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On December 1, 1999
three Central Committee members (Com. Shyam, Com. Mahesh and Com. Murali) of
CPI(ML)[People’s War] were arrested at Bangalore by the AP Police, airlifted to
Hyderabad the same day, and after being tortured severely they were murdered on
the morning of the 2nd in the Koyyuru forest of Karimnagar district. With this
heinous murder of three leaders, people from all over India held big
demonstrations, and took up retaliatory actions, condemning this false
encounter.
Demonstrations
started On December 3rd in Jagitial where Com. Murali’s funeral march was held
with the participation of thousands of people. The fascist Chandrababu Naidu
government had put many hurdles to the people who were attending the funerals of
Com. Shyam and Com. Mahesh. The government stopped all buses to those districts.
The police also stopped all other private vehicles that were coming with people.
Several people who were coming in trucks were threatened and sent back. In this
way, the police put several obstacles for the people. Yet the people did not
turn back. Thousands of people attended the funeral marches.
After the funerals
were over, from December 8 to 14, a Protest Week was observed throughout AP. A
two-day bandh was observed on December 15 and 16. On the 15th several
revolutionary parties, mass organisations held a mammoth demonstration in
Hyderabad. The demonstration, starting from the old MLA quarters, going through
Basheer bagh, Khairatabad, ended at the Raj Bhavan. The police stopped the
demonstrators. The processionists said that they would peacefully give a
memorandum to the governor on the false encounter. But the police didn’t listen
to their words. So, the people broke the police cordon and marched ahead giving
slogans : ‘Chief Minister down, down !’, ‘End to state violence !’, ‘All
encounters are police murders!’, ‘Dismiss Chandrababu government!’, ‘Suspend DGP
Dora!’, ‘Police should be prosecuted for the murder!’
On December 16th, the
second day of bandh, people held a dharna infront of the secretariat at
Hyderabad, demanding a judicial enquiry on the encounter of comrades Shyam,
Mahesh and Murali. Although the police cordoned off the area, Varavara Rao,
Gaddar, Chandraiah (IFTU), Shyamala Rao, Vimala (VIRASAM), Raju (FDSU),
Laxminarasaiah (advocate), Vijayakumar (Janashakti) and Phani suddenly dashed to
the main gate of the secretariat shouting slogans. The police arrested all the
persons and sent them jail.
Enormous retaliatory
actions took place all over the country during this Protest Week with the
participation of people in large numbers. In the last week of December, 5000
people participated in a protest march in Guntur district though government had
promulgated prohibitory orders. The police destroyed a meeting condemning this
encounter in Dachepalli of Guntur district On January 11. Heavy police forces
were deployed in that town. The people who came to that meeting were severely
lathi charged and dispersed. The speakers Ratnamala, Varavara Rao who came to
address that meeting were arrested. The police followed Gaddar’s movements every
second.
Ratnamala, the
President of the AP Civil Liberties Committee demanded a judicial enquiry into
this encounter and demanded to punish the police officials responsible for the
murder. The CPI(ML) Janashakti, CPI(ML) Pratighatana, New Democracy, OPDR, PUDR
also demanded a judicial enquiry on this false encounter.
A relay fast
programme was taken up in Hyderabad from January 1, by the Struggle Committee
Against Fake Encounters, demanding the stopping of false encounters, and for a
judicial enquiry into the Koyyuru encounter. Mammoth processions were held all
over the country. On December 6th a big procession was held in Delhi demanding a
judicial enquiry and punishing the police officers responsible for the Koyyuru
encounter. In Calcutta a big procession was held on December 15.
On the same day,
several democratic and revolutionary organisations and persons took out a
procession in Patna. The participant organisations were : All India People’s
Resistance Forum (AIPRF), Jana Mukti Sangharsh Vahini, Sarvahara Chetana, CPI(ML)
Ekta Pahal, Nari Mukti Sangharsh Samithi, Democratic Students Union, Krantikari
Buddijivi Sangh, and the Jana Samvad. Democratic and progressive intellectuals,
such as Pradhan H Prasad, Preeti Sinha (Editor of Philhal), Bhupendra Kumar,
Mithilesh Kumar and several other progressive intellectuals participated in the
rally at Patna. They held a meeting near the All India Radio Station in Patna.
