This time the campaign for March 8 was widespread, starting 20 days before the holding of the big public meeting. Com. Jilani explained, "the Khammam District Committee of the CPI(ML)(PW) had stated not to celebrate March 8 as a routine, but that a widespread campaign should be taken for a month or two, raising women’s concrete problems and linking it to the question of patriarchy and women’s liberation".

So the first round of the campaign was taken in the first week of January. The three mandal areas of Eturnagaram, Tadvai and Govindraopet were covered in the campaign. The first round comprised a poster campaign stressing women’s problems. In this tribal belt it is common for men to use women, get them pregnant and then not marry them. During this first phase of the campaign the Mahilla dalam took a wide education campaign. In the second campaign that began 20 days before March 8, it was shown how adivasi (tribal) culture strengthens patriarchy within their society. Three days before the meeting, pamphlets were distributed in the entire area; and the night before the programme, banners were put up in at least 30 villages.

At the meeting were also 18 members of the PGA. These included the local Tupakulllaguddam LGS (local guerrilla squad), the Mahilla Dalam, and the district JNM (cultural squad). Sentry duties, during the entire duration of the meeting was maintained by the by the male squad members and the militia.

After a procession in the area and slogan shouting against patriarchy, the VMS (women’s organization) flag was hoisted by the Mahilla squad deputy commander, com. Swaroopa. The flag has the rising sun behind hills in the background, and in the foreground are two mahilla fists that have broken a chain.

Com. Swaroopa introduced March 8 to the audience. This was then followed by a song written by com. Sagar, commander of the JNM squad and presented by the group. The cultural squad comprised the young Sandhya (barely 14 years), whose boldness and self-confidence, yet child-like innocence, was an example of the new woman being created in the PW guerrilla zone of North Telengana. The lengthy song spoke of a women’s life from birth to death and how she has to face oppression and varied forms of patriarchy throughout.

Then Com. Jelani spoke. She outlined how patriarchy has existed throughout the ages, from slavery till now. She exposed how patriarchy is oppressing women and the role of the state in perpetuating patriarchy. She further showed how communism alone could free women from bondage. She exposed the extensive government (Naidu’s) reforms as a big hoax, merely brought to wean away women from the revolutionary movement. The state itself, she said, was responsible for the butchery of a large number of mahilla comrades. She also explained the impact of imperialist culture on tribals in this age of globalisation.

Next, the commander of the local LGS, and himself a tribal of the village Tupakullaguddam, Com. Ravi, spoke. He too exposed Naidu’s reforms for women, which had reached all villages of the area. He then went on to outline concrete incidents of patriarchal oppression of women in the family and by the state. He also condemned state repression on women.

Finally, the secretary of the Eturnagaram Area Committee, com. Mahesh, addressed the meeting. He summed up the issue of patriarchy, explained the introduction of POTO, and set forth a programme for the women’s organizations to take up at the village level. He explained the various manifestation of patriarchial oppression, and how this affected the growth and development of women. He expressed the necessity to resist and fight all forms of patriarchy at the village-level. and in this struggle, he appealed to the men-folk to also stand shoulder to shoulder with the women. He called upon the women to participate in the revolution and join the PGA and Party in large numbers.

The meeting ended after a one-hour cultural programme by the JNM. It concluded with a song on women martyrs.