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On 20th April at
about 8.30 two comrades from the city of Hyderabad, Mahendar and Sridhar, were
shot dead after having been arrested just half an hour earlier on the outskirts
of Hyderabad city. Com. Mahendar was the secretary of the city committee and
Com. Sridhar was a trade union organizer.
Com. Mahendar alias
Nomula Ramana Reddy came in touch with revolutionary politics around 1990 while
studying in Hyderabad. He became a PR in 1992, was arrested in ’94 and spent a
year-and-a-half in jail. He was released in ’95 and became an Area committee
member. In ’96, he became the commander of Rachakonda squad in Nalgonda
district. He was elected to the DC in 1998 and later shifted to Hyderabad as the
city secretary in August 2000 due to the needs of the city movement. He was just
31 years when he achieved martyrdom.
Com. Mahendar was a
revolutionary of the younger generation i.e. of the 1990s. His revolutionary
life, though short, has several inspiring things for the revolutionaries. He
displayed a strong will and character and left an imprint wherever he
was—whether in jail, in the guerrilla squad, or in the city. He did not reveal a
single thing when he was arrested in 1994 despite severe torture.In the jail, he
participated actively in the struggles for prisoners’ rights. When he was the
comander of RK squad, he participated bravely in the Yaadagirigutta PS raid.
Though he was injured in the shoulder, he rushed ahead and played a key role in
capturing the PS. He achieved a break-through in the RK area in terms of mass
mobilization into struggles, and resistance to the enemy. He participated in the
central urban military camp in 1998 and served as an instructor in AP
state-level urban MC in 2002.
He and comrade
Bhavani became life partners in the beginning of 2000 but Bhavani became a
martyr in the encounter in kanagal in 2001.
Com. Sridhar hails
from Vallur mandal in Mahboobnagar district. He was influenced by the civil
liberties leader Purushotham and worked in different cover organizations in the
district before going to Hyderabad. He worked in Hyderabad as a factory worker
and got into touch with the Party there. He was recruited into the Party as a PR
in 1992. He became a central organiser by 1995. He was thus the seniormost CO in
Hyderabad and would have been taken into the city committee had he not been
killed. He escaped from police dragnet several times and was most hunted after
in the city. He had withstood the severe repression in the city and worked
confidently adapting himself to the conditions in the city.
In his personal life
he was extraordinarily exemplary, like Com. Mahendar. He proved himself to be a
real representative of the working class displaying working class qualities in
all walks of life. The loss of these two comrades is a great loss to the city
movement and to the revolutionary movement in general.
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