CONDEMN THE MURDER OF COM.KENDRUKA ARJUN.Statement by Com.Santhosh Rana, General Secretary, PCC CPI(ML)

We came to know from Com.Viswam, general Secretary of CPI (ML) that Com. Kendruka Arjun, the Leader of Adivasi People’s movement in Orissa was killed on 9^th August, 2010. The PCC CPI (ML) severely condemns this murder.

It has been alleged that a Maoist squad killed com.Arjun. We have not yet heard anything from CPI (Maoist) about this incident. We demand they should come out with a statement about the allegation.

It has been our own experience in Lalgarh that the Maoists want to establish their own hegemony in any area by forcibly eliminating al other political forces. They are not ready to allow people to participate in any political action which is different from them. Recently they have attacked our party members and sympathizers in Jhargram area and ordered them to severe connection with CPI (ML) and join the Trinamul Congress. In the rural areas, the Trinamul Congress is a party inherited from the Congress and is led by ex-landlords, usurers and bad gentry. In some areas they are using the Maoist to eliminate genuine Left forces and establish the rule of the reactionaries.

The PCC CPI (ML) West Bengal has consistently opposed Operation Green Hunt and the operation of the Joint Forces in Jangalmahal.It has consistently opposed imperialist globalization and the corporate attack on land, water and resources of our country. It has always joined hands with other left, democratic and patriotic forces to fight the Manmohan-Aluwalia-Chidammbaram agenda of handing over the country to imperialist hucksters. It has consistently fought against the Left Front government in WB whenever it tried to impose that agenda on WB.

The activities of the Maoists are disrupting the unity of the democratic and revolutionary forces in the country. The PCC CPI (ML) calls upon all genuine democratic forces to criticize the disruptive activities of the Maoists and help build a broad movement against imperialist globalization and state terror.

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Kashmir in Turmoil:

NOTHING LESS THAN NATIONAL SELF DETERMINATION CAN SOLVE THE PROBLEM

Once again Kashmir is in turmoil. Young boys-even

of 8 years old-are dieing like birds on the streets hit by

the police bullets. The streets in Srinagar, Kupwara,

Baramulla, Pulwama, Anantnag and several other towns

were reddened by and drenched in the blood of

protesting people.

The present wave of protests in Kashmir began in

April 2010 when the people of Shaopian village saw the

dead bodies of two women of their own villages floating

in a river. The people were deeply pained and intensively

angered when they learnt that the men of armed police

had committed brutalities, killed and threw bodies of

said women in the river. The attempts by the authorities

to shield the culprits and crush the just protest had

stoked the flames of protest further. The cycle of

innocent boys being killed by the men of armed police;

the people coming into protests against it and the

armed police again killing more boys forcing the greater

number of people to take to the streets…..continued in

Kashmir with no end.

The protests which had begun to demand justice in

certain specific acts of crime by the armed police had

eventually developed into a powerful and Kashmir-wide

popular movement to demand the withdrawal of CRPF

and other para-military forces together with the Armed

Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from Kashmir. The

present protest movement has brought the national and

democratic aspirations of Kashmir people, once again,

to the fore as expressed in the demand for azadi.

The present protest movement in Kashmir has

revealed certain signifant and welcome features:

Firstly, it has brought all sections and ages of people

into action, with the youth playing a pivotal role in it.

Secondly, the protest has assumed the character of a

political movement. With people taking part in

unrelenting and Kashmir-wide protest actions defying

the curfews, imprisonment and bullets and waging

pitched battles with stones as a form of self defence

from the armed police. Thousands of people threw

themselves into the protest actions and the protest

movement has acquired the nature of a popular upsurge.

Thirdly, earlier it had been an usual habit of the armed

police and the Government. to pick up the youth from

their homes or isolated places and hush up their killings

or justify the same as deaths of a ‘suspected terrorists’

in an encounter. But now as the people have moved in

thousands into militant protest actions and are reacting

against every crime and atrocity in any corners of the

state it is becoming extremely difficult for the armed

police to act in the old fashion. Fourthly, the Indian

rulers as well as their counter-parts in Kashmir wait

not even for a second to reject the demand of Kashmir

people for national self determination as anti-national

and pro-Pakistan etc. But they are finding it difficult to

dismiss the present protest which raised the slogan of

AZADI so because of its mass character and the

participation of the people in it in several thousands.

The present movement is compared by many with the

“Tehreck”- a mass upsurge that swept Kashmir in 1990s

with the demand for independence. Some see the

possibility of this movement assuming the nature of

Palestine people’s intifada if it was sought be crushed

by force. Of course, the rulers complain that the

‘separatists’ are attempting to use the present

movement to push through their slogans.

The Way Rulers are handling it

The Indian Government used heavy hand to suppress

the protest movement. It rejected the long-standing

demands of Kashmir people to withdraw the central

para-military forces and AFSPA from Kashmir. It justified

the killing of several dozen’s of youth, and the arrest of

hundreds of protesters by the armed police. It had turned

almost the entire Kashmir into a territory virtually

occupied and ruled by the armed police. The never

ending curfews, the sounds of marching armed police,

gun shots, threats of police raids and interventions in

private lives had seriously disturbed the peace and

normal life of the people for days together. The Prime

Minister and the Union Home Minister had received the

so called Track No.2 efforts and dialogue process. But

this process has only revealed its lack of honesty of

purpose and, therefore, its futility. This has become an

exercise to buy over the sections of political

organizations and isolate the sections who seem to be

firm in their support for the demands like national selfdetermination

rather than striving to understand the

genuine aspirations and finding proper solutions. These

methods are only further alienating the Indian rulers

from the Kashmir people.

The present Omar Abdulla led Government in

Kashmir stands as a most discredited one. Omar

Abdulla’s National Conference is divided while the

Congress is waiting in its wings to grab power. In its

mad chase for power NC leadership had gone a long

way in its shameful degeneration, surrender and betrayal

to the cause of Kashmir people championed by Sheikh

Abdulla in his early political life. The people of Kashmir

see the Omar Abdulla’s Govt. as nothing but a tool of

Indian rulers to impose the anti-people and repressive

policies on them. In the context of the present

movement it got itself further alienated from the people

because of its all out support to the policy and moves

of the central govt. to suppress the Kashmir people.

