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After a one year gap, the nine year period of Chandrabubu’s repression regime,
came again, of course with more severity under the present CM Y.S.Rajasekhar
Reddy. Failures on all the fronts and unable to keep the election promises and
the pressures form the World Bank; the state was left with no other resort other
than repression. The black days of emergency during Indira Gandhi period have
once again become the order of the day in AP.
The Congress Government came to the power promising free power to farmers,
holding talks with the Naxalites, and separate statehood for Telangana. None of
the promises have come true. The Chief Minister himself tried his best to
disrupt the talks with the Naxalites by giving provocative, counter productive
and out of context statements. He is doing the same till today on the naxal
issue and Telangana. The CM encouraged the top brass of the police to be
aggressive and adopted a carrot and stick policy. The police have continued the
fake encounter killings. Including Riaz (CPI-ML, Janashakthi), one of the
members of the delegation of Naxals in the talks, the state has killed a large
number of Maoists, JS and other parties cadre in cold blood. The situation in
the state has become very tense. TRS has pulled out of the Government. With this
the dawn of peace has slowly melted and the state turned into a battle field.
When Maoists attacked Chilakaluripet police station in Guntur district and
Superintendent of Police in Prakasam district, heavy repression was unleashed on
the activists of all mass organisations including Dalit organisations. Police
have taken many activists and leaders of various mass organisations into custody
illegally. Some of them were beaten badly, some of them were forced to resign
from the organisation and some of them were foisted with fake cases. Some of
them were threatened to be killed in an encounter. Guntur, Prakasham and
Mahaboob Nagar districts were under the shadow of greyhounds and all the
activities of common people went into the control of the police.
Ruthlessness repression was started by the State through private gangs after the
killing of Congress MLA, Mr.Narsi Reddy of Makthal, Mahaboobnagar district by
Maoists on 15th August 2005. Now the state repression have grown to new heights,
through killings, attacking, kidnapping, threatening and death warrants by
phone, intimidate by announcing a list of leaders to be killed in the newspaper,
using surrender Naxalites, private factionist gangsters, etc. These harassments
are not only to the leaders of progressive and democratic organisations, but
also to the general people, intellectuals, workers, peasants, rythu coolis and
even to MLA’s of the Telangana Rastra Samithi (TRS). It was much discussed in
the media that a network of police officers is behind the scene in these
harassments.
Private gangs with full support and supply from the police and the state in the
name of "Narsa Cobra’s (floated after the killing of MLA Narsi
Reddy) announced a list of names of leaders of mass organizations in the media
on 17th of August 2005 threatening to kill them. Till today 70 more names of
persons belonging to various organisations were announced by various
Cobras. Just in the span of less than a month the as bit three leaders
to death.
Mr.Kanaka Chary’s name also figured in the list announced by the Narasa Cobras
on 17th August 2005. Within a week, on 24th August 2005 the Narsa Kobras
killed Mr. Kanaka Chary (55), a teacher working in a Government school near
Makthal of Mahaboobnagar district. Com.Kanaka Chary was one of the founder
members of the Andhra Pradesh Teacher’s Forum (APTF) in the district. Afterwards
he joined the Telangana Jana Sabha (TJS) and worked day and night for the cause
of separate statehood for Telangana. Not only in his district Mahaboobnagar, he
was well known throughout the Telangana region. He was closely associated with
various agitations like the anti-drought campaign and in a team to study the
suicides of ST farmers in the district. At the time of his assassination he was
a state executive member of the Patriotic and Democratic Movement (PDM).
On 24th August morning Mr. Kanaka Chary as usual started going to the School on
his two wheeler. In the evening at 7:30 PM news appeared in the electronic media
that he was killed by some persons called Narsa Cobras. The Cobras thrown the
dead body of Kanaka Chary into the bushes near Uthnoor of Mahaboobnagar
district. It was known later that some unidentified members followed him in a
Maruthi van and took him into their custody, while he was going to school. In a
press statement the Narasa Cobras proclaimed that they were responsible for the
murder and threatened many others to face the same kind of treatment if they
continue to work in the mass organisations. The Cobras terrorized the members of
the mass organisations to face dire consequences if they participate in the
funeral procession and in any memorial meetings. After the funeral of Mr. Kakana
Chary, the Narsa Cobras announced one more list of names with those who
participated in the funeral ceremony of Mr. Kanaka Chary.
At the same time one more list was announced from Markapuram Village of
Prakasham District in the name of Nallamalla Nallathrachulu. After
few days another list appeared in the media from Warangal district in the name
of Kakatiya Cobras. There is no response either from the state
Government of from the Police on the brutal killings by the Cobras.
On 10th September, Nallamalla Nallathrachulu killed Mr. Mannem Devi Prasadbabu,
District committee President of Kula Nirmulana Porata Samithi (KNPS — anti-caste
organisation) at his work place. Com. Prasad was working as the paid secretary
in the agricultural cooperative bank at Singarayakonda village. On 10th
September morning 10:30 P.M some unidentified persons came to the bank and asked
the peon about Mr.Prasad. As Prasad was not present at that time these people
spent some time and came back in the afternoon. During the Lunch break they once
again asked for Prasad and manhandled the attender in order to rush inside the
bank. As the manger was inside and the chest was open they were stopped from
entering the bank. Prasad was informed that some visitors are waiting for him
outside. When he came out, three people attacked Prasad with sickles and axes
and he was dead on the spot.
