesperson, CPI (Maoist)
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