On one side, it had indulged in such provocative talk

as “the cycle of violence must end, otherwise the

consequences will be tragic and serious” and on the

other side, it had set various teams into motion and

sought to convene the all Party meet to mobilize the

support to its moves to put an end to the protest

movement. Here is an instance of the methods it used

to bribe the political forces. The Kashmir Govt. has

arrested a Veteran Kashmir leader, Syed Ali Shah

Geelani, Tehreek-i-Hurriyat on June 20, 2010 on the

charge of fomenting trouble in Kashmir. State officials

had later approached him in jail with an offer to release

him on one month’s parole. But he demanded the

release of hundreds of youth who were put in jail on

various false charges. Later, the authorities informed

him that he was a free person now. On Aug 3, 2010,

Geelani revealed to the Press: “CM Osama Abdulla’s

Political Advisor Dharidra Rana met me while I was

lodged in Chanchamashahi sub jail saying a political

space could be created for me provided I lend a hand

to the Govt. He appeared to be under the notion that I

was interested in power politics which I am not. I told

him that the people of Kashmir want an end to Indian

occupation and no force, how so strong it may be, can

stop their achieving their goal.”

Ever since the present wave of protest movement

began, the Central Govt. held the Cabinet Committee

on Security (CCS) meetings and has co-ordinated its

moves with the Kashmir Govt. while using the heavy

dose of force to suppress the moves it also talked about

the dialogue process, political packages to woe the

political forces in Kashmir to its side and made

exercises such as consultations and all party meeting

to involve and take the help of other ruling class (BJP,

etc) and parliamentary parties in putting an end to the

protest movement in Kashmir.

Different Evaluations and Solutions

Certain types of ‘criticisms’ and advice to the Indian

Govt. has come in this context. Some see it as a result

of ‘Political naivete’ and indifference, etc on the part of

Kashmir Govt. together with the Indian Govt’s

complacency, indecision and break in the dialogue

process. Some say the youth had taken to the road of

protest because they are frustrated with the problems

of unemployment and lack of opportunities and the

separatist and anti-Indian slogans. Some say that the

protest is an expression of anger against an extremely

corrupt and unpopular Omar Abdulla Govt. Some like

the PDP in Kashmir say that the reliance on force

excessively rather than on the dialogue process has

worsened the situation. Some suggested that it is not

too late for the main stream parties to reach out to the

moderate elements like Mirwazi Moulvi, Farooqui and

Yasin Malik co opting them in the project of bringing

peace. Now it is time to work on a frame work for

autonomy for the state. Some suggested to include

Kashmir as an issue in the composite dialogue with

Pakistan. Vikram sood, a former head of the RAW

suggested, “We must engage Kashmir’s elected

representatives in a continuous dialogue….. Make

people like Ali Shah Geelani irrelevant refuse to give

importance to those like Mirwaiz Omar

Farooq……Unless these elements are put to pasture,

they will keep reinventing themselves under the

guidance from Pakistan.”

All these criticisms or advice sound pleasant to the

ears of the Indian ruling classes. Because, they are

aimed at helping the Indian Govt. in tackling the Kashmir

problem in the way it had been dealing with it in the

last more than six decades. But, the hard reality is,

they are evading to face the real cause of turmoil in

Kashmir.

Where lies the root of the problem

History tells that Kashmir (together with the part

ruled by the Pakistan) was an independent princely

state when the British colonial rule ended. The king

Hari Singh wanted to remain independent. But he was

faced with two serious problems. One: A powerful antifeudal

and democratic movement was sweeping in

Kashmir pushing the Raj on to the brink of collape.

This was a life and death problem for him. Second: The

newly emerged Indian and Pakistani regimes who

engaged in the attempts to integrate Kashmir in their

countries. Both the regimes saw the possible

emergences of a democratic and independent Kashmir

as a serious threat to the social system they inherited

to protect. While the Pakistan rulers sought to use the

troubles in the tribal areas of Kashmir to realize their

aim, the Indian rulers made use of the tottering state of

kingdom and troubles in the tribal areas to force the

king to sign the instrument of Accession, and militarily

intervene in Kashmir. The Kashmir people had no role

in this development. They also had no role in the politics

of control and division played by the rulers of both

countries and for the unending tensions and hostilities

between the people.

The people of Kashmir, however, continued to love

their own distinct culture, language and way of life. The

disputes between India and Pakistan – a product of

colonial rule-and the hostilities, tensions and wars

nurtured and continued by the imperialist, the US

imperialists in particular caused much strain to the life

and struggle of Kashmir people in defence of national

and democratic rights. Sheik Abdulla stood in the fore

front of this struggle for over a period of time.

The Indian ruling classes were never in agreement

with the idea of a Kashmir outside the Indian Union. At

the same time they found it difficult to reject the people’s

national and democratic aspirations altogether. As a

result an agreement was signed by the Indian Govt.

and Sheik Abdulla. It was given the shape of Article

370 of the Indian constitution.

In brief, this article 370 embodied six special

provisions for Jammu-Kashmir, namely (1) it exempted

Kashmir from the provisions of Constitution of India

which provide for the governance of the states. It allows

Jammu-Kashmir to have its own Constitution within the

Indian Union, (II) It restricted the Parliament’s Legislative

power over Kashmir to defence, External Affairs and

Communications, (III) Prior concurrence of the State

Government was required if the other provisions of Indian

Constitution or Union powers were to be extended to

Kashmir, (IV) The concurrence had to be ratified by the

State’s Constitutent Assembly, (V) The State Govt’s

concurrence lasts only until the States Constituent

Assembly was convened, once the Constituent

Assembly was dispersed, the President’s extending

powers end completely, (VI) It empowers the President

to make an order abrogating or amending the Article

379. But even for this the State’s Constituent

Assembly’s recommendation was necessary. The

Article 370 cannot be abrogated or amended by

recourse to amending the Indian Constitution.

It must be noted that the Indian Ruling classes had

to agree to accord this special status to Jammu and

Kashmir because the people’s aspirations for an

independent and democratic Kashmit were so powerful

and irresistable at the time and no other move could

have confinced them to arrive at an agreement with the

Indian rulers. It must be noted that, at that time, Sheikh

Abdulla carried immence respect and confidence among

the people of Kashmir and this had contibuted a lot in

rallying the people with it.

But the people of Kashmir had only gone through a

tortuous, frustrating and betraying experience in the

subsequest years.

While the BJP (at one time Jana Sangh) and some

other parties and organizations had been and still are

tirelessly opposing the speical status to Jammu and

Kashmir and campaigning for the abrogation of Article

370, the Congress Govts from Nehru onwards had all

along been doing everything to water down in practice

and make ineffective this Article without, ofcourse,

removing the Article 370 from the pages of the

Constitution of India. For this, they used the methods

of pressure, manipulation, back doors, slander and the

repression. In the course of this, Sheikh Abdulla had

suffered imprisonment for more than a decade for his

‘crime’ of making weak attempts to retain the main

content of Article 370. Yet, he went on giving up one

position after the other extremely weakening the

autonomous status of Kashmir. The National

Conference led by him which had enjoyed highest

respect and confidence at one time had in the course

of time and towards the end of Sheikh Abdulla’s life

saw a serious erosion of credibility and support among

the people of Kashmir because of its surrendering the

rights of Kashmir people in its quest for power. The

subsequent leaderships of the National Conference only

went down further on the road of degeneration.