Several speakers asked the people to build powerful resistance movements and
demanded to punish the police officials who were responsible for the murder of
Coms. Shyam, Mahesh and Murali.
In the 2nd week of
December processions were held in Bombay and Chandrapur of Maharashtra. Public
meetings were held in Bombay and Surat on 22nd and 23rd respectively.
In Karnataka also big
processions were held before the chief minister’s house. The Karnataka Rytu
Coolie Sangha, the AIPRF, the AIRSF, the Revolutionary Youth Front and other
revolutionary and democratic organisations participated in this procession. They
demanded that action be taken on the Bangalore police who collaborated with the
AP police in murdering the three central committee members.
Along with these
protest demonstrations, people enthusiastically participated in a number of
actions against the state and ruling party leaders.
The militant actions
started on 3rd December night when a state RTC bus was burnt down near Indaram
village in Adilabad district. Starting with that incident, several government
offices, jeeps and other vehicles, court buildings, Central and state government
offices, guest houses, telephone exchanges, railway stations, rail tracks,
properties of ruling party leaders and landlords all over the country were
smashed. Several ruling party leaders and police officials were annihilated.
On December 5, a
police van was ambushed by the People’s War guerrillas near Khanapur town of
Adilabad district. The van split into pieces in which one sub- inspector along
with three police were wiped out and one circle inspector and six police were
seriously injured. In the second week of December two police personnel were
annihilated in Eturunagaram and one head constable in Warangal town. Several
places of South Telangana, Nallamala forest region, Rayalaseema, East region
virtually burnt with people’s anger.
On December 16,
People’s War guerrillas annihilated the transport minister of Madhya Pradesh,
Likharam Kavre, by attacking his house in Sonapuri village of Balaghat district.
On the same day a
rail track was smashed by People’s War guerrillas near Tarena railway station in
Bihar. Rail traffic was disrupted in the Patna-Gaya section. On December 18
another rail track was blasted in Palamau district of Bihar. The same day people
blasted the Kajra-Navadhi railway station in Bihar.
The people’s anger
was so intense that all the ruling party leaders and government officials of AP
immediately ran to Hyderabad from the small towns for their safety. Even the
gram sarpanches of the ruling party ran to Hyderabad in fear. With fear for
their lives, 700 VIPs in AP got police protection and the police, fearing for
their lives confined their movements to their station buildings. The central and
state governments were terrified with this escalation of people’s actions. In
total, people as well as the guerrillas conducted nearly 150 militant actions in
response to their beloved leaders’ murder. Below, we give some of the militant
actions, date-wise, that took place in the fortnight after the fake encounter :
December 3 : A
state RTC bus was burnt down near Indaram village of Adilabad district.
December 5 : 1) A
police jeep was ambushed by landmines by the People’s War guerrillas between
Khanapur and Tarlapadu villages in Adilabad district in which one SI and 3
policemen were wiped out and one Circle Inspector and 8 other policemen were
seriously injured.
2) Two RTC buses were
burnt down between Khanapur and Pembi villages in Adilabad district.
3) The house of the
Single Window (cooperative society) president and Sarpanch of Lodpalli, Narsinga
Rao’s was blasted.
4) The house of the
ruling TDP leader of Penchikalpet, Srinivas, was blasted.
5) In Jatarla village
of Bazarhatnoor mandal (Adilabad district), the house of the former minister and
the ruling Telugu Desam leader’s house, was blasted. One car and tractor were
burnt down.
6) One RTC bus was
burnt near Matchupet (Karminagar district) village.
7) In the mandal
centre of Mallapur (Karimnagar district) former sarpanch and landlord, Kolluri
Rangarao’s house was blownup.
