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Comrade Azad Is Immortal! 1972 Came Into Contact with CPI (M-L) While He Was in B.Tech JOURNEY OF COMRADE AZAD The working class intellectual, a Great leader of the oppressed masses and Politburo member 1954 May 14 - Born in a rich peasant family in Krishna dis- trict of Andhra Pradesh. Comrade Azad is immortal! 1972 Came into contact with CPI (M-L) while he was in B.Tech. Became Party member. Nobody can kill the ideas of Azad... 1975 Took active role in the formation of Radical Students Union. Elected as Warangal district president of RSU. Nobody can stop the March of Revolution… 1976 Arrested under MISA and 6 months Jail. 1977 Transferred to Visakhapatnam according to the neces- (Politburo Letter To Party Members) sities of the Party. Studied M.Tech. and elected as dis- trict Party committee member. 1978 Elected as state president of Radical Students Union. 1979 Arrested under NSA (National Security Act) in Visakhapatnam. 1981 Played main role in conducting Seminar on Nationality question in Madras (now Chennai). 1983 Transferred to Karnataka state. 1985 Key role in the formation of AIRSF and guiding it. 1987-93 First secretary of Karnataka state committee. 1990 Elected to COC by central plenum. 1995-01 Worked as secretariat member 2001 Elected to CC by the 9th Congress of erstwhile CPI (ML) [People's War] and elected to Politburo. 2001-07 Worked as CC in-charge for AP state committee. 2004 Played important role in merger. Elected to unified CC and PB after the formation of the CPI (Maoist). 2007 Elected to the CC by 9th Congress - Unity Congress 2001-10 Remained in Politburo for 10 years. 2007-10 Took responsibilities of urban subcommittee in-charge and Party spokesperson - 'AZAD'. Politburo 1990-2010 Worked as CC member for 10 years. 2010 July 1 - Martyrdom in the jungles of Adilabad... Communist Party of India (Maoist) PB Letter For Party Members which are favorable for the rapid advancement of the revolutionary move- ment in our country today would give birth to thousands of leaders like The working class intellectual, a Great leader of comrade Azad. They would steel themselves in the flames of class struggle. This is an undeniable fact of the course of history. The ideological-political the oppressed masses and Politburo member and practical work done by comrade Azad and the communist ideals he established have created the basis for such an eventuality. The martyr- Comrade Azad is immortal! dom of a Surapaneni Janardhan had placed an ideal in front of many comrades like Azad. Similarly many more revolutionaries would be born by taking the sacrifice of Azad as an ideal to emulate. They would lead the Nobody can kill the ideas of Azad... Indian revolution. The enemy could eliminate the physical existence of Azad but it would be impossible to stop the ideas he had spread in the Nobody can stop the March of Revolution… party and among the people from turning into a material force. Comrades, The PB appeals to the entire party, PLGA and people in all the states July 1. 2010 is a day of great grief for the oppressed, toiling masses of and guerilla zones of our country to wipe their tears and vow to spread India. As part of the fascist Operation Green Hunt (OGH), the ruling classes people’s war to all the corners of the country to realize the uncompleted which are perpetrating massacres of revolutionary leaders and people aims of Comrade Azad and mobilize millions of people into the revolution- have resorted to another cold blooded butchery. The beloved great leader ary movement and to create thousands of ‘Azads’. Let us vow that we of the Indian people, the Central Committee member, Politburo member would successfully accomplish the New Democratic Revolution by destroy- and official spokesperson Comrade Cherukuri Rajkumar (Azad) was ing this blood thirsty brutal state. caught by Andhra Pradesh Special intelligence Bureau (APSIB) and cen- Let us fight back and defeat the brutal enemy offensive! tral intelligence agencies near Nagpur in Maharashtra along with a freelance th journalist Hemchandra Pandey. At that time he was traveling to Let us vow to fulfill the tasks set by the Unity Congress-9 Con- Dandakaranya to teach Political Economy to the party cadres. The blood- gress and establish base areas! thirsty intelligence officials took them to Jogapur, Sarkepalli forests in Adilabad district and viciously murdered them just as they had murdered Let us effectively carry on political propaganda and fight back many other revolutionary leaders in the past. The enemy assessed that he the enemy’s psywar ! would not be able to extract anything from him in spite of tortures and so Let us build a strong Urban movement to advance the protracted they gave him sedatives in an injection as soon as they caught him. So it is very clear that they caught him with a clear-cut