The Indian Government and the parties of ruling

classes saw to it that they weild the real power in

Kashmir. They rigged and manipulated elections, floated

coalitions and imposed the Governor’s rule for this

purpose.

The Indian rulers never tried to understand the

genuine feelings and aspirations of Kashmir people.

They viewed the demands for the withdrawal of Central

armed police, AFSPA, the punishment to those who

committed various types of crimes against the people

and the demands of independence and the preservation

of special status as provided originally in the Article

370 with suspicion and rejected. They saw the influence

and hand of anti-Indian, Islamist, terrorist elements and

Pakistan agents behind these slogans and sought to

suppress with iron hand. They sought to sow divisions

among the people in an attempt to malign, divide and

isolate the people and political forces who were

ventilating the democratic and national aspirations.

They took every care to keep out the political forces

that they identified as the champions of national and

democratic rights from the electoral process and the

corridors of power. The Govts that had ruled Kashmir

so far with the blessings of Central Government had

only set the worst examples of corrupt, anti-people and

repressive rule. All this had only further alienated the

Indian ruling classes and the Indian Govt. from Kashmir

people. More significantly the systematic and

conspiratorial moves on the part of the Indian

Government to water down and make ineffective whatever

the autonomous status the Article 370 has originally

assured, the endless attempts to reduce Kashmir just

into a tool of Central rule and endless attacks on the

rights and lives had only strengthened the feelings of

humiliation, alienation and betrayal among the Kashmir

people. The present trend of thinking and moves on the

part of Indian Govt., the Indian ruling classes and the

Kashmir would only further alienate them from Kashmir

people.

In this situation, the solution to Kashmir question

cannot even be imagined if the Indian rulers evade the

following demands that are raised by the Kashmir

people in various and on various occasions:

1. Stop all repression and repressive moves in

Kashmir.

2. Withdraw the CRPF and other Central paramilitary

forces and repel AFSP Act.

3. Release all those who were arrested under various

false charges in the context of present protest movement.

4. Punish those who are

responsible for the killing of

Kashmir people on various

occasions.

5. Shun the methods of

maligning, buying and dividing

the Kashmir people and the

political forces.

6. Ensure peaceful and

democratic atmosphere and

conditions where the Kashmir

people can express their

views and feelings freely on

the future status of Kashmir.

Solution to Kashmir question

must be found by accepting

and honouring the Kashmir

people’s right of national selfdetermination

in deciding the

future of Kashmir.

CONDEMN THE MURDER OF COM.KENDRUKA ARJUN BY MAOISTS

CONDEMN THE MURDER OF COM. KENDRUKA ARJUN

THE LEADER OF ADIVASI MOVEMENT IN ANDHRA ORISSA BORDER AREA AND THE SECRETARY, CHASI MULIYA ADIVASI SANGH, KORAPUT DISTRICT BY THE MAOISTS!

Friends,

            The murder squad of the CPI (Maoist) Party has shot dead in a ghastly manner Com. Kendruka Arjun (42 Years), the leader of Adivasi peoples movement in Koraput – Bandugaon area in Andhra – Orissa border, Koraput District Secretary of Chasi Muliya Adivasi Sangh (CMAS) and a comrade who had come up from a poorest Adivasi family as a leader of oppressed peoples movement and had been working among the people.

            On August, 9, 2010 in the afternoon, the Maoists have waylaid Com.Arjun on his way to Kathulapeta from Keshubhadra when he was going to the hospital by bicycle together with his wife.  The Maoists used force and asked him to come aside for a talk.  Com. Arjun understood that they were Maoists.  He told them fearlessly that he has nothing to talk to them there and the things can be discussed, if there are any, right in the presence of people.  With this, the Maoists have hit Com. Arjun on his legs to which he fell down.  They pushed Com. Arjun’s wife aside when she attempted to rescue him from the attack of Maoists and the three Maoists have shot Com. Arjun dead in a ghastly manner.

WAS IT A CRIME FOR COM. ARJUN   TO WORK AS AN ACTIVIST OF PEOPLE’S MOVEMENT?

            For the last 15 years, Com. Arjun had been working integrating himself with the Adivasi people under the leadership of CMAS.  He was a comrade who stood in the forefront in the efforts to organize the Adivasi and non-Adivasi poor in the Bandugaon area of Koraput district and in mobilizing them against the liquor traders, the atrocities of forest officials and the exploitation of pettandars.

            Com. Arjun played a militant role in the people’s movement against the liquor producing owners, sundis and shahukars in Koraput area together with the Bankini, Neelavadi and other villages.

            It was Com. Arjun who extended the CMAS and the Adivasi peoples movement from Koraput area to Narayanapatna up to 2006.  In 2006 June, the police had created an atmosphere of terror by arresting the leadership and imposing the sec 144 in Narayanapatna – Podipodar area in an attempt to prevent the occupation of lands under the leadership of CMAS.  The Adivasi people had seized their own crops even in the midst of this repressive atmosphere under the leadership of Sangh led by Com. Arjun.

            On Nov 17, 2008, 400 Adivasi armed with traditional weapons had gheraoed the Bandugaon police outpost under the leadership of Com. Arjun in protest against the police attack on the Adivasi in Sorupalli market and with a view to get their Adivasi brothers released who were in police custody.  They expressed their serious anger against the repeated harassments and atrocities carried on by the police.  Cases were foisted against the activists of the Sangh including Com. Arjun on the alleged charge of attack on the police outpost.  But Com. Arjun was not frightened by it.  He carried on the activities of Sangh by remaining himself among the people for 5 months as required by the needs of the movement.

            As the leader of the CMAS, Com. Arjun played an active role in the movement to re-occupy the lands of Adivasi beginning with July, 2009, which were illegally grabbed by the STM Company and also in the struggle to seize the lands under the occupation of the non-Adivasi pettandars.

            Com. Arjun had grown into a leader from the oppressed Adivasi people in the course of facing the attacks from the pettandars, goondas and illegal arrests and repression from the police.  All along, he had been performing the responsibilities as the District Committee Secretary and the state committee member of the CMAS.