8) Former sarpanch of
Donur (Dharmapuri mandal of Karimnagar district), Kondapalli Vasudeva Rao was
annihilated.
December 6 : 1)
The people lured the police by decorating with red banners the Mangapet cross
road in the Eturunagaram area (Warangal district). When the police came to
remove the banners, the People’s War guerrillas fired, in which two policemen
were wiped out, and one ASI and two other policemen escaped with serious
injuries. The guerrillas seized five weapons from the police including one
AK-47, 3 SLRs and one other rifle.
2) The ruling TDP
leader of Cheryal mandal and DCCB director, Narsimha Reddy’s house and other
instruments, were burnt in Vechareni village (Warangal district).
3) At
Cheryal-Siddipet highway one oil tanker and two state government buses were
burnt.
4) One railway track
was blasted near Vempalli railway station in Adilabad district.
5) In Jaina village
of Dharmapuri mandal and Mangela village of Sarangapur mandals (Karimnagar
district) marphones (mostly used by officials) were destroyed by people.
December 7 : 1)
One forest guest house was blasted in Jam village of Sarangapur mandal
2) One telephone
exchange, plant room and generator were burnt down in Mamidalapalli of
Veenavanka mandal (Karimnagar district).
3) One state RTC bus
was burnt and another destroyed near Gannaram village of Ditchpalli mandal (Nizamabad
district).
4) Two court
buildings were blasted in Kollapur and Veepanagandla (Mahaboobnagar district)
towns.
5) One bus was burnt
down near Vurugonda village.
6) The MRO office at
Addateegala (East Godavari district) was blasted.
7) The forest office
building at Velugodu town (Kurnool district) was blasted.
December 8 : 1)
One state RTC bus was burnt down near Gudihatnoor village of Adilabad district.
2) The district BJP
leader and local ZPTC leader Devu Sambaiah’s house was burnt in Koppula village
of Warangal district.
3) The ruling TDP
leader of Vardhannapet and chairman of the Rayaparti Single Window, Jinugu
Animireddy’s house (Warangal district) was blasted.
4) The marphone at
Kotularam village in Nalgonda district was destroyed.
December 9 : 1)
Former Sarpanch of Ankusapur village (Kataram mandal, Warangal district),
Mahaboob Baig’s house, was burnt.
2) The MRO office at
the district headquarters of Mahaboobnagar was blasted.
3) The MRO and MDO
offices at the mandal centre of Atmakur (Anantapur district) were burnt down.
4) A state RTC bus
was burnt in Kambadur village (Anantapur district).
5) An AP state RTC
bus was burnt at Nagalapura area of Tumkur district (Karnataka state).
December 10 : 1)
The TDP mandal president of Bikkanur, Jukanti Mohan Reddy’s house, was blasted
in Rajampet village of Nizamabad district.
2) One van belonging
to the Girijan Corporation was burnt at Ajamnagar of Bhoopalapalli mandal of
Warangal district.
3) The ruling TDP
leader and vice-Chairman of the Zilla parishad, Narra Keshav Reddy’s house, was
blasted in Bandharam village of Medak district.
4) A Single Window
Office at Kolluru village of Aler mandal (Warangal district) was burnt down and
records were destroyed.
5) The chairman of
the Kalwakurthi Agricultural Market (Mahaboobnagar district), Sampathi Parvata
Reddy’s house, tractor and scooter were burnt down.
December 11 : 1)
A special party armed reserve head constable was shot in Hanamkonda town by
urban guerrillas of the People’s War in Warangal district. The head constable
escaped with serious injuries.
2) A water supply
office was blasted in Parkal town of Warangal district.
3) A culvert at
Warangal-Khammam road near Illenda village of Vardhannapet mandal (Warangal
district) was blasted.
December 13 : 1)
The house of a ZPTC member, Ashok’s house, was burnt in Ponna village of
Mutharam mandal of Karimnagar district.
