Comrade Sreenu
Comrade Kusnapalli
Yellaiah (Sreenu, Surendar) was born in a poor worker’s family in the village of
Kasireddypalli of Bellampalli mandal of Adilabad district. When he was studying
in the 9th standard, he came into party contact and joined in the Radical Youth
League of the village. He was arrested in August, 1994 when he was putting up
posters in Bellampalli town. Though he knew the appointment of the organiser,
the next day, he didn’t reveal a single word to the police inspite of severe
torture.
As he completed the
10th standard and joined in the Intermediate, he took responsibilities for the
student organisation. As the enemy’s surveillance intensified, he became a full
time organiser in the party from March 1996 and built many village units in the
Bellampalli rural area. As repression became severe, he was shifted to the
Chennur and Mangi squads and worked there as a squad member upto October 1997.
After that he was made a member of the Mini Guerrilla Squad (MGS) of Madaram (Singareni
Area). He played an important role in annihilating the cruel Sirpur MLA, Palvai
Purushottam Rao and his body guards. In January 2000, he was promoted as central
organiser of the Bellampalli area with a 1+1 squad formation. He built many
party units amongst Bellampalli workers.
On April 17, Com.
Sreenu and his fellow comrade Kiran were in a shelter in Dugnepalli village of
Bellampalli rural area. On a tip off, the police surrounded the house and
blocked the house from outside by locking the outside latch. As there was no
other way to escape from the house, the two comrades decided to fight the enemy
upto the last breath. The two guerrillas challenged the police to open the doors
and fight straight if they had the guts. Though the enemy tried to lure them,
through a hand mike, saying that they would be given a good reward if they
surrendered, the comrades answered them with their weapons. The enemy didn’t
dare open the door of the house, but instead made a hole in the house wall and
filled the room with tear gas. The two comrades were martyred with the poisonous
gas. Even then the enemy feared to enter the room directly after their death.
They opened the door hurling grenades and with auto-fire.
Comrade Kiran
Comrade Rasakatla
Rajkumar (Kiran, Subhash) hails from the Budidhagadda basti (slum) of
Bellampalli town. He was a son of a poor worker. He came into PW party contact
when he was studying in the 10th and started working in the RSU. He participated
in many student struggles. After completing the 10th standard, because of his
father’s death, he joined his father’s job as a Singareni worker. Meanwhile, as
he got exposed to the enemy, he gave up his job and came as a full timer into
the party and was sent to a squad. In view of his low political consciousness,
he again returned to his house and joined his job. After some time he realised
his mistake and put a proposal to work as a full timer. The PW party asked him
to work in the Bellampalli town while living in his house. As he attended a camp
in the forest for a month, the enemy suspected him and raided his house
frequently. As repression increased he left his job and again came as a full
timer and was sent to a squad in January 1999 and became a Party Member. In
January 2000, he was sent as a squad member to the Mini Guerrilla Squad of
Bellampalli area in which Comrade Sreenu was the commander. On April 17, Com.
Kiran was martyred along with Com. Sreenu while fighting the enemy in Dugnepalli
village.
Comrade Sagar
Com. Nakka Posham (Sagar,
Mallesh) was born in a poor dalit family of Sivvaram village in Chennur area of
Adilabad district. He was inspired by his predecessors who had been working in
his village. He was in party contact since 1997. He was recruited as a full
timer and was sent to the Chennur squad in December 1998. He worked there for
six months and was transferred to the Indravelli Local Guerrilla Squad. In view
of the Singareni movement’s requirements, he was sent to the Indaram MGS in
November 1999. He never backtracked although he encountered several police
firings. He was always very close to the people and patiently understood their
problems. He also attended several camps as part of his protection duties. On
17th June, 2000 when Com. Sagar and Com. Jaya were taking shelter in Ramaraopet
village, on a tip off, 100 police of Godavarikhani and Jaipur, surrounded the
house and indiscriminately fired with auto weapons. The two comrades fought the
enemy until their last breath and were martyred in the battle.
Comrade Jaya
Com. Velpula Bhagya (Jaya,
Swarna) was born in a poor worker’s family in Chittapur village of Nennela
mandal in Adilabad district. She was the only daughter of her parents. Her
father was a worker in the RK-5 coal mines. While studying in the 5th standard,
she was forcibly married to a person. From childhood itself Com. Bhagya never
tolerated atrocities on dalit families and oppression on them. She learnt
revolutionary politics through contact with the Singareni Belt Committee of the
PW. She had a burning class hatred against the ruling classes. As she was vexed
with her married life, she discarded her family relations and joined the party.
She was sent to the Chennur squad in September 1998 as a squad member.
She wrote many poems
on martyrs. She enthused the people with revolutionary zeal by singing
revolutionary songs. She encountered several police firings. She escaped in the
firing at Kondampet in October, 1999. She was sent as a member of the Bhimaram
LGS in December 1999. She toured several villages as a woman organiser and
became one with the sorrows of the village women folk. She aroused them with
revolutionary politics. She even worked as a squad doctor and served the village
poor people. She fiercely resisted the enemy in the December 1999 firing at Loha
area. She didn’t backtrack though the LGS commander degenerated and left the
squad.
She married on 27th
May to a co-revolutionary. She was sent as a member of the Indaram MGS after her
marriage. She was martyred fighting the enemy upto her last breath along with
Com. Sagar in Ramaraopet village on 17th June. Com. Jaya’s martyrdom is a great
loss to the women’s movement in the Singareni area. She is the first women
martyr in the Singareni workers’ movement.
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Besides these
comrades of Singareni, three comrades were martyred in Karimnagar district. Com.
Sridhar (Madde Prashant) joined the party in July 1998 after being in contact
since two years. He was a mass leader in his village and was elected secretary
of the Area Revolutionary Peasant Organisation, at a Conference held in October,
1998. In March, ’99 he joined the squad. In December ’99 he became a member of
an SGS and participated in the raid on the Asarelli police station and in the
annihilation of police informer Thota Mogili (brother-in-law of Jadala Nagaraju,
who covertly killed SZC member Com. Vijay). He was martyred in June, on a tip
off to the police, while taking shelter in a house in Kothapalli village.
The fascist hoodlum,
Nagaraju, brutally killed two sympathisers — Coms. Chandraiah and Janardhan — in
retaliation for the annihilation of his brother-in-law.
* Singareni is the working-class coal miners belt of North Telangana
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