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On April 16, at 7-00
P.M., Vishakhapatnam City Committee Secretary, Comrade Madhu (Akella Bhaskar Rao),
was shot dead near Vishakha airport by the SIB (Special Intelligence Bureau)
police on the road itself. The police as usual concocted the story of an
encounter. Vishakhapatnam is a centre of the enemy forces to suppress the armed
agrarian movement led by the CPI (ML) [People’s War] in East division. The SIB
police spending vast sums of money for maintaining ex-militants as informers are
sending them to work inside the mass organisations with the aim of capturing the
organisers. Already many activists and leaders of the People’s War were killed
in fake encounters to make Hyderabad city a safe zone for the enemy. Recently
the police killed Comrade Praveen and Veeraswamy by arresting them at
Mantralayam. In view of Vishakha city getting the next prominence after
Hyderabad, and the tours of many ministers and high officials is going on there
and in addition the rural, agency area of North Andhra is unfavourable to the
enemy, they are paying special attention on suppressing the Vishakha city as
part of suppressing the movement in the East region.
Com. Bhaskar
Known as Comrade
Madhu, Deepak, Jaipal among the oppressed masses of Vishakha, Comrade Bhaskar
was born in a middle class Dalit family in Chirala town of Prakasam district.
From his very childhood, he experienced untouchability and caste discrimination.
He integrated with the revolutionary student movement with the firm conviction
that it was the only real path to liberate the toiling masses. He played a
prominent role to develop the student movement in the coastal region of AP by
participating actively in the RSU movement when he was studying at Nagarjuna
University. Known as ‘University Bhaskar’ to the general students itself, he
mingled with all the students and taught revolutionary politics easily. He
countered the pro-ruling class goonda students’ attacks on the Radical students
movement and strengthened RSU in the Nagarjuna University. He was elected as
state EC member of RSU and took up the responsibility of developing the student
movement in the South Coastal region. After completing M.A., he worked as a
lecturer in the Chirala region for some time. After that he joined the
journalism course in Andhra University and started to build RSU.He stayed at
Nagarjuna hostel in Vishakhapatnam and rectified the wrong trends which were
developing among the Dalit students and tried to mould them to participate in
the Radical Students movement. He built the RSU in Vishakhapatnam city as well
as in Rushikonda Engineering College. He participated and led the students in
the pro-reservation movement as well as bundhs which were going on at that time.
He became a professional revolutionary in 1990 and took up responsibility as the
student organiser of Vishakha city. He led the volunteers ensuring the
successful completion of the Rytu Coolie Sangam Conference at Warangal.
Unable to function
legally in view of the enemy’s serious following, he started UG life from
January 1991. He became a member of the Vishakha City Committee in July 1992. He
relentlessly tried to build the women students’ movement in Andhra University.
On the hostel issues, teaching problems and against student goondagiri, he
guided and led and built a strong women student movement in Andhra University.
He extensively organised dalit students on the demand of enlisting dalit
christians into the SC list and mobilised other sections of people in the city
for its support. He had taken the responsibilities of City Secretary at the
Vishakha city Party Conference held in the beginning of 1996. Afterwards he
studied the working class and trade union movement and taught revolutionary
politics to workers. He put enormous effort to strengthen women, literary, civil
liberties movements in Vishakha city.
Ever cheerful and
creating an enthusiastic atmosphere, he was a dear comrade to every one. Even
after the martyrdom of his life-partner Comrade Savithri last year, he continued
his work in a spirited manner. He was a good teacher who could teach very easily
for the cadre on any issue however complex it may be. He observed the changes
that were taking place in the dalit movement and was always eager to mould them
into the revolutionary movement. The martyrdom of Comrade Bhaskar who acquired
valuable experiences in his 15 years of revolutionary life is great loss to the
revolutionary movement particularly the movement in Vishakha. It is a loss that
cannot be easily filled up. People’s March pays its red homage to
this comrade and takes inspiration from his indefatigable energy, exemplary
courage and unceasing creativity that are to be imbibed by every revolutionary
intellectual.
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