2) The Sarpanch of
Adivi Srirampur (Karimnagar district), Chota Narayana’s house was burnt .
3) Two co-axial
repeaters belonging to the telecom department were blasted between
Gannaram-Chandrayanpalli villages in Nizamabad district.
4) A State RTC bus
was burnt near Gopalapur of Chityal mandal (Warangal district).
5) Nalgonda district
Congress president and chairman of the district cooperative bank, Mereddy Jaipal
Reddy’s house was blasted.
6) Another director
of the DCCB, Mereddy Jaipal Reddy’s house in Parvedula village (Nalgonda
district) was burnt down.
7) A cinema talkies
cabin of the TDP leader, Venna Sambasiva Reddy was burnt in Ganapavaram of
Guntur district.
8) A telephone
exchange at Nutimadugu village of Kambadur mandal (Anantapur district) was burnt
down.
December 14 : 1)
A railway track between Nadikudi and Pondugala railway stations (Guntur
district) was blasted.
2) The mandal
parishad office at Kanaganapalli (Anantapur district) was burnt.
3) Former Tungur (Sarangapur
mandal of Karimanagar district) president and present MPTC member Rajagopala
Rao’s house, his Suzuki motor cycle, VCP, TV, telephone and other articles were
burnt down.
4) A marphone at
Tirmalagiri village of Nalgonda district was destroyed.
December 15 : 1)
The MLA of Kamalapur (Karimnagar district), Muddasani Damodar Reddy’s house was
blasted.
2) Former president
of the Rechapalli (Jammikunta mandal of Karimnagar district), Ramachandra
Reddy’s house was blasted.
3) The TDP leader and
president of the Veenvanka mandal praja parishad, Balakishan Rao’s house was
blasted in Challur village (Karimnagar district).
4) The landlord of
Tadicherla (Malhar mandal of Karimnagar district), Srinivasa Rao’s house was
burnt.
5) The landlord of
Marripalli (Kataram mandal of Karimnagar district), Pratap Rao’s house and
tractor were burnt down.
6) A culvert at
Chandrayanapalli road (Ditchpalli mandal of Nizamabad district) was blasted.
7) The Market
chairman of Kamareddy, Ponnala Laxma Reddy’s house was blasted in Akkapur
village (Macharam mandal of Nizamabad district).
8) The TDP office at
Choutpalli (Kammarpalli mandal) was blasted.
9) The office and
furniture of the Talmadala railway station in Nizamabad-Secunderabad section
were burnt down.
10) The telephone
exchanges at Sardana and Pathur villages of Medak district were burnt down.
11) The forest
department office at Burgupalli was burnt.
December 16 : 1)
The Uppalvai railway station (Nizamabad district) was blasted.
2) The mandal
president of Basheerabad-Kammarpalli (Nizamabad district), Gopikishan’s house
was blasted.
3) The marphones at
Tekriyal of Kamareddy mandal and Kalojivada village of Tadvai mandal (Nizamabad
district) were destroyed.
4) At Mallapur mandal
(Karimnagar district) landlord Chandrasekhar Rao’s house was blasted out.
5) The marphone at
Bontanapalli village and a jeep at Regunta village of Veenavanka mandal (Karimnagar
district) were burnt down.
6) A C-dot telephone
exchange at Shankarpatnam mandal centre was burnt down.
7) A culvert at
Bandalaragu near Veldurti (Guntur district) was blasted.
8) A guest house at
Penakacharla dam in Anantapur district was blasted.
9) The Amaravati
Express train was stopped at Chalama railway station (Kurnool district),
passengers were asked to get down and its 15 bogies were burnt down and
destroyed. Afterwards the People’s War guerrillas addressed the 600 passengers.
They explained to the people the circumstances leading to the train’s stoppage
and told them about the fascist atrocities of the state and central governments
in which three people’s leaders were brutally murdered. After addressing the
people, the guerrillas and people destroyed the railway station also.
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