DKSZC Secretary and People`s Beloved
Leader Comrade Ramanna (Ravula Srinivas) – Red Salute!
Fight to Realize the Dreams of Immortal Martyrs to the Last Breath!
On 7th December at 10 pm, 55 year old,
Comrade Ravula Srinivas (Ramanna, Narender) has
fell victim to serious illness and died. Since Oct
2011 he had taken the responsibilities of the
Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee (DKSZC) as
its Secretary. He was also co-opted as Central
Committee Member in Mar 2013. His long 36 year
revolutionary life had been linked to all the twists
and turns of the Dandakaranya Revolutionary
Movement. He was one who had gained lot of
respect and confidence of the masses and the
cadres alike and was their beloved leader and
fighter. In memory of Ravula Srinivas’s dedicated
contribution and highest service to the
revolutionary movement of India and especially
that of Dandakaranya, the Central Committee
humbly, with bowed heads pays revolutionary
homage and pledges to march forward to realise
his dreams. It joins in the mourning of the
bereaved family, friends, comrades in arms and the
oppressed masses. Our Central Committee appeals
the rank and file and the oppressed of the country
to make the New Democratic Revolution a success
and fulfil the dreams of the immortal martyrs.
Comrade Ramanna born in July 1965, as a sixth
child to mother Varamma and father Ramalingam
in the village of Bekkal of Byranpalli panchayat,
Cheriyalmandal of the then undivided Warangal
district of Telangana state. Parents called him
Srinivas. The Jangama area of Telangana had been
popularly known for the great revolutionary
heritage due to the historic armed struggles by the
heroic peasants there against the Razakars of the
Nizam rule at first and later the Nehru-Patel
mercenary army, under the leadership of the
undivided CPI. On this land hundreds of fighters
had laid their lives fighting with immense courage
and valour. In these historic struggles Srinivas’s
grandfather and father were actively involved. Born in this legendary village Srinivas was sent to
nearby Dhulmitta high school, where he got acquainted to revolutionary student politics. The
revolutionary heritage of his area and that of his family was a great help for him. He joined the
Radical Students Union (RSU) in 1981-82. As an active member of his school unit he participated in
various struggles of the students. He participated in the 1982 and 83 campaign – “Students and
Youth! Go to Village”. In this process he advanced his revolutionary spirits. Understanding the needs
of the movement he was sent to Dandakaranya by the Warangal District Committee as a professional
revolutionary (PR), as soon as he got his party membership in April 1983.
With a new name Ramanna he joined the Dandakaranya-Bhadrachalam Guerrilla Squad in June
1983 as a member and thereby started his guerrilla warrior life. In Dec that year he was transferred
to Konta Squad. In 1985 he became the deputy commander and later in 1987 he became the
commander of the same squad. He was promoted to as the secretary of the Konta squad AC (SAC) in
1992. Accordingly gave direct leadership to various mass struggles against the forest and revenue
department’s exploitation, torture and oppression, by organising the adivasi masses of Konta,
Sukma, Gorllapalli, Dornapaland Kishtaram area. He led the land agitations from the front. Comrade
Ramanna was a brave fighter who bravely led the squad in facing the mercenary Police of the enemy
and in annihilating cruel Landlords like Kalmu Deval, Burda Wadde. He married his comrade in arms
in 1993 and has a son.
After being promoted as Divisional Committee Member (DVC) in 1993, he also became the
commander of the first military squad formed in that area. In Mar 1995, as per the needs of the
movement he was transferred to North Bastar where he worked under a new name Narendra and
led people’s struggles in Keshkal, Kondagaon, Koilibeda and Maad area. He advanced the
revolutionary movement facing the enemy’s onslaught. In Sept 1998 he was again transferred to
South Bastar. In Sept 2000, 3rd Divisional Conference, the Division was divided into two diviosions -
South Bastar Division and West Bastar Division and he was elected as the Secretary of the South
Bastar Division. In the same year December, in the Dandakaranya Special Zonal 3rd Conference he
was elected as a SZC member. He took up the responsibility associated with his promotion to SZC
Secretariat and also as the member of the State Military Commission in 2003. In 2005 he became the
Party Committee Secretary of Company – 2 (CyPC). Later again he was elected as member of the
DKSZC in the 4th Special Zonal Conference 2006 and continued as its Secretariat member. He was
elected as the Secretary of the South Bastar Sub Zonal Bureau in Dec 2007. He became the Party
Committee Secretary of the First Battalion of DK PLGA in Aug 2009 and led many a military actions.
This process in the campaign against Jan Jagaran Abhiyan in 1990, resisting and defeating the attacks
of Salva Judum (2005-2009) and Operation Green Hunt (2009-2017) Com. Ramanna played an
important role. In Oct 2011 first plenum of the 4th Conference of DKSpecial Zone he was elected as
the Secretary of the SZC. In Mar 2013 he took up the responsibility of developing revolutionary
movement in India, after being co-opted in the Central Committee. He had been severely suffering
from diabetes for last 20 years and thus breath his last on Dec 7th 2019 amongst his cadres and PLGA
fighters and people, fighting selflessly for the masses till the last. Enemy by creating serious obstacles
to bring necessary foods, medicines and arranging treatment to the sick and the injured in the Party
and the PLGA forces is violating the internationally accepted law in war effected zones. Hence the
death due to non-availability of medical help amounts to murder by the state.