On 14th September 2005, along similar lines, Mr.Kilinga Rao, sympathiser of the
mass organisations was killed by some unidentified persons in the name of
Victims of Naxalites in Karimnagar town. There are apprehensions that no other
than the police did this brutal act of killing an innocent person. Every day
threatening press notes, phone calls and letters are coming to members of
various mass organisations.
On 19th September 2005 evening Nallamalla Nallathrachulu telephoned Cheemakurthi,
village surpunch, and to the media and informed that they have killed Malldi
Ravindra of the APPKM. They informed that the body was thrown out on the
outskirts of the village. Relatives searched for the dead body but were not able
to get it. According to eye witness and the kin and kith of Ravindra, on that
particular day he went to the RTA office to settle the issue of his tractor.
From the RTA office some persons introducing themselves as the police and had
taken him away on a vehicle. Next day evening Ravindra appeared in a police
station and announced that he is alright and nothing has happened to him. But
the fact is that he was beaten badly and threatened to be killed. It was an
obvious fact that the police took a promise from Ravindra not to disclose
anything that happed during his ‘missing’.
The Cobras have been created and nurtured by top police officials along with the
Chief Minister of the state. The Cobras in their every statement are saying that
all mass organisations are the frontal organisations of the Maoist Party and the
members will be killed if they continue to work in these organisations. The
factionist nature of killings can be observed in the present assassinations of
mass organisation leaders. Their throat was slit by knives; their necks were cut
with axes and sickles. All the three murders by the Cobras were in broad day
light.
Now the cobras are sending death warnings by phones and letters. They made calls
to Mr. N.Venugopal, senior journalist and a member of Revolutionary Writers
Association (VIRASAM). Nallamalla Nallathrachulu made calls to Ms.Sujatha,
General Secretary of the women’s organisation the Andhra Pradesh Chaitanya
Mahila Samakhya (APCMS) and abused her in rude and filthy language. They
threatened her with rape. The threatening calls are from Cheemakurthi, Srisailam,
Ongole, Vinukonda and Santhanuthalapadu villages.
Death warrants are being issued to the leaders of democratic organisations.
Mr.L.Veeranna, an engineer working in Warangal was threatened by an unidentified
person that he should resigns from APCLC otherwise his dead body will be
dispatched to his home. Mr. Jayabalanna, joint secretaray of APCLC committee of
Mahaboob Nagar district is being terrorised by the Narsa Cobras. As a result he
fled away from his native place and became silent.
In response to the brutal killings, threatenings, kidnaps, attacks, the Director
General of Police (DGP) is giving ironic statements such as "these killings are
in response to Maoist’s actions" and "Police are not snake catchers to catch the
Cobras". One can easily understand the state of civil, human and democratic
rights situation from such statements of a civil servant who is in the highest
post. The DGP himself is involved in child trafficking. His wife, Anita Sen was
arrested on grounds of child trafficking in the name of adoption and violated
CARA and later on released when he was working as an IG. He tried by all means
to set his wife free from all the cases. He went to the extent of arresting the
investigation officer Mrs.Shalini Misra, of his wife’s case. He became DGP with
the blessings of Robert Vadhera, son in law of UPA chairperson, Mrs. Sonia
Gandhi. With those blessings he became a supercap and is acting above the Home
Minister and Chief Minister. Many mass organisations organised a dharna in front
of the DGP office in Hyderabad on the moves of the DGP. This irked him a lot.
This may be one of the reasons for encouraging the private gangs against the
mass organisations.
The State wants to crush the democratic voice of the people who are exposing its
failures and anti- people policies. The anguish of the people over the present
Congress Government is increasing day by day due to is failures in many issues.
Large scale corruption at every stage in the administration made the lives of
the people miserable. Huge kick backs and high level corruption involved in the
irrigation projects and other anti-people policies made the prospects of the
Congress party in the ensuing Municipal elections very poor. It is do or die for
the CM to win the Municipal polls to retain his seat. It also necessary for the
state and central Government to smoothly carry out the World Bank and other
imperialist agencies polices in this country. Hence protests of any kind should
not be allowed. The main opposition will be from the mass organisations which
are not aspirants of any power and people will have faith on them. It is a known
fact that these organisations are neither anti-social elements nor against the
framework of the constitution. These organisations function in a legal way. All
members of these organisations are working in various Government and private
organisations and none of them are under ground as alleged by the police. Just
for its survival and to continue the imperialist policies the State Government
banned the Revolutionary Writer Association (RWA) and put two of its members and
well known poets Dr. Varavara Rao and Mr.Kalyana Rao behind the bars. The State
had lost its face with this foolish act and have withdrawn the ban but have
foisted a whole lot of false cases on the two artists.
To
minimize the voice of truth it was planned by the state and the police to
eliminate some of the activists of mass organisation by anti-social gangs. It
was the Green Tigers, Singamalai and Thirumala Tigers created by Chandra Bubu
Naidu Government that killed Com. Puroshottam (APCLC), Aazam Ali (APCLC) and
kidnapped Dr. Laxman (APCLC). Now it is the turn of the Cobras in the Y.S,
Rajashekar Reddy regime. Governments have changed but polices remain the same.
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