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ARMED ACTIONS BY CPI(M-L) [PW]
People's War guerrilla squads tried to explode vehicles through mines at
eight places in Plamau, Garwha, Rohtas, Patna and Bhojpur while an attack was
carried out on the government bodyguard of a Bahujan Samaj Party candidate in
Patna. In all these actions 23 enemy persons were killed and 35 injured, which
included nine CRPF personnel, 5 BMP, 2 district policemen, one magistrate, one
election officer, one bodyguard of a B SP candidate, two watchman and two
civilians killed. An important comrade was also martyred in one of the above
incidents.
POLICE STATION CHAINPUR, PALAMAU DISTRICT
A CRPF vehicle (tractor) was destroyed near Kanchan Sarhua village in Chainpur
PS. The road bridge near the village was mined during the night and PW squad
members were waiting for the enemy vehicles to cross the bridge. In the morning
three vehicles arrived at the bridge and stopped there. The tractor which was
carrying CRPF personnel was the third among the three. Some CRPF personnel
alighted from the tractor and inspected the bridge and found nothing unusual.
Then they signaled the vehicles to cross the bridge. First two vehicles crossed
the bridge but when the tractor carrying CRPF contingent came over the bridge
the mines were let off and their vehicle exploded and went up in the air. Just
at that point of time another CRPF vehicle reached on the scene and the CRPF men
on it started firing their rifles and two-inch mortar shells. PW guerrillas
safely retreated after the action.
In the incident nine CRPF men were killed. One watchman also got killed during
the action.
PANKI P.S., PALAMAU
On the day of election a PW squad destroyed a 407 Maxi at Nawagadh village near
Panki. In this action one BMP man, two district policemen, a magistrate and a
watchman were killed while 8 men were injured.
VILLAGE TEORA, ROHTAS
On 17 Sept 1999 a mine was laid on a bridge near village Toora when a police bus
came the mine was exploded. The mine went off when the bus was a few feet away.
Only one BMP man was killed in the explosion and 10 injured.
While in the ensuing encounter one more BMP man fell down dead. Guerrilla forces
did not suffer any losses.
DHANRUA PS, PATNA
On the day of elections on Sept.18 a mine was exploded under a 407 Maxi which
was full of police and election officials. The mine damaged the rear of the
vehicle. Immediately after the blast guerrillas engaged policemen in an
encounter in which 2 BMP men and one election officials lost their lives.
BIKRAM PS, PATNA
During the second round of elections in Bihar on Sept. 22, a bodyguard of a BSP
candidate was killed in a scuffle with the squad. One of the squad members was
also martyred in that scuffle. When other members of the squad were carrying the
body of the martyred comrade to a safe place the police arrived and attacked the
squad but the squad members countered the police forces and safely carried away
the dead body of their martyred comrade.
Later the dead body of the martyred comrade Bhola wastaken to his village
Sarvanichak. People of the village, both men and women, assembled at the time of
his last rites in the middle of night. He was given a revolutionary salute by
his comrades for this last time.
Beside the above mentioned successful operations some other landmine operations
were carried out which did not bring the desired results. In three of the
operations two election officials died (including one driver) while four were
injured. Three operations were either could not be carried out on time or were
thwarted by the police alertness. In another operation one of the squads
followed a fifty-member para-military and police force contingent and forced
them to abandon the election booth and took refuge in Chatarpur police station.
All these actions were carried by the PW to resist the suppression campaign of
the Bihar state, which it had unleashed to thwart the poll-boycott call of the
Naxalites.
ARMED ACTIONS BY THE MCC
Another revolutionary organisation MCC also carried out armed actions during
elections to convert elections into a “festival of arms collecting." It
conducted a number of armed operations in which 20 persons were killed including
a Magistrate, a CRPF man and a number of poll officials. 19 persons got injured
in all those operations. Out of a total of eight operations three were carried
out in Hazaribagh, three in Palamau, one in Chatra and one in Januic.
CHAINPUR PS, PALAMAU
Near Chonga-Bardi village a landmine was exploded killing a magistrate and five
policemen on Sept.18. The toll included three GRP men and one CRPF personnel who
were washed away in the river alongwith their weapons.
BALUMATH PS, PALAMAU
A landmine was exploded under a police jeep near Jhawa village in which two
polls officials were killed. Three poll officials were seriously injured. The
incident occurred on the first phase polling-day.
HARIHARGANJ PS PALAMAU
An MCC squad attacked a police petrol party. The police party surrendered and 8
rifles and a pistol was recovered from them.
CHATRA
In village Simriya MCC squad members blasted a landmine under a bus which was
carrying police personnel. The police escaped unhurt but an apprentice got
killed in the action.
VISHNU GARH PS, HAZARIBAG
In a landmine relate explosion two persons were killed and six injured. The
incident occurred on 18th September.
A JUNGLE IN JAMUIE DISTRICT.
In Jamuic district a mine was exploded in a jungle killing three persons and a
vehicle was destroyed.
BA RHI PS, HAZARIBAG
In a landmine explosion a vehicle was destroyed killing 7 persons and injuring
three others. One more attack from Hazaribag district was reported in which7
police personnel were injured.
Reacting to the above mentioned armed operations of the PW and the MCC Mr.
Paryiar the home-secretary of the Bihar state conceded that the administration
has failed in dealing with the terrorists in the remote areas of Bihar inspite
of all preparations. But the Chief Security official of the state contradicted
home-secretary's statement by saying that the violence was not too much and it
was a part of the ongoing struggle between the police and the terrorists. The
Chief Election Commissioner Mr. M.S. Gill related the violence with social and
ideological conditions of the state calling on the politicians to find a
solution towards these problems. Another Election Commissioner G.V.G.
Krishnamurthy had appealed the boycottist "extremist organisations" on 11 Sept.
that they should enter the mainstream politics as the slogan of poll-boycott is
useless as the people participate in elections. He said boycott is not a
solution of the problem.
ELECTIONS ARE A FARCE: PEOPLES WAR IS THE ONLY WAY!
On the other hand, the Secretary of the Bihar State Committee of CPI(M-L)[P.W]
Com. Shravan has circulated an open letter in which, while rejecting these
appeals he has stated that for building of a democratic, independent,
self-reliant and prosperous India the people should boycott the elections and
come forward to strengthen the ongoing protracted people's war to liberate India
from feudalism, comprador bureaucratic capitalism and imperialism. lie strongly
objected to G.V.G. Krishnamurthy's attempts to denigrade the Communist
Revolutionary organisations as "extremist organisations" and said that it was
illogical and wrong to label these organisations in this way. He said that the
Election Commission should remain neutral on the question of participation or
boycott in the elections. He said if one has a constitutional right to
participate in elections, one also has the democratic right to boycott the
elections and the state should stop repressing the boycottists and should call
back its paramilitary forces which it has deployed especially to suppress those
who do not believe in election politics. The PW Bihar State Secretary also
demanded that curbs on election-boycott political propaganda should be
withdrawn.
In a press release of the Bihar State Committee of CPI(M-L)[PW] the Secretary of
the committee exposed the election farce of the anti- people reactionary state
to legitimise imperialist and feudal exploitative system through "people's
Mandate.'.' He alleged that large scale bogus polling and other malpractices
done in elections in the name of caste and community; through promises of
building residential colonies and water and electricity facilities; through the
free flow of liquor, money and dhoti-sarees; and coercion; criminal acts and
threats make the elections a farce and more and more people are coming forward
to boycott this exercise of the reactionary rulers. He said that there was
election boycott in central and south Bihar in at least 100 booths ii Palamau
and dozens in other districts.
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