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Maoists in India: Writings & Interviews AZAD Maoists in India: Writings & Interviews AZAD Foreign Languages Press Foreign Languages Press Collection “Colorful Classics” #4 (English) A collection directed by Christophe Kistler Contact - [email protected] Utrecht, 2018 ISBN: 9781539980643 Printing: • 1st printing: 50 copies • 2nd printing: 50 copies • 3rd printing: 50 copies • 4th printing: 50 copies This book is under license Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC-BY-SA 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Contents Forward: In Honour of Our Friend 6 A Brief Biography 10 Azad’s Writings & Interviews 14 1. Maoists in India 15 2. On the ‘Comprehensive Peace Agree- 38 ment’ in Nepal 3. Interview on the Developments in 43 Nepal 4. On V. Prabhakaran 66 5. On Patel Sudhakar Reddy & Venkataiah 70 6. On the Election Boycott Tactic of the 73 Maoists 7. Interview on the Government Military 91 Offensive 8. Maoists on Talks 141 9. Red Salutes to Balagopal 145 10. On Telangana 148 11. On Sakhamuri Appa Rao & Kondal 153 Reddy 12. On Dantewada Guerilla Attack 158 13. Interview to The Hindu 164 14. Letter to Swami Agnivesh 210 15. On the Jnaneswari Express Tragedy 216 16. On Bhopal Verdict 220 17. A Last Note to a Neo-Colonialist 225 Maoists in India: Writings & Interviews Foreward 6 Foreward IN HONOR OF OUR FRIEND We, the friends of Cherukuri Rajkumar (Azad), present this bouquet of his writings and interviews collected from popular newspapers and websites, to all those who are interested to know the ideas of the Maoist politics in India in general and Azad’s articu- lation of the politics in particular. Azad has been our friend for more than thirty years and as much time, two-thirds of his short life of 56 years, he spent developing, exploring, elucidating and debating these ideas. A voracious reader and prolific writer that he was, the writings collected here might be less than a tenth of his literary output. Much of his writ- ing was anonymous or under different pseudonyms in clandestine journals and documents and we leave it for future research to prepare his collected works, most probably with active support from the Party for which he was a spokesperson, a member of Cen- tral Committee and Politburo at the time of his brutal killing by police on July 2, 2010 in Adilabad forests of Andhra Pradesh. His death brought back his memories to us and we, from different walks of life, began cherishing his recollections more after his death. Indeed he began living amongst us more vigorously after his death, justifying the saying “a tyrant dies and his rule is over, a martyr dies and his rule begins”. Azad’s writings, statements, opinions, letters and his expositions of the revolutionary movement that is spreading leaps and bounds are reverberating in the present more 7 Maoists in India: Writings & Interviews vociferously. During the last three months after his cold-blooded killing by the police, his name is more visible in the news than when he was alive. We, as friends of Azad, thought it was our duty to propagate his ideas, his personality, and his thoughts and writings. Even as we understand that his Party would be in a better position to under- take that effort, we also wanted to add our bit to the task. Within one week of his death, we brought out a small collection of obituary articles written by prominent journalists and civil libertarians in Telugu. We were overwhelmed by the international response against his killing and brought out another slim volume of statements of solidarity and condo- lence issued by various parties, organizations and individuals across the world. This book, in that process, is our third attempt to propagate Azad’s ideas. All these articles and inter- views appeared in popular newspapers like Economic and Political Weekly, The Hindu, Mainstream, People’s March, etc. and available on the net. We gratefully acknowledge all the publications and websites. We distributed our earlier publications to all those people we knew but we thought this book should be available to all those whom we may not know, but really want the book. We would like to remind all those that given the kind of repression prevailing in India now it would be difficult to iden- tify ourselves. Hence we requested revolutionary writer Varavara Rao, who was an emissary of the CPI(Maoist) when the latter had peace negotiations 8 Foreward with the government of Andhra Pradesh, to lend his address to the book. We are thankful to him for accepting our request. Our friend Azad lives here in his words. In his eloquence. In his turn of phrase. In his penchant for truth. In his meticulous approach. In his inci- sive analysis. In his steadfast practice. In his supreme sacrifice. Azad continues to inspire. Friends of Azad