COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MAOIST)
CENTRAL
COMMITTEE
November 30, 2010
Dear Comrades and Friends of Indian Revolution,
On behalf of our Party,
the CPI (Maoist), People’s Liberation Guerilla Army (PLGA), Revolutionary
People’s Committees (RPCs), revolutionary mass organizations and revolutionary
people of India, firstly, we send our heartfelt Laal Salaam (Red Salutes) to
all the parties, organizations, various forums and individuals from India and
abroad, who had sent condolence messages to our CC and who had condemned the
brutal murders of comrades Cherukuri Rajkumar (Azad) and Hemchand Pandey on
July 1, 2010 by the fascist Indian ruling classes. As all of you have
acknowledged, losing comrade Azad is one of the biggest blows our party and Indian revolution had suffered. Azad
was one of the topmost leaders in our party. He has been leading the Indian
revolution since a long time. In our country, People’s War is intensifying with
each passing day. With the aid and support of imperialists, particularly the American
imperialists, the Indian reactionary ruling classes are trying to suppress the
revolutionary movement and are carrying on ruthless atrocities in an
unprecedented severe manner. In this war between the people and the ruling
classes, the enemy had particularly schemed to murder our leaders and
concentrated on comrades like Azad who are leading the revolution. It is as
part of that conspiracy that comrade Azad was caught and killed in the most
brutal and cowardly manner. Comrade Azad was leading the entire urban movement
on behalf of our Central Committee and was also looking after political
propaganda, party periodicals, party education and other such crucial
responsibilities. He was a most experienced and popular mass leader. He
maintained close relations with many comrades at various levels and with the
revolutionary masses. In the midst of severe repression, he worked selflessly
and unflinchingly in spite of the many risks involved. It is under such
circumstances that the enemy came to know about his whereabouts somewhere and
could catch him by laying in wait.
Your messages and
condemnations released in the true internationalist spirit had given the
necessary moral support to the oppressed peoples and the comrades who were
grief-stricken with this shocking news. Due to the severe repressive conditions
here, we could not receive all the messages and even the messages we received
had reached us very late. Hence we feel very sorry for this delay in sending
you a reply.
Comrade Azad was
attracted to the revolutionary movement while he was studying in the Warangal Regional Engineering
College in 1972. Azad who
was exceptionally brilliant in his studies had played a dynamic role in the
revolutionary movement too. He played a role in the formation of the Radical
Students Union (RSU) in 1974. He was elected as the state president of RSU in
1978. He was one of the founders of the All India revolutionary student’s
movement and guided it from its inception in 1985. He played a key role in
conducting a seminar on Nationality Question in the then Madras city in 1981. Later he took up the
responsibility of building the revolutionary movement in Karnataka and build up
the Maoist party in this State for the first time. He attracted many comrades
like Saketh Rajan into the party. When opportunistic elements tried to split
the party in 1985 and in 1991, comrade Azad had played a crucial role in
defending party line and keeping it united and strong enough in defeating their
opportunist politics. He worked
tirelessly for twenty years as a CC member and Politburo member from 1990 till
now. We cannot separate Azad’s life from the history of revolutionary movement
of the past forty years. Particularly, he played a key role in the ideological,
political spheres, party education and running of periodicals. He fulfilled the
responsibility of the party spokesperson since three years as ‘Azad’ in the
most excellent and exemplary manner. He used his intellect and sharp pen
outstandingly in fighting back the ‘War on People’ led by the Manmohan
Singh-Sonia-Chidambaram gang. He stood as the powerful voice of the people
against the rulers and exploiters. In the development of the party’s political
line, in the development of the party, people’s army and mass organizations, in
expanding the movement, in the emergence of new democratic power organs and in
all the victories won, Azad’s ideological, political work and practice played a
key role. Unflinching commitment in face of any odds and during the ebb and
flow of the movement, great sacrificing nature, selflessness, simple living,
indefatigable work for the revolution and for the interests of the people,
astounding study, study of changing phenomena in the society from time to time,
being with the people always are some of the great proletarian ideals
established by Comrade Azad. Though he is no more, it is undeniable that he
would serve as a revolutionary role model to every revolutionary and
particularly to the youth, students and intellectuals.
Hemchand Pandey was a
progressive free lance journalist from Uttarakhand who had used his pen to
bring to light the plight of the poor oppressed people of our country. He was
killed as he could bring out the truth behind Azad’s murder. The brutal murder
of this pro-people young budding intellectual is just another instance of the
callousness of the fascists.
You have rightly
condemned these ghastly murders by exposing the conspiracy of the Indian ruling
classes in killing Azad, which is to crush the ever expanding revolutionary
movement under the leadership of CPI (Maoist) and to render the people and
party leaderless. Azad’s murder is the latest one in a series of such murders
of our leaders carried out in the name of ‘encounters’ for the past 40 years
and especially since the successful completion of our Unity Congress-9th
Congress in 2007. The government had declared CPI (Maoist) to be the biggest
internal security threat and launched many suppression campaigns to crush the
movement, the latest being Operation Green Hunt, launched in mid-2009. This is
the biggest offensive launched on the revolutionary movement in India so far
and it has resulted in unprecedented destruction of lives and property of the
people. Extra-judicial killings of leaders and massacres of people are all part
of this counterrevolutionary multi-pronged offensive.
All of you had condemned
this war on Indian people, particularly on the adivasis, with right indignation and demanded that it be
immediately stopped. The people of revolutionary movement areas warmly remember
this international solidarity expressed by various parties, organizations,
individuals and the proletariat of various countries as this is exactly the
kind of support which must be extended to any genuine movement of the people
when it faces such fascist onslaught. We very much appreciate this kind of
support and solidarity and firmly assert that we will reciprocate the same
towards other fighting masses in various parts of the globe. This kind of
solidarity infuses great confidence and reassurance among the fighting people
that there are not alone in their fight. It also points sharply one more time
towards the common enemies we all are facing, namely imperialism and all kinds
of reactionaries. It enhances the fighting spirit of the people and helps them
to advance the movement firmly. Our party, PLGA, RPCs, Revolutionary Mass
organizations, revolutionary people and all progressive and democratic forces
of our country exactly wish for such unity and solidarity at the domestic and
international scale. This is extremely important to defend the people’s
movement and to advance it.
We once again pledge
before all of you that we would carry on the lofty aims of all great martyrs of
the world proletarian revolution including Comrade Azad and announce that no
amount of fascist repression can subdue the fighting spirit of our Party and
the revolutionary people of India. We will march forward with renewed
determination braving all kinds of odds and making sacrifices till the final
victory. This is our promise to all the friends and well-wishers of Indian
revolution.
« LONG LIVE PROLETARIAN INTERNATIONALISM!
« LONG LIVE THE UNITY OF INTERNATIONAL PROLETARIAT,
REVOLUTIONARY AND DEMOCRATIC FORCES AND THE OPPRESSED NATIONS AND PEOPLES ALL
OVER THE WORLD!
With
revolutionary greetings,
(Abhay)
Spokesperson,
Central
Committee,
CPI (Maoist)
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