            Com. Arjun had contested in the General Elections held in 2009 as a candidate for Lakshmipur Assembly constituency and had extensively propagated the politics of people’s movement in Koraput and Narayanapatna area.

            The landlords, pettandars sundis, shahukars and the owners of various companies who were freely enjoying the lands of the Adivasi could not tolerate the Adivasi people’s movement taking roots and expanding under the leadership of Chasi Muliya Adivasi Sangh.  They are furious at the Sangh and are resorting to attacks and atrocities against it.  On the other side, the state and the police machinery are resorting to foisting of cases, arrests and harassments in various forms.

            On the other side the Maoists too are unable to tolerate the concrete and consistent efforts by the leadership of CMAS to develop the people’s movement in Koraput area.  On various occasions, they indulged in such acts as threatening through posters and statements to kill the leaders and cadres of the Sang if they do not abandon the politics of mass movement.

            The Sangh had been condemning this kind of undemocratic and atrocious acts of the Maoists whenever they had resorted to such acts.  It had been taking these things to the notice of the intellectuals and democrats and appealing to them to prevent the undesirable acts which would inflame the clashes between the people’s movements. However, brushing aside these appeals and much to the merriment of the landlords and pettandars, the Maoists had committed this act of murder. 

Com. Arjun belongs to the poorest Jathapu tribe who speak the “Kui” language.  He lost one of his sons because he could not provide him proper food and medicines.  His wife is an Adivasi woman who ekes her life as a daily laborer.  He had been working as a whole time worker in the midst of these difficult conditions of life.  The Maoists had indulged in this ghastly act of killing an activist and leader of people’s movement who had come up from a poorest Adivasi background in the last 15 years.  They have murder comrade Com. Arjun when he was alone, unarmed, pushing aside his wife who tried to prevent the attack and shot com. Arjun dead by firing the gun at a point-blank range.  These acts show that the Maoists had degenerated to such a state where they resort to individual terrorist actions in the name of peoples movement and seek to make the people live under the illusion that the creation of terror and anarchy is revolution.  It proves that they have resorted to these cowardly acts only because the consistent and organized people’s movement which is developing under the leadership of Chasi Muliya Adivasi Sangh will expose the bankruptcy of their terrorist actions.

            The people would face and repulse these ghastly deeds carried on in the name of Maoists too in the same way as they are facing the attacks of the landlords and pettandars and police repression.  Anyone who has respect for the people, convictions in the people’s movement cannot resort to this kind of atrocious acts.  We, therefore, appeal to the people as a whole, the democrats and intellectuals in particular to denounce this ghastly act of the Maoists.   We appeal to them to seriously expose the Maoist politics of murdering the activists and leaders of people’s movement by unilaterally affixing labels to them.

With Revolutionary Greetings,

ALL INDIA KHET MAZDOOR KISAN SABHA

(AIKMKS)

09.08.2010

Vijayawada

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SOLVE IMMEDIATELY THE LAND PROBLEMS OF ADIVASIS IN KORAPUT

SOLVE IMMEDIATELY THE LAND PROBLEM OF

ADIVASIS IN KORAPUT DISTRICT!

STOP REPRESSION AGAINST THE STRUGGLE OF

ADIVASIS IN ANDHRA – ORISSA BORDER AREA!!

Friends,

            Today, the problem of Koraput district is a point of debate among all.  The Chasi Muliya Adivasi Sangh is carrying on the struggle for the rights over the land, water and forest in this area.  The Adivasi are facing insults and repression in the course of struggle for their rights.  On one side, the state and on the other side the shahukars, contractors and sundis together are building a “counter movement” in a most heinous manner by forming peace committees to suppress the Adivasi movement.  It is already two months that the liquor traders and the sundis, who had usurped the lands of Adivasi, committed atrocious act on Com. Kirma and burnt down the Jadaba village.  But the police arrested none.  No compensation was given to the villagers whose houses were burnt down.  When the Adivasi of the same village had gone to Kommuganda to bring their monthly ration rice, not only they were not given the rice, but the Panchayat Secretary Ramachandra had chased them away while beating.  All the criminals together with the Shahukars, liquor traders, and BJD contractors colluded to form the “peace committee”.  This “peace committee” had resorted to physical attacks against the Adivasi of Sangh in Kumbariput area, forced them to leave the villages and is imposing thousands of rupees as fine on them and destroying their properties.  The “peace committee” is doing all this right in the presence of the District authorities.

            Last month, a boy of 12 years old was murdered by some criminals in the midnight in a village called Pottesi in Bandugaon block.  This incident had saddened every one.  But the peace committee is conspiring to throw the blame for it on the Chasi Muliya Adivasi Sangh (CMAS).  As part of this, the Koraput and Andhra Police had arrested an Adivasi Youth Kithanna who went to Parvathipruam fair to sell his goats.  They took him to Koraput and tortured him.  Instead of arresting the criminals who had resorted to violence and atrocities against the Adivasi; the police are conspiring to foist false cases against the Adivasi who are the members of CMAS.

            Katragadda is a village at one end of Bandugaon block and adjoining the Narayanapatna block.  Singanna gang is pressurizing the people of this village to join their Sangh.  It is already one month that the people of this village were beaten and forced to leave the village.  The CMAS has given them the self confidence and sent them back to their village to protect their own crops.  Singanna gang has once again came to this village and is pressurizing the people to pay Rs.50, 000/- as a fine.  The Adivasi in Koraput are suffering with many other problems together with this problem.

            Last year, the Adivasi had suffered a total loss of crops because of the drought.  All the schemes like food for work, minimum working days have totally failed.  Hundreds of people are leaving the villages and are migrating to distant places in search of work.  It is usual for the people to die every day because of malaria and cholera.  The CMAS is organizing the people into struggles for several years even in the midst of these horrible conditions.  Yet, the rulers are not implementing the 2/56 Act in this area. Seeing the ever growing discontentment and protest among the people the central and state rulers are conspiring to suppress the movement in this area by declaring as a Disturbed Area.  On the other side, they are conducting the counter movements in the name of shanti committees and Nagarik Suraksha Committee with a view to crush the struggling people.  They are hatching this conspiracy only to divide the people and pave the way to give away the natural wealth minerals in the Devmali Mountains to the foreign Multi National Companies.

