The ongoing people’s
war in India witnessed further victories in the month of September 1999
particularly in AP and Bihar. Even as the ruling classes deployed a large number
of armed forces in the areas where People’s War has been advancing in order to
enact their election farce. The PW guerillas, with the support of the people,
stepped up their actions against the reactionaries and enemy’s armed forces
throughout the month of September. The following is a list of major actions
during September 1999.
* On September 1st
a Sub-inspector was killed and two policemen were seriously injured when
guerillas attacked them when they were moving on a motor byke near Jeddangi
village in East Godavari district.
* On 4 September,
Umesh Chandra, an Inspector-General of Police, notorious for his anti-people
activities and responsible for the killing of senior leaders and several
cadres of PW, was shot dead in broad day-light in the heart of the capital
city of AP, Hyderabad, by a special guerilla squad of the PW. Two of the IGP’s
gunmen too were annihilated. (See last isssue of People’s March)
* On September 5, a
special police constable was shot dead by PW guerillas in a busy market place
in Parkal town in Warangal district. The AK-47 rifle that he was carrying was
seized by the guerillas.
* On September 13,
PW guerillas conducted a raid on Papannapet police station in Medak district
bordering Nizamabad. Five police personnel including a head constable were
annihilated in the operation. Later, when the police personnel perched on top
of the PS building refused to surrender, the building was blown with dynamite.
Simulata-neously the guerillas also raided the residence of the sub-inspector
of police, seized his pistol and tied him up. 13 rifles were seized from the
police station which included 3 SLRs. There was also an exchange of fire with
the enemy reinforcements which reached the place within a short time. The
guerillas, however, retreated without any casualty.
* On September 15,
three days prior to the second phase of election in AP, PW guerillas
annihilated the sitting MLA of the ruling TDP and a nominee for the Sirpur
Assembly Constituency in Adilabad district, Purushottam Rao. The three gun men
who were accompanying the MLA were also shot dead and their arms seized by the
guerillas. Dressed in yellow uniform as TDP supporters, PW guerillas entered
the TDP office in Sirpur-Kagaznagar town where the MLA was holding a meeting
with his party activists. They shot the MLA and the three gun men who tried to
come to the latter’s rescue. The election to the Sirpur Assembly constituency
was put off due to the annihilation of the candidate.
* On September 20,
PW guerillas ambushed a police party which was combing the forest in Maha
Muttaram mandal in Karimnagar district. Four policemen including a
Sub-inspector were wiped out. The incident took place at about 2 o’Clock in
the afternoon near Dubbapadu village when guerillas triggered off a land mine
when the police party was crossing a culvert.
The special police
party consisting of 22 men, were travelling in a tractor when they stopped
near a culvert, divided themselves into three batches and began to cross the
culvert one after the other. The second batch consisting of the SI and three
other police men were hit by the landmine when they were crossing the culvert.
An exchange of fire took place between the guerillas and the remaining
policemen for about an hour. But the guerillas retreated safely without any
casualties.
* In another attack
in Boath area of Adilabad district, four rifles were seized in an attack on
the Railway Protection Force personnel. The guerillas stopped the train in
which the RPF personnel were travelling and seize the arms.
In the
above-mentioned incidents all of which had taken place in the month of
September, a total of 17 police personnel were annihilated along with a sitting
MLA of the ruling TDP. Atleast 20 rifles were seized from the enemy forces. This
created panic among the state police officials, the politicians belonging to the
various ruling class parties, and other reactionaries.
The series of
successful armed actions in AP had shattered the web of lies floated by the
state government and the top police officials that the People’s War was
finished, that a large section of the PW’s followers have surrendered and so on.
The police department is striving hard to protect themselves from the landmines
by importing ‘mine-proof’ vehicles from Israel at a huge cost.
But can these
mine-proof vehicles and sophisticated armoury save them from the people’s wrath
?