aim of killing him. They people’s war! killed Hemchandra Pandey along with him to cover up this brutal murder. Let us bolshevize the party with the proletarian ideals of Azad! This murder was done as part of a conspiracy hatched by Sonia-Manmohan- Chidambaram gang and later the police spanned the much repeated en- Fulfilling the above tasks would be the real and fitting homage for counter story as usual and announced that an unidentified person was comrade Azad. killed along with Azad in an encounter in Adilabad forests. Comrade Azad was leading the entire urban movement on behalf of Politburo our Central Committee and was also looking after political propaganda and other such crucial responsibilities. He was one of the most popular 28 July, 2010 - Martyrs Day mass leaders. He maintained close relations with many comrades at vari- CPI (Maoist) 2 19 party expressing their condolences. In one word, the working people, ous levels and with the revolutionary masses. In the midst of severe re- democrats and revolutionary camp as a whole in our country and abroad pression, he worked selflessly and unflinchingly in spite of the many risks considered this loss as their own loss. They felt it was their own grief. involved. It is under such circumstances that the enemy came to know Journalist Hemchandra Pandey who was brutally murdered along about his whereabouts somewhere and could catch him by laying in wait. with Comrade Azad belonged to Devarthal village in Pithoragarh district We cannot separate Azad’s life from the revolutionary history of the of Uttarakhand. Media persons, particularly those in Andhra Pradesh, past forty years. Particularly, he played a key role in the ideological, politi- democrats and intellectuals all over India had not only condemned on a cal spheres, party education and running of periodicals and such. He ful- wide scale the murder of a journalist but had also commented that fas- filled the responsibility of the party spokesperson since the new party’s cism is implemented in India in the name of democracy. They demanded Unity Congress as ‘Azad’ in the most excellent and exemplary manner. He an independent probe into this fake encounter. Many democrats attended used his intellect and sharp pen outstandingly in fighting back the ‘War Pandey’s funeral. on People’ led by the Sonia-Manmohan-Chidambaram gang. He stood as The Maoist party ranks and the revolutionary people would always the powerful voice of the people against the rulers and exploiters. In the remember this dynamic journalist and the pro-people budding intellec- development of the party’s political line in the past 35 years, particularly tual born in Uttarakhand far away from AP who had laid down his life from 1992, in the development of the party, people’s army and mass orga- along with Azad without getting deterred by the deadly state violence nizations, in extending the revolutionary movement, in the emergence of and the risks involved. He would be given a respectful and deserving organs of new democratic power and in all the victories won, Azad’s place along side the martyrs of the revolutionary movement. His martyr- ideological, political work and practice played a key role. Unflinching com- dom would be hailed. mitment in face of any number of odds and during the ebb and flow of On this occasion, on behalf of our CC, our Politburo is sending Red the movement, great sacrificing nature, selflessness, simple living, inde- Salutes and appreciation to all these organizations and individuals who fatigable work for the revolution and for the interests of the people, had condemned these brutal murders and expressed solidarity. It is this astounding study, study of changing phenomena in the society from kind of democratic and revolutionary spirit which would give constant time to time, being with the people always are some of the great proletar- inspiration to the masses. ian ideals established by Comrade Azad. Though he is no more, it is unde- niable that he would serve as a revolutionary role model to every revolu- Let us uphold the ideals of Comrade Azad! tionary and particularly to the youth, students and intellectuals. Let us vow to create thousands of ‘Azads’ in his path!! On behalf of the party, PLGA, mass organizations, organs of new democratic power and the entire revolutionary masses our Politburo is The exploiting ruling classes are dreaming that they can stop the paying humble and rich tributes with great respect to Azad with a heavy revolution by snatching Azad from us. Though Azad’s death is a huge loss heart and bowed heads. It is upholding his great ideals. It is vowing to to the Indian revolution and to the fighting people of the world, the intensify the people’s war to accomplish his unfulfilled aim. The enemy service he rendered to the revolution would live on forever.
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