Hyderabad: Police here Sunday stopped Pratyamnaya Rajakeeya Vedika
(Forum for Political Alternative) from holding a meeting, saying it’s a
frontal organisation of a banned Maoist Party, and arrested its leaders
and activists. Police arrested about 50 leaders and activists of the
forum as they reached Sundarayya Vignana Kendram in Baghlingampalli to
attend the meeting called to mark 10 years of united revolutionary
movement.
The forum’s leaders and revolutionary writers Varavara Rao and Kalyan
Rao and Jeetan Marandi, a revolutionary singer from Jharkhand, were
among those arrested. Police deployed forces and erected barricades on
the roads leading towards the meeting venue to prevent activists from
proceeding. Deputy Commissioner of Police V.K. Kamalasan Reddy told
reporters that the Hyderabad High Court had denied permission to the
forum to hold the meeting. He said the forum is a frontal organisation
of banned Communist Party of India-Maoist and any activity of the outfit
is illegal.
Varavara Rao, who is heading the forum, was initially placed under
house arrest and later taken into custody by police in Hyderabad while
Kalyan Rao was arrested late Saturday night in Macherla in Guntur
district of neighbouring state of Andhra Pradesh as he was leaving for
Hyderabad to attend the meeting. Varavara Rao’s wife P. Hemalatah
condemned the police action. She said police denied the permission for
the rally and now stopped the meeting.
“This was never happened in the past. We were not expecting this
under TRS (Telangana Rashtra Samithi) rule in the new state of
Telangana,” she said. The organisers had said the meeting was called to
review the progress, achievements and objectives of 10 years of united
revolutionary movement, a reference to merger of CPI-ML People’s War
Group with Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) to form the CPI-Maoist.
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