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)