            There is every need today for the Adivasi, dalits and non-Adivasi poor to unite against the exploitation, oppression and suppression and carry on the struggle against the policies of exploiting ruling classes.  But, in this situation, the “New Democracy” party which has neither the people’s movement nor organization in this district is working day in and day out to discredit the movement led by the CMAS and its leaders.  The ND party has adopted the decision in its party conference to the effect that it is not correct to form rival organizations and carry on activities in a specific area where other revolutionary groups are building the movement.  But they kept this aside and are carrying on the slander campaign against our Sangh in Bandugaon area of Koraput district which will be useful to the enemy classes (they have one small village and street in this area).  This slander campaign had shown no influence whatsoever on the people of this area as the people know the facts.  This slander campaign is only carried on to confuse the people and the revolutionary sympathizers outside the area.  There are many agency areas in Orissa where there are no revolutionary parties and revolutionary organizations.  It would be very much useful if they use their energies and time to build the movement there.  We appeal to them to stop the activities aimed at attacking and disrupting the co-revolutionary organization and the movement.

            The statements by the CPI (Maoists) that they would kill comrades Paidamma, Arjun, the leaders of our Chasi Muliya Adivasi Sangh, Com. D.Varma, the secretary, Rythu Cooli Sangh, Vizianagaram District and its Joint Secretary Com. Monangi Bhaskara Rao would only gladden the landlords and pettandars in this area.  Our Varma, whom they want to kill, is working as the District Secretary of Rythu Cooli Sang am for the last 15 years.  He had been in the student’s organization and revolutionary politics and is working selflessly dedicating himself to the Adivasi movement.  In this course, he encountered the attacks from the pettandars and went to Jail several times in false cases foisted against him.  It is known to all that Com. Varma was the first accused together with Com. Bhaskara Rao and some others in the false case foisted by the Andhra Police for a drought raid carried by the Maoists on June, 17, 2009 in Panasabhadra village of Makkuva mandal in Vizianagaram District.  Com. Bhaskara Rao was imprisoned in the Central Jail for a month in this case.  Com. Paidamma has earned the anger and fury of pettandars and police because she led the movement against the liquor trade.  She was imprisoned twice for two months on the plea that she was co-operating with the Maoists.  Even today, she is pulling on her life by toiling on the land.  Similarly, Com. Kendruka Arjun is a poorest Adivasi.  For the last 10 years, he is working for the Adivasi leaving his home.  All the people in this area know that he lost his son because of his poverty and inability to buy proper medicines for him when he was sick.  We are of the view that it is a politically immature act for the CCMs of CPI (Maoist) to declare that they would kill the comrades of this kind.

            We appeal to the people, the democrats, revolutionary sympathizers and revolutionary mass organizations to denounce these policies of murder.  We also appeal to extend all forms of help and co-operation to the movement led by the Chasi Muliya Adivasi Sangh.

CHASI MULIYA ADIVASI SANGH                                    RYTHU COOLI SANGHAM (AP)

KORAPUT, RAYAGADA DISTRICTS        VIZIANAGARAM, SRIKAKULAM DISTRICTS

02.11.2009

BANDUGAON

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Publishers: Com. SRIKANTH MOHANTHY, State Convener, CHASI MULIYA ADIVASI SANGH, Orissa

                    Com. TANDRA ARUNA, Srikakulam District Secretary, Rythu Cooli Sang am (AP)

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READ                         AAGUAN (ORIYA)

                                    COMMUNIST REVOLUTIONARIES BI-MONTHLY

APPEAL TO DEMOCRATS AND INTELLECTUALS.

ALL INDIA KHET MAZDOOR KISAN SABHA (AIKMKS)

CONVENOR:-                                                                                  CO-CONVENOR:-

 SUBODH MITRA                                                  S.JHANSI

AN APPEAL TO DEMOCRATS AND INTELLECTUALS

Friends,

            With all anguish we bring to your notice on undesirable development in Koraput district of Orissa State.

            The CPI (Maoist) has murdered Com. Kendruka Arjun, the leader of Adivasi people’s movement in Koraput district.  Here are some facts:

1. On Aug, 9, 2010, at about 2.00 PM Com. Arjun was taking his sick wife to hospital by a bicycle.  A murder squad of CPI (Maoist) way laid him and sought to take him forcibly to an isolated place on the plea to talk to him.  Com. Arjun has suspected their intentions.  He coolly told them that the talk can be had later in the presence of people.  But they did not listen to him.  They hit him down and pushed his ailing wife who came to his rescue.  Then, the murder squad has pulled out their weapons, bumped the bullets in Com. Arjun’s body from a point blank range.  This was clearly a premeditated and cold blooded murder committed by the Maoists against the leader of Adivasi people’s movement.

2.         Com. Arjun was the leader of Adivasi people’s movement in Andhra – Orissa border area and the Secretary of Chasi Muliya Adivasi Sangh, Koraput district.  Through his one and half decade long dedicated and hard work he earned the affection of people and emerged as their popular leader.  He encountered various types of attacks from the landlords, pettandars and state repression.  He staunchly believed that the people can emancipate themselves from the present wretched conditions of life through their own organized and united struggle.  He refused to be attracted by the glamour’s of the line of individual terrorism which can only undermine and negate the people’s movement.

            For quite a long time the Maoists are intolerant towards the Adivasi movement which was developing in an organized and consistent manner in Koraput district under the leadership of Chasi Muliya Adivasi Sangh because this would expose their line of individual terrorism.  They had been trying to malign, pressurize and threaten the leaders of CMAS through posters and statements.  Com.Arjun was one of these leaders who was threatened to be killed by the Maoists.  However, Com. Arjun has refused to be cowed down by these threats.  He continued to lead the CMAS and the peoples movement.

            We brought this dangerous attitude and attempts of the Maoists through appeals, statements and letters to the notice of democrats and intellectuals.  We requested them to condemn the same and intervene in the situation in the best interests of people’s movement against the exploiting classes and their state.

3.         We believe that we have every right to pursue a line of relying on the conscious, organized and united struggle of people to realize a fundamental change and improvement in their lives.  We believe that it is the people, people alone who are the real builders of their life.  We feel it our responsibility to remain with the people and guide the people in their struggle.  We believe that the line of individual terrorism will only weaken and disrupt the movement.  We consider the politics and methods of pressure, treats and murder to impose or terrorist line on us or for that matter on any one is totally undemocratic, even fascist and go against the interests of people and their movement.  We, therefore, reject the politics of threats and murder put into practice by the Maoists through their ghastly murder of Com. Kendruka Arjun.  The Maoists had exposed their anti-people character by choosing a poor Adivasi and a popular leader dedicated to the cause of oppressed Adivasi people for their murderous attack.  Here they have thrown to winds all revolutionary ethics.  Their line and methods would only create hurdles and difficulties in the way of democratic rights movement.

