Press Release
12th December 2019
CPI(MAOIST) – Central Committee Member, 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!
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
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!
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