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CPI(Maoist) Information Bulletin-24 Maoist Information Bulletin - 24 October-December 2011 In this Issue Red Homage to Comrade Mallojula Koteswar Rao ..... 2 CPI (Maoist) CC Statement on Koteswarlu .... 11 Condemnations, Condolences and Solidarity Messages from all over the world .... 13 Letter to friends of Indian revolution and well wishers ..... 34 CMC message on the occasion of PLGA 11th Anniversary ..... 36 Voices Against War on People ..... 43 News From the Battlefield ..... 49 From the News Papers ..... 50 News From Behind Bars ..... 50 News From Counter-Revolutionary Camp ..... 51 Statements From Other Organizations ..... 53 CPI (Maoist) Statements ..... 54 Red Homage To The Great Leader Of Indian Revolution Comrade Koteswarlu! On November 24, 2011 we have lost the great taking the revolutionary movement to new heights leader of Indian revolution, CPI (Maoist) Politburo by taking up several responsibilities in the course of member and our beloved comrade Mallojhala development of the party. Ideals such as the superior Koteswarlu. The fascist ruling clique of Sonia- revolutionary commitment and determination, initiative Manmohan-Pranab-Chidambarm-Jairam Ramesh and presence of mind, comradely love and affection, carrying on an unjust war on the oppressed masses dedication, study and serving nature of that martyr colluded with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamta would remain a model to follow for communist Banerji and prepared the conspiratorial ‘covert revolutionaries. Comrade Koteswarlu fought with operation’ plan for murdering comrade Mallojhala unbending courage till the end for the sake of the Koteswarlu. With the revolutionary ideology he coordination of central IB and believed in and dedicated his West Bengal state intelligence, invaluable services to the the most cruel officers in the revolutionary movement high-command of the selflessly. MIB is humbly commando forces caught him paying red homage to martyr unarmed in a covert plan. The comrade Koteswarlu with cowardly enemy mercenary great respect. killer gang tortured him in the most unspeakable manner and Family Background his body was turned into pulp Comrade Koteswarlu in the most horrible manner. He was born on November 26, was brought in the last stage 1954 in Peddapally town of of his life to Burishol in Karimnagar district in the state Kushboni forest of West of Andhra Pradesh. His Midnapore district (in West mother was Madhuramma and Bengal), shot dead and then a his father was Venkataiah. false encounter story was They raised their children circulated. amidst many financial Comrade Koteswarlu is a difficulties and influenced great revolutionary. He was a them with democratic ideas. brave fighter who did not With the encouragement of his waver in the face of tortures father, he studied the writings by the enemy. He set up a great of progressive writers and ideal for the future generations by holding aloft the imbibed anti-feudal and revolutionary flag while preserving the party secrets progressive ideas since his childhood. In the later spilling his warm blood. period when comrade Koteswarlu carried on revolutionary activities on a vast scale, he always Comrade Koteswarlu was a revolutionary of the got revolutionary sympathy, moral support and help post-Naxalbari generation. Though Naxalbari in all manners from his parents and relatives. During suffered a setback he was influenced with the lessons the period of legal opportunities gained after of that great revolutionary tide and started his political Emergency, their house also served as a revolutionary career when the party was making preparations for centre. In those days many comrades used to a new revolutionary upsurge. He became a part of frequent their home and they were like parents to all that upsurge and when that was developing as a of them. Though they faced severe repression from higher level People’s War, he developed along with it the police and their house was destroyed two times and became one of the prominent leaders who led they did not surrender to enemy counseling. Their that movement. As part of expanding the encouragement in the development of Koteswarlu revolutionary movement he worked in several areas as a revolutionary is immense. and built mass movements. He worked tirelessly in 2 Oct-Dec 2011 MIB-24 Initiation Into The Movements During Comrade Koteswarlu took shelter near his friends Student Days and relatives and transformed them into revolutionary sympathizers and played a revolutionary role in By the time comrade Koteswarlu’s high school involving his younger brother in the revolutionary study was completed, the movement for separate movement along with him. During Emergency, police Telangana came to the fore in 1969 and immersed shot dead comrades Surapaneni