Since he first stepped in Dandakaranya in 1983 till his last breath, comrade Ramanna made his
utmost effort as a leader and as a fighter to develop Dandakaranya as the base area as part of the
process to successfully complete the New Democratic Revolution of India. In the process to
understand the class composition and to identify the class enemy in the adivasi society and get a grip
on the social, economical, political and cultural aspects of Bastar he not only played a role in its
social investigation but also developed a skill in organising the masses by educating them right from
the beginning on the revolutionary politics that ‘only through armed struggle people can win political
power’ and succeeded in organising the masses in anti-feudal class struggle. He showed his creative
skills in developing the mass organisations and the peoples’ war by organising the masses in antifeudal,
anti-imperialist struggles and struggles against state violence. He developed; basing on class
hatred the militant people’s resistance movement by incorporating the organised masses in militia
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i.e. Gram Raksha Dal (GRD) then in Bhoomkal Militia, Militia Platoons and Militia Companies. He
organised the women in class struggles against patriarchy and state violence and in various
organisations in large numbers. He faced many a difficulties and ups & downs in guerrilla life with
determination. With a strong conviction in the party line and the masses – he played an important
role in organising the masses from the village level for class struggle in social, economical, political
and cultural fields and simultaneously forming mass organisations, militia, party cells, village party
committees and branch committees; and as units of people’s political power – first, a gram rajya
committee and then panchayat, area and division level Revolutionary People’s Committee (RPC) and
also Coordination Committee of the People’s Revolutionary Jantana Sarkar of Dandakaranya. He
exposed the ruling classes and organised the adivasi people of Dandakaranya and led militant
movements against false development model proposed by the imperialist-corporate combine; and
the Mining Projects like – Bailadilla, Nandraj Range, Raoghat, Hahladi, Kuvvemaari, Surjagarh and
Steel Plants like Lohadiguda and Dhurli as well as Bodhghat Dam etc., that aimed to uproot lakhs of
people. He motivated hundreds of young boys and girls organised in various fronts to join the PLGA
and hence developed and strengthen the PLGA formations. He led in forming and developing the
secret people’s intelligence network to counter enemy forces and the informer network of the
enemy. He played a key role in facing the continued all round repression along with the LIC policy
under which reforms, psychological warfare, psuedosurrender policy were brought out in order to
smash the revolutionary movements by the exploiter ruling classes of India. Right from 1987
Kurnapalli, 1992 Lingampalli ambush; Uppermetlla, Tadmetlla, Tongguda, Bhttiguda, Singanmadagu,
Mukram, Kassalpad; in 2018 Yelladmadgu, Kasaram; in 2019 Kondasavli, Keshkutul ambush and upto
Kalimela and Bailadilla Raids; comrade Ramanna has played a direct and important role and thereby
intensify the guerrilla war; especially planning and implementing Mukram ambush and Ranibodhelli
raid which had characteristics of Mobile warfare; in arming and developing the striking power of the
PLGA by carrying out arms seizure raids in large numbers; he had played an important role. The DK
Plenum in 2011 evaluated that the Dandakaranya revolutionary Movement was going through a
difficult times. In this situation also without least hesitation, to advance the movement he carried
out the task of leading the DKSZC as its secretary boldly.
Comrade Ramanna’s revolutionary spirit, daring, simplicity and hardships lifestyle, has become
ideals for communist revolutionaries and guerrillas. In every twists and turns we have seen him
gelling with the masses and cadres. His farsighted efforts to develop people’s resistance movement
and guerrilla war by raising political consciousness and class hatred in the people to develop Party,
PLGA and United Front; is an example in front of all comrades. He hated surrender and escapist
tendencies within the party and developed the consciousness necessary in facing such tendencies in
the cadres and masses like any good communist revolutionary and a real son of the proletariat. The
revolutionary ideals established by him will continue to inspire the revolutionaries in future.
Dear comrades and oppressed masses! Come let us pay homage to the beloved revolutionary
leader of India, warrior and immortal martyr Com Ravula Srinivas! Let us raise his spirited ideals in
the masses!Come forward with determination to fill up the wide gap created by his loss! Let us
commemorate immortal martyr Com Ramanna by carrying out Memorial meetings all over India,
especially in all the divisions and all the villages of Dandakaranya! Let the slogan to “Advance the
Protracted Peoples’ War to defeat the counter revolutionary Samadhan war tactics of the central
and the state government launched against the Revolutionary Movement” reverberate the skies!
Hold steadfastly to the promise to take the task of completing the New Democratic Revolution
leading to Socialism and Communism, to fulfil the dreams of thousands of revolutionary martyrs!
Abhay
Spokesperson
Central Committee
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