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From the moment the sad news of the cold-blooded murder of the leaders of
CPI(ML)[People's War] broke out, the Party units all over the country, the armed
guerrilla squads, the various mass organisations and the revolutionary masses
began to come out in their thousands condemning the murders and paying their red
homage to the martyrs. The great grief that filled the hearts of millions of
people soon turned into burning hatred against the murderers and the
exploitative system they represent and for whose defence they had committed
these brutal murders.
Starting with the mass turn-out at the funeral of comrade Seelam Naresh (Murali)
on December 3 in his native town of Jagtiyal, demonstrations, torch-light
processions, meeting~ dharnas and rasta and rail rooks spread to entire AP and
several parts of the country. On December 5 and 10, thousands of people attended
the funeral of Comrade Nalla Adi Reddy(Shyam) and Yerramreddy Santosh
Reddy(Mahesh) in their respective native villages of Kothagattu in Karimnagar
and Kadivendi in Warangal districts in spite of the all-out attempts by the
state to stop the people from reaching the funeral. All buses were withdrawn
from the surrounding areas under the instructions of the police; lorries and
other vehicles carrying people were stopped and the people who were on the way
to pay their last farewell to the departed leaders were forcibly sent back. Yet,
braving the police threats and intimidation, people converged in thousands into
the two villages from all over the state dodging the police and coming on foot
after entering the districts of Karimnagar and Warangal. On December15 and 16, a
48-hour bandh (general strike) was observed all over North Telangana and most
other parts of AP following a week-long protest from December 8-14. 4n the last
week of December, over 5000 people held a rally in Guntur district defying the
prohibitory orders imposed by the government. A massive meeting in Dachepalli in
Guntur district on 11th. January organised by the United Struggle Committee
Against Fake Encounters (USCAFE) was disrupted. Huge police force was deployed
in the area and people coming to the meeting place were beaten up and were
dispersed forcibly. Several people including revolutionary writer Varvara Rao
and the AP Civil liberties president Ratnamala who went to Dachepalli to address
the public meeting were arrested.
The USC AFE also began a relay hunger strike from January 1st. in Hyderabad
demanding a halt to fake encounters and a high-level judiciary enquiry into the
murder of Comrades Shyam, Mahesh and Murali.
The mass demonstrations, meetings and other forms of protest also spread to
several states in India.
A rally was held in the capital city of Delhi on December 6 demanding a
high-level judicial enquiry into the police murders and punishment to the guilty
officials. In Calcutta, a rally was taken out on December 15.
On the same day, in Bihar, several democratic and revolutionary organisations
and individuals took out a rally in the capital Patna. All India People's
Resistance Forum(AIPRF), Janamukti Sangharsh Vanini, Sarvahara Chetana,
CPI(ML)(Ekata Pahalu), Nari Mukti Sangharsh Samiti, Democratic Students Union,
Krantikari Budhijeevi Sangh, Jan Sanwad and some other organisations
participated. Several prominent writers and intellectuals too participated in
the rally such as Pradhan H Prasad, Preethi Sinha (editor, Filhaal), Bhupendra
Kumar, Mithilesh Kumar and others. A public meeting was held near All India
Radio where the speakers called upon the people to build a strong resistance
movement against state terror and demanded the trial of the police officials
involved in the assassination of Comrades Shyam, Mahesh and Murali.
In Maharashtra rallies were taken out in Mumbai and Chandrapur in the second
week of December and public meetings were held in Mumbai and Surat in Gujarat on
22 and 23 respectively.
In the South in Karnataka, a big rally was taken out to the Chief Minister's
house on December 20 in which several democratic and revolutionary organisations
such as the Karnataka Rytu Cooly Sangha(KRCS). MPRF, All India Revolutionary
Student Federation (AIRSF), Revolutionary Youth Front(RYF). and others
participated. The demonstrators demanded action against the Karnataka police too
for their complicity in the murder of the three leaders by the AP police.
Besides mass protests, armed retaliatory actions rocked AP, Dandakaranya, Bihar
and other parts of India for an entire month following the brutal murders and
reports are still continuing to pour in at the time of writing.
The armed retaliation which began as soon as the news broke out on the evening
of December 2 with the burning of a state road transport bus on the same night
near Indaram village in Adilabad district, soon spread to several states in
India: government buses, jeeps, and other vehicles, court buildings, central and
state government offices, guest houses, telephone exchanges, railway stations
and railway tracks, and other government property; houses and property of the
ruling class politicians and state officials etc., were reduced to ashes in the
fire of people's ire. Several ruling class representatives and police
officials were annihilated Land-mines blew up a vehicle carrying a police party
near Khanapur town in Adilabad district on December 5, wiping out a
sub-inspector of police and three other policemen and severely injuring a Circle
Inspector and six policemen.
Two policemen were killed in Eturnagaram in Warangal district and a Head
Constable was annihilated in the heart of Warangal city by a special squad of
CPL(ML)[PW] both in the second week of December.
On December 19, a Head Constable was killed and several policemen were injured
seriously in a land-mine blast in Adilabad district.
From the flaming fields of North Telangana across South Telangana to the forests
of Nallamalla; and from Rayalaseema to East region in coastal Andhra, the flames
of people's fury raged for a whole month crying for revenge for the murder of
their beloved leaders.
In neighbouring Dandaaaanya, armed guerillas raided the house of the Transport
Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Likhiram Kanware, in Sonpuri village in Balaghat
district and annihilated him on December 16.
Further north, in Bihar, railway tracks were blown up on the same day in Taregna
near Jehanabad which brought the train movement on the Patna-Gaya line to a
stand-still. On December 18, a railway track was blown up in Palamau district.
The Kajra-Nawadih railway station was blown up on the same day which disrupted
the train services for over ten hours. Retaliatory actions are continuing at the
time of writing.
So scared were the representatives of the exploiting ruling classes by the
rising tide of people's fury and retaliation by the armed guerrillas that
virtually all the politicians, bureaucrats and other representatives scurried
out of the villages and smaller towns in North Telangana and other parts of
intense class struggle into the safety of Hyderabad. None of the ruling Telugu
Desam politicians, not even the village sarpanches, ventured out into the
districts and pleaded for police protection even in the capital city. Fearing
reprisals, about 700 VIPs in AP are being provided protection. In all, over 150
major retaliatory actions were conducted in the month following the martyrdom of
the three comrades.
The mass rallies, demonstrations and various forms of people's protest and the
firm determination on the part of the revolutionary forces to avenge the death
of their beloved leaders has struck panick among the ruling classes. Their fond
dream of crushing the ongoing people's war in the country and to suppress the
people's movements had turned out to be a virtual nightmare. The dead became the
living. The massive protests showed that comrades Shyam, Mahesh and Murali whom
the Indian ruling classes devoured in the most monstrous way have become
reincarnated among the masses driving them forward with irrestible force to
devour the exploiting classes. Inspired by the ideals which these comrades stood
for, the revolutionary masses are bound to advance even more firmly in their
historic mission to wipe out feudalism, imperialism and comprador bureaucrat
capitalism from the Indian soil.
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