Janardhan, Sudhakar, the youth in its upsurge. Young Koteswarlu Anand Rao and Murli Mohan in a fake encounter at participated in it militantly. He developed into one of Girayipalli and in this backdrop all the revolutionaries the student leaders of the movement for separate had to conduct their activities in the most secret Telangana in Peddapally town. Comrade Koteswarlu manner. Comrade Koteswarlu was arrested near was intelligent in his studies. He was popular among Marigadda in Sircilla area while expanding the students. He joined the PUC in Karimnagar and revolutionary activities immediately after the lifting was acquainted with revolutionary politics and of Emergency. Literary Friends. With each year, his relations with revolutionary politics deepened. Rebuilding The Party – 1977 Telangana Regional Conference In 1973 he burnt the ‘national’ flag in his college along with his revolutionary friends as part of To overcome the setback of Naxalbari and boycotting sham independence day celebrations and Srikakulam, the Andhra Pradesh State Committee got arrested. He participated in the building of (APSC) belonging to the stream of erstwhile People’s revolutionary student organization in 1974 and laid War party in its document named ‘Let us review the the foundations for the building of a strong past and advance the armed struggle’ (Self-Critical revolutionary student organization in the district. Report – SCR) had summarized the positive and While participating actively in the revolutionary negative lessons imparted by the glorious student movement, he abandoned his studies and revolutionary upsurge of those days. The party came developed into a full time party activist. In 1975, after to the conclusion that only by basing on these lessons the formation of the Radical Student Union (RSU), and carrying on ideological, political and organizational he strove to spread the student movement in the work by depending on the remaining limited district. Koteswarlu developed contacts with subjective forces it could create another new revolutionary literary and cultural organizations and revolutionary upsurge. Party concentrated its efforts became a part of the civil rights movement too and in this direction while carrying on a serious struggle strove to build these organizations in the district. with right opportunism. SCR document made the When comrades Bhoomaiah and Kista Goud, peasant party change our leftist tactics. It steered the party’s revolutionary activists were sentenced to death, practice in the correct direction. Emergency was lifted comrade Koteswarlu participated in the agitations that due to the deluge of mass protests against fascist flared up all over the state against the death sentences rule and due to the severe contradictions between and also involved the students in the district in the ruling classes. As a result favorable conditions were agitation. created for open activities. On June 26, 1975 Emergency was declared in In the beginning of 1977, Telangana Regional India. In the most fascist manner, the then Prime Conference of the party was held in Nagpur. This Minister of India, Indira Gandhi transformed the whole conference passed the ‘Path for Revolution’ country into a jail. During the Emergency, all the document formulated by the COC in 1974-75. revolutionary parties and revolutionary mass Comrade Koteswarlu attended this conference as a organizations were banned and had to go underground. delegate. Later APSC released the ‘August Comrade Koteswarlu too went underground and Resolution’ according to the concrete conditions. worked among the rural peasantry of Vemulavada in Plans were formulated to develop the revolutionary Sircilla taluq in the district and learnt his first lessons movement in its light with new tactics and basing on in agrarian revolution. As there were no regular mass line. contacts with the secret party leadership during the As result of the armed agrarian revolutionary Emergency, the cadres led their revolutionary life with work carried on by firmly implementing this plan, Bolshevik determination keeping their whereabouts another new revolutionary upsurge began with very secret to the enemy and fulfilling their daily needs Karimnagar, Adilabad, Chittoor, Anantapur and and traveling expenses etc with the little money they Visakha struggles in Andhra Pradesh and with Gaya, got as funds from revolutionary sympathizers. MIB-24 Oct-Dec 2011 3 Aurangabad, Hazaribagh, Giridih, Palamau and identified by the Sanghams and distributed to the Jehanabad struggles in Bihar due to the efforts of landless poor peasants. The land lord class that was erstwhile MCC and Party Unity streams. As one of alarmed by the upsurge of the revolutionary the leading comrades of Karimnagar district, comrade peasantry, increased pressure on the
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