            Today, the rulers in the centre and states are intensifying the repression in every form to nip the growing peoples discontentment and struggles in the bud in an attempt to deprive the peoples from the right over lands, water, forest, means of livelihood and other natural resources and open up flood gates for their all out loot and control by the imperialists and the Indian Corporate houses and thus spell disaster for our people and the country.  This situation underline the need of an united, organized and consistent peoples movement against the policies of ruling classes and the Government.  The acts like threatening and murdering the leaders of people’s movement would only gladden the exploiting classes.  We, therefore, demand to shun such methods and appeal to those democratic and intellectual who are taking a complacent attitude towards these methods to rethink. 

            We appeal to all the people, the democratic, civil liberties and human rights organizations, intellectuals and all those who are concerned about the interests of people and people’s movements to condemn the ghastly murder of Com. Arjun by the Maoists and oppose their politics and methods of threats and murder.  We appeal to intervene and see that the interests of people’s movement as a whole are protected and advanced.

            Here we are enclosing some material that gives you more information.

                                                                                                   With Revolutionary Greetings,

CONVENOR                                                                                                CONVENOR

CHASI MULIYA SANGH, ORISSA         ALL INDIA KHET MAZDOOR KISAN SABHA (AIKMKS)

ON CHARACTER OF INDIAN SOCIETY -By Com.P.Jaswantha Rao.

ON CHARACTER OF INDIAN SOCIETY.

Com. P.Jaswantha Rao.

Four decades have passed since the Communist Revolutionaries broke away from neo revisionism. One of the basic differences that demarcated CRs from the neo-revisionism was and still now is the assessment of the character of Indian society as semi-feudal and semi-colonial one. The neo-revisionists maintained that India is politically independent and capitalist with remnants of feudalism.

Even today many of the CRs maintain that India is a semi-feudal and semi-colonial society. Yet there prevailed confusion about the understanding of semi-feudal and semi-colonial nature and its interrelation and operation. Because of this confusion time and again many questions are being raised about the character, its existence and operation. During these four decades many developments appeared in the Indian society. How to understand these changes? Have they affected the basic nature of Indian society?

The bourgeois propaganda machine has been spreading that feudalism was relegated to history and India is a capitalist country aspiring to become world power corroborating the aspirations of Indian big bourgeoisie which came off its age and is able to compete in the international market. Does the changes that occurred during the last four decades warrants such a conclusion?

When we discuss about the character of Indian society, we can not discuss feudalism and imperialism as separate entities. From the beginning they are interrelated.

When we look into the feudalism in India, we are aware that it differs from European feudalism in many respects. The Asiatic mode of production that prevailed in India before the advent of colonial conquest was destroyed by the British rule. On the other hand, the British reconstructed Indian society in such a fashion that it serves the colonial subjugation and plunder. With the introduction of railways, the British sowed the seeds of capitalist relations in India. At the same time in agrarian sector, which had no right of property in land, they imposed zamindari and ryotwari land tenure systems. In both the systems land was considered as private property and commodity and was placed in the hands of landlords. Thus the Indian feudal system was created and nurtured by the colonial power and acted as a conduit to siphon off wealth from rural India to colonial metropolis. It acted as the social base for the colonial power.

On the other hand, by creating Zamindari and other forms of intermediaries, the British created buffer tier between it and the people so as to insulate the colonial power from the direct onslaught on the people. When the wrath of the people threatens to bring down the zamindari, the colonial power intervened to suppress the revolt. Moreover, utilizing the feudal system it imposed upon India as its social base had helped colonialism in more than one way. One of the major benefits was the plunder that led to the accumulation of capital on a huge scale in Europe. This accumulated wealth from the colonies had played a major role in transforming the capitalism into its highest stage, imperialism.

Thus India was a colony and feudal society with capitalist relations scattered here and there under the British rule. In the process of development of mercantile capitalism into Imperialism, the British started some industries like cotton ginning, jute and textiles etc. In the course, the British rule gave birth to a local merchant class that thrived on supplying raw materials to industries and selling the British industrial products.

While the railways and other industries gave birth to the working class, it also created a middle class for its administrative needs. To meet these needs it introduced modern education which brought progressive and democratic ideas to the Indian people.

As the capitalist grows into imperialism, as the finance capitals gain upper hand on the economy, and as the world capitalist system mired in the crisis leading to the world war, Industrialization has accelerated with mercantile class turning into capitalists acting as compradors to British Bourgeoisie. Thus the capitalist development from the beginning was tied to imperialism with innumerable ties. And the Indian capitalist class was from its inception comprador in nature.

At the height of Indian people’s movement for national liberation, The British colonialists reached a compromise with the big bourgeoisie and the big land lords and turned over their rule to the later with the secret understanding that they basically kept the economic interests of the British colonialist intact.Consequently foreign investments have not only been safeguarded  but have been allowed to grow with stupendous speed. Even though certain privileges of feudal princes and zamindars have been abolished, the feudal land system and in its wake feudal class and caste relations have not only been preserved as a whole but in some respects have been strengthened. Added to this has been the increasing dependence of the government on foreign aid. Economical independence has become a mirage. Thus India became a semi-feudal and semi-colonial society.

One may incline to call it as semi-capitalist. But it does not represent the reality. It is natural for the capitalist relations to constantly reproduce themselves and finally break from the shackles of feudalism by destroying it. But here imperialism had an important role. World over the imperialism has lost its progressive role and joined hands with every reactionary classes to perpetuate its hegemony and exploitation as the fear of being overthrown by the working class revolution overwhelmed it after the Paris Commune and the victory of great October revolution. As the Indian Feudal system was designed and nurtured by imperialism it acted as a faithful servant to imperialism. The capitalist relations in the agriculture were allowed to grow to the extent that it would facilitate the exploitation by the imperialism.

Hence capitalist relations in agriculture have no future of its own; its fate is sealed by imperialism. They could not grow on their own to the level of destroying the feudal society and develop the Indian Society into a capitalist one. Taking this reality into cognizance, we characterized it as semi-feudal as its overthrow only can move the Indian society on the path of progress.

After the transfer of power, The Indian ruling classes were forced to adopt certain anti-feudal measures under the pressure of anti-feudal heroic struggles waged by the Indian Peasantry. Prominent among them was heroic Telangana peasant armed struggle. The new Indian regime while drowned the peasant movements in blood, sought to sow illusions among the people. Mouthing the progressive slogans, the Nehru regime enacted Zamindari abolition act, tenancy protection act and later land ceiling act. But these acts were never implemented in the spirit of declared intentions. With innumerable in-built loopholes these gave sufficient scope for landlord sections to retain their hold on the vast tracts of land. Not a single acre land was given to landless poor except those lands which were occupied by the peasants in the course of their struggle.