September 20, 2010 9 Maoists in India: Writings & Interviews A Brief Biography 10 A Brief Biography Cherukuri Rajkumar (Comrade Azad) was born into a middle class family of Krishna district in Andhra Pradesh on 18 May 1954. His father Cherukuri Lakshmaiah Chowdary, an ex-service man, and mother Karuna shifted to Hyderabad to run a small restaurant and thus he had his primary education in Hyderabad and secondary education at Sainik School, Korukonda in Vizianagaram district. He did his graduation in chemical engineering at Regional Engineering College (REC), Warangal and post-graduation in ore dressing at Andhra Univer- sity, Visakhapatnam. Students of REC were in the forefront of form- ing Andhra Pradesh Radical Students Union (RSU) in October 1974, and Rajkumar was part of that group. He was arrested in 1975 under Emergency and spent a few months in jail. Radical Students Union was revived after Emergency and Rajkumar became its state president in 1978. He was re-elected twice to that position. In 1980 he chose to become a full-timer and began his underground life and there was no looking back. For the next 30 years, he worked in different areas like Karnataka, Tamilnadu, Kerala, Maharash- tra, Gujarat and Dandakaranya, giving theoretical, political and organizational inputs to struggles in all these places. He guided party units and commit- tees in all these states as well as the Southwestern Regional Bureau. Though he was part of a collec- tive decision-making body of the Party, his personal contribution in terms of vision, expertise in several 11 Maoists in India: Writings & Interviews fields and a sharp insight into different developing themes helped the movement quite a bit. He was a voracious reader and a prolific writer. Given the nature of his clandestine activity he wrote under different pseudonyms, and more often credited his writings to collective, but one could easily identify his style in numerous writings in Voice of the Van- guard, People’s March, People’s Truth, Maoist Informa- tion Bulletin, etc. In 2002, the government of Andhra Pradesh initiated talks with the then CPI(ML) Peoples War to bring about peace. It was Rajkumar who guided the efforts of peace negotiations on the part of the revolutionary Party and he wrote a number of state- ments, gave interviews to newspapers clarifying the Party’s position. In 2004, the talks moved a little forward between the representatives of CPI(Mao- ist) and CPI(ML) Janasakthi on one hand and the representatives of the government on the other. Between May 2004 and January 2005, it was again Rajkumar who guided and prepared a lot of state- ments and documents for the talks. Again begin- ning with 2007 when the Prime Minister described the Maoist movement as the biggest internal threat, Rajkumar consistently exposed the real intentions of mining mafia behind the onslaught, including Operation Green Hunt. Through various writings and interviews in several media, he elaborated on the Party’s positions on various issues including the peace process. A number of statements given by 12 A Brief Biography him, an 18-page interview along with audio sent to press in October 2009, his 12,262-word inter- view given to The Hindu in April 2010 and his letter of May 31, 2010 in response to Home Minister P Chidambaram’s letter of May 10 to Swami Agnivesh are crystal clear expositions of the position of the CPI(Maoist). 13 Maoists in India: Writings & Interviews Azad’s Writings & Interviews 14 Maoists in India MAOISTS IN INDIA A Rejoinder Published in Economic and Political Weekly 14 October 2006 The special issue (July 22, 2006) devoted to the Maoists in India reflects recognition of the grow- ing importance that the Maoist-led movement plays in the polity and the economy of the country. However, what was disconcerting was that an issue devoted to the Maoists did not have a single arti- cle by the Maoists themselves. The majority of the essays appeared preoccupied with the question of violence and not with the horrifying conditions of the masses and finding a way out for them. Though the EPW has chosen a wide spectrum of views, it would have been more constructive if the articles were linked more to the question of the alleviation of the horrifying conditions of the masses, partic- ularly in this period of globalization when the sit- uation has worsened. The issue of violence should have been seen in this context. In this reply, we will first very briefly present our understanding of the Indian social order, then discuss our own goals as the framework from which to view the points made by the writers, and subsequently take up some of the main issues on which we differ. We shall assign importance to those arguments that are really dis- turbing the well-wishers of the movement.
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