This policy of duping the people continued for two decades. By 1967, the unrest among peasant masses grew and drawn them into struggles for land. Prominent among them were Naxalbari and Srikakulam struggles. While the congress government suppressed these movements with bullets, it also gave calls to distribute lands to the poor. It amended land ceiling laws and started to call them as land reforms. But the ruling classes had no intention of implementing the revolutionary land reforms that destroys the feudalism and redistribute the land on the basis of land to the tiller.The carrot and stick policy inherited from their colonial rulers was skillfully implemented by the Indian ruling classes.

At the same time the Indian ruling classes and their government adopted the green revolution strategy with all the directions and financial help from imperialism, particularly the US imperialism. This strategy aimed at preventing the revolution from the down trodden by increasing the yield of crops with infusion of technology known as­­ High Yielding Varieties. Actually these HYVs are High Response Varieties’. They increase yields if only the inputs were correspondingly increased. These inputs include water, chemical fertilizers, pesticides and seeds. While the World Bank extended loans and grants to irrigation projects to create pockets of irrigated areas, MNC’s supplied their products such as fertilizers and pesticides and reaped profits. On the whole, the green revolution strategy served as a conduit for the foreign capital to penetrate into agriculture sector. Even by conservative estimates, nearly more than half of the income generated by the increased yields was pocketed by the MNCs.

As Com.T.Nagi Reddy explained in his statement “India Mortgaged”, the bourgeois and landlord government India has taken to the path of gradual transformation of landlord latifundia into bourgeois economy, with all its plans for the supply of seeds, fertilizers, use of pesticides, mechanization of agriculture, extensive funneling of state loans into the landlord economy with the help of immense aid from the international finance. As Lenin has explained this evolution into bourgeois-Junker-landlord economy….. , condemns the peasants to decades of most harrowing expropriation and bondage.

He further explained that, “this is what we are witnessing in our country today. The excruciating pain which  the rural economy today is undergoing – the forceful eviction of small peasants and tenants, the growth of concentration of land, increase in the number of agricultural labour, the growing hegemony of upper castes over lower castes – are all symptoms of this growing disease.”  He called upon Communist Revolutionaries to firmly oppose this transformation of Feudal Landlordism by supporting the fighting peasantry for the total liquidation of Feudal Landlordism.

The developments in later decades proved that Com.TN was correct.

The crisis in green revolution strategy as it expressed in its failure to sustain the continuous rise of productivity of crops led to wide spread unrest among the peasantry and rural masses. In the absence of genuine democratic and communist leadership, this unrest was channelised by the ruling class sections in late 1970 and 80s. The farmers leaders like Sarad Joshi, Tikayat sing, Nanjundaswamy etc had come on the scene to lead many a struggle. it is a well known fact that the social dynamic factor that contributed to the Khalistan movement in Punjab was the crisis in the green revolution.

The failure of green revolution landed the country in a severe crisis.

During this period, the industrial base of the Indian society had been widened through of the adoption of public sector as the leader. As clearly observed by Marx in his writings, once the capitalist relations were introduced in a country like India which has all the potential to develop into a capitalist country, nothing could stop the reproduction of these capitalist relations. This gave rise national bourgeoisie mainly in the form of small scale industry. But imperialism with its strangulating hold on the Indian state had been either destroying these rising capitalist relations through uneven competition or adopting them to serve its monopoly interests. Numerous instances can be quoted here how the imperialism amalgamated the indigenous industries or destroyed them. Suffice it to say that as a result the Indian national bourgeoisie could not able to grow beyond certain stages and assert it in terms of its class interests. Thus the emerging capitalist relations in the industrial section were always remained in a deep crisis, living at the mercy of Indian big bourgeoisie and imperialism. On the other hand, the big bourgeoisie continue to be comprador in nature through myriad arrangement in the form joint ventures, technical and financial collaborations. Even though the value of assets and investments by the big bourgeoisie grew phenomenally, their dependence on imperialism also grew proportionally.

In the first half of 1980 decade, the Indian economy faced a severe all-round crisis and the Indian ruling classes turned to the imperialism to extricate them from the crisis. The imperialist financial institutions – World Bank and IMF – started dictating restructuring of Indian economy so as to increase the imperialist plunder many times. The loan taken from the IMF was paid back by the Indira Gandhi government not because the Indian economy had turned around but because of remittances made by the Indian workers toiling in gulf countries. While this was tom-tom as the success of the policies that were implemented, the crisis forced the Indian government to prostrate before their imperialist masters and PV Narasimha Rao’s government embarked on the New Economic policies as designed and dictated by imperialism.

The New Economic Policies had turned the agriculture into economically unviable activity for the poor and middle peasants. Some of these measures are hiking the rates of electricity, fertilizers and irrigation water. The effect of these set of policies was immediately felt by the vast peasant masses. The deep rooted malaise got expressed in the form of suicides by the peasants. The depth and extent of the crisis can be gauged by the very fact that the total number of suicides by farmers surpassed one and a half lakhs in the span of 8 years. Yet the Indian ruling classes and their political representatives were undaunted in their pursuit of the policies dictated by imperialism and started exhorting the virtues of implementation of second stage of economic reforms, particularly in agriculture, second stage of green revolution.  This makes it clear that it was a deliberate policy and not an aberration. The aim of this strategy was to implement a set policy that turns the Indian agriculture into an appendage to the imperialist economy. The Indian agriculture shall produce to meet the commercial needs of the agribusiness MNCs and not to meet the needs of the Indian people. By pauperizing the poor and middle peasants through economic levers, the ruling classes intend to push the peasants into contact and/or corporate farming which in practice degrade the peasant to tied producer or farm land supervising the cultivation on behalf of the MNC. The slogan of intensive cultivation and mechanization of agriculture which led to green revolution and the country into an intractable crisis, continue to hold the field with addition of genetically modified seeds which are designed to perpetuate the dependence of agricultural production upon the MNCs for inevitable use of inputs. Thus the penetration of imperialist capital into agriculture will take place with full force.

The effect of these policies has led to the concentration of land in the hands of neo rich sections that amassed wealth by siphoning off the public funds. This concentration is not of the nature of capitalist relation. The land is being increasingly leased out to the peasants at exorbitant rent, which is nothing but extra economic coercion because otherwise land is not available to the peasant who had no other way of employment. The increasing number of rent farming indicates this.

Yes, the form of feudal exploitation had changed; but not the content. The vast masses of peasantry (which includes landless laborers, poor and middle peasants) were forced submit to the exploitation being deprived of means of production that is land. During the last four decades, with the penetration of imperialist capital, the peasant masses are burdened with the additional task of quenching thirst of imperialist sharks.

Hence, the agricultural sector has witnessed many changes, but continues to reel under feudal forms of exploitation and imperialist plunder. The intensity of exploitation had increased many folds withholding any progress of the Indian society towards independent capitalism and the Indian ruling classes along with the imperialism are maintaining status quo to safeguard their rule. Hence the Indian society continues to be semi-feudal in nature.

The new economic policies being implemented as part of globalization strategy of imperialism have brought vast changes in the industrial sector. In pursuit of maximizing profits the imperialism gobbled up the manufacturing sector in India often replacing the Indian big bourgeoisie. The basic sectors like iron and steel, coal, non-ferrous metal, power generation went into the hands of foreign monopoly capitalists. Even in the service sector telecommunications was taken over by the telecom MNCs and the public sector BSNL is up for sale. The most publicized infrastructure projects being implemented are all pocketed by the foreign companies in the name of joint ventures. Foreign capital has occupied commanding heights in the Indian economy. India became a happy hunting ground for every imperialist to plunder our national resources, human labour and financial sources at whatever rate they like. All the imperialist countries are competing with each other to increase their hold on our economy.

The Indian big bourgeoisie has grown; their assets grew at astronomical numbers; their industries grew in numbers. When we dissect each and every investment made by the big bourgeoisie, we will find they were tied with foreign capital with innumerable threads like financial, technical and corporate collaborations. And the foreign capitalist had the final say in running the industry. The big bourgeoisie claims itself as corporate entity, but in fact almost all the big bourgeois houses function as private limited companies in the form of Hindu undivided family; and thus they are in no way answerable to society; even they were not called for disclosing their profits. Despite apparent growth, the growth of Indian big bourgeoisie is stunted because of its comprador nature and it’s dependence on imperialism for its survival. The increase of imperialist hold on the Indian society denotes that it continues to be semi-colonial in nature.

The apparent changes that we are witnessing during the last four decades are brought into effect to meet the changing exploiting needs of imperialism and Indian big bourgeoisie. And thus have not intended to change its status as semi-colony.

Thus India continues as semi-feudal and semi-colonial society. Unless and until the Revolutionary Redistribution of Land basing on the LAND TO THE TILLER is implemented, the feudal relations and their existence will not disappear. Unless and until the imperialist capital was thrown out of the country with its allies, Indian society does progress an inch forward. Imperialism, Feudalism and bureaucratic comprador capitalism are decisive impediments for the progress of Indian Society into a democratic, self reliant and independent society. Only the success of New Democratic Revolution will guarantee such a transformation. It is the duty of Communist Revolutionaries to strive to build united party that provides leadership to the revolutionary strugglers of the Indian people.

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PRESS STATEMENT ON COMRADE KANU SANYAL.

Communist Party Of India(Marxist-Leninist) CPI(ML)
Central Committee.  Vill: Sebdella, P.O. Hatisghisa, Dt.Darjeeling, Bengal. Phone-0353-2004020.

The central committee of CPI(ML) pays its homage to the memory of our beloved leader Com.Kanu Sanyal and lowers its red banner in his honor

Com.Kanu Sanyal was our General Secretary. He breathed his last on 23rd March,2010 at Hatisghisa Party Office at the age of 81.

He was the legendary leader of Naxalbari uprising that heralded a new dawn of Indian Revolutionary movement after the great Telengana Revolutionary struggle.

He led a life of professional revolutionary spanning 60 years and his life long adherence to Communist values would remain for ever a constant source of inspiration to us.

His life was full of struggles,sufferings and long imprisonment and was entirely dedicated to the cause of Indian revolution.

A relentless and uncompromising fighter against imperialism and feudalism Comrade Kanu Sanyal always championed the cause of mass of the people.

He lived among the Adivasi Peasants and Tea garden workers of Terrai and always stood by them in their struggles against ruthless exploitation by the Jotedars and Tea plantation owners.

For the last thirty years, since his release from the Jail in May 1979, he had been engaged in the task of carrying forward the unity of Communist Revolutionaries waging relentless ideological and political fight against right revisionism and parliamentary cretinism on the one hand, and left adventurism and terrorism on the other, to build a genuine communist party under the banner of Marxism-Leninism-Mao-Tse Tung Thought

With this avowed objective in view, he carried on political work and took part in committee meetings and other activities of the party notwithstanding his failing health for the last two years.

ONLY IN THE THIRD WEEK OF FEBRUARY 2010 HE TOOK PART IN 4 DAY LONG CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEETING HELD AT THE PARTY OFFICE , HATISGHISA AND BEFORE THAT PARTICIPATED IN 4 DAY  ALL INDIA SPECIAL CONFERENCE  HELD IN 2009.BESIDES, HE AGREED TO BE PRESENT IN THE BENGAL STATE COMMITTEE MEETING SCHEDULED TO BE HELD ON 9TH AND 10th APRIL AT HATISGHISA PARTY OFFICE.

His death is an irreparable loss to the advancement of revolutionary struggles in the country and the toiling millions have lost a friend and leader of theirs

THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF CPI(ML) FIRMLY REITERATES ITS STAND THAT A REVOLUTIONARY LEADER OF COM.KANU SANYAL 'S STATURE COULD NOT KILL HIMSELF AND IT DOES NOT ACCEPT WHAT IS PUBLICIZED ABOUT HIS DEATH.

The Central Committee in its recently held meeting resolved to probe into his death taking into consideration all possible aspects of the incident.

The Central Committee condemns outright the way a malicious campaign was being conducted by some political circles through a section of media - negating the entire revolutionary political life of Com.Kanu Sanyal as well as the very revolutionary goal for which Comrade Kanu Sanyal stood for all through his life.

The Central Committee resolves to re butt ideologically and politically all the malicious propaganda based on falsehood, against Com.Kanu Sanyal and our Party by the vested interest and reactionary quarters.

RED SALUTE TO COMRADE KANU SANYAL.


SILIGURI
5 APRIL 2010

CENTRAL COMMITTEE
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OUR COMRADE, LEADER AND GENERAL SECRETARY OF CPI(ML) COM.KANU SANYAL

COMRADE KANU SANYAL, THE GENERAL SECRETARY OF CPI (ML) AND THE LEADER OF GREAT NAXALBARI STRUGGLE, PASSEDAWAY ON MARCH 23, 2010 at HATTISGISHA, BENGAL. WE GAVE HEART FELT LAST HOMAGE TO OUR LEADER. THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ATTENDED THE LAST JOURNEY