COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MAOIST)
Central Committee
5 June 2022
Appeal from the Communist Party of India (Maoist)
Make success the Worldwide Action Week from September
13th
to 19th
for the release of Political Prisoners and demanding a
stop to drone attacks as per the call of ICSPWI
The ICSPWI gave a call to observe Action Week for
the release of political prisoners and with the demand to stop drone
attacks on the revolutionary people and revolutionaries in the areas
of revolutionary movement in India from September 13th
to 19th
on the occasion of 93rd
death Anniversary of Comrade Jatin Das, a colleague of prominent
National Revolutionaries Comrades Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev.
The Central Committee of our Party CPI (Maoist) calls upon the entire
units of the Party, PLGA, Revolutionary people's organs,
revolutionary people, workers, peasants, students, intellectuals,
women, religious minorities, Dalit and tribal people, the Marxist,
Leninist, Maoist parties, organisations, anti-imperialist
organisations, individuals, oppressed nationalities and oppressed
classes in various countries of the world to participate in the
Action Week with firm determination and make it a success.
In the background of further intensifying financial and economic
crisis of imperialism, the imperialists are implementing
globalisation policies to overcome the crisis, for markets of their
MNCs and for natural resources. They are bringing fascist parties to
power to speed up corporatisation in the backward semi-colonial,
semi-feudal countries. As a part of it they brought the Modi
government to power in the leadership of Brahmanic Hindutva Fascist
RSS-BJP in semi-colonial, semi-feudal India. Since Modi government
came to power fascist attacks further intensified all over the
country. Constitutional organisations are saffronized/fascistized.
Allotments
to the government, police, Para-military and
Indian Army forces are constantly been raising in the Defense budget
of the country and are being militarised. Several anti-people Acts,
especially draconian repressive Acts that are against the interests
of workers, farmers, middle class, small and medium kind traders and
shop-owners were made. Fascist rulers cannot see the daily,
fundamental and life and death problems of the people. They make a
big propaganda that terrorist and left extremism is causing danger to
the security of the country. Corporate media hypes the propaganda.
Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA)-2019, Human Rights
Commission Amendment Act-2019, NIA Amendment Act-2019, Right to
Information Amendment Act-2019 and other such Acts that crush minimum
freedom and independence of the people are part of it. As a result,
there are fascist attacks on human rights activists, social
activists, lawyers, worker and farmer leaders, activists, democrats,
tribals fighting with the slogans of
‘jal-jungle-zameen-ijjat-adhikar', ‘our government in our
village’, Muslims, women, students, teachers, lecturers, Professors
and artists. They are foisted with false cases under draconian Acts
such as UAPA and Sedition and put to physical and mental tortures.
Especially it has become a normal feature in the country to arrest
the leadership, cadres, activists of Mass Organisation, Presidents
and members of Revolutionary People's Committees, activists of
People's Militia, sympathisers of our party who are fighting with the
objective of liberating the country from the exploitation and
oppression of the imperialists and comprador rulers and establish New
Democratic system for the past above five decades, to arrest the
leaders, activists and people of organisations fighting for the
liberation of nationalities such as Kashmir, Naga, Manipur, Asom and
Bodo. Hundreds of such people are languishing in jails in our areas
of movement. They are not bothered about the repeated directions of
the Supreme Court to the police and Para-military forces to implement
minimum force when dealing with people's movements or the number of
reports released by government agencies such as the Human Rights
Commissions on the lock-up murders, atrocities on women and police
tortures. On the contrary they are imprisoning pro-people activists
of various organisations and social activists. They are threatening
lawyers who are taking up people’s cases and depriving the people
of justice. The police do not exempt the rights’ activists and
lawyers working professionally and with commitment for the release of
political prisoners. Associations that have to protect the interests
of lawyers and clients degenerated into ‘Khap Panchayats' directing
the lawyers not to take up any case of Muslims, Christians, Dalits
and Maoists’. There are attacks on Magistrates who warn the
inappropriate and indiscriminate arrests of innocent tribal people.
The District Magistrate of Sukma Prabhakar Gwal was removed from his
job in the name of ‘people's interest’. Deputy Jailor of Raipur
Central Jail Varsha Dongre was suspended. Sexual atrocity is used as
a weapon to suppress the movements. There is constant pressure on the
people to surrender, to work as informers and to join the various
police, Para-Military forces. They are lured in various ways.
Thousands of people left their villages unable to bear police
harassment.
Leader of Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF) Professor Saibaba,
Revolutionary writer Varavara Rao, Professor Anand Teltumbde and all
those foisted with the false Bhima Koregaon case are languishing in
jail for the past few years. One of the persons in the case Father
Stan Swamy was murdered in the jail being deprived of minimum medical
facilities. Member of the CC of our Party Comrade Milind Teltumbde
was murdered in the Mardintola-Pareva encirclement attack with the
collaboration of Modi’s Hindutva fascist government and the
respective state government. Modi government is conspiring to murder
the rest also in some or the other manner. Although Varavara Rao was
granted bail owing to the pressure of people's movements, he was kept
in house arrest. Sudha Bharadwaj was granted conditional bail. We
need to demand the lifting of conditional bail on them. The rest of
those in the case are suffering with many prolonged diseases. We need
to demand their immediate release. NIA is coming in the way to all
the appeals to release them on bail. We are aware that all the
judicial experts of the country and the world are severely opposing
this.
In the process member of Polit Bureau of the CC of
our Party and in-charge of the Eastern Regional Bureau (ERB) Comrade
Kishanda (Prasant Bose) and CCM Sheela Marandi were arrested in
Saraikela on 12th
November 2021 by the Jharkhand police. Comrade Kishanda is 76 years
old and is suffering with Coronary artery, Anstable angina and
Cerebro vescular accident since 2014, Prostrate cancer for test,
Osteo Arthritis, Blood Pressure and Sugar and other such diseases.
Comrade Sheeladi is suffering from Blood Pressure hypertrophy and
ventricular hypertrophy, Gall bladder stone, Osteo Arthritis,
Osteoporosis and Senile Cataract and were undergoing treatment. The
diseases need immediate treatment without delay. But the government
plans to imprison and murder Comrade Prasant Bose alleging him to be
the main person in the Bhima Koregaon case. In fact the prominent
forensic Arsenal lab of US exposed the conspiracy of the government
in the Bhima Koregaon case. NIA did not submit the charge sheet to
the court in time. The judiciary that has to annul the case and
release them is acting on the dictates of the government. The NIA was
given all powers in such cases.
Member of the CC and member of Western Ghats
Special Zonal Committee Comrade Vijay (BG Krishnamurty) was arrested
along with a woman comrade Savitri on 9th
November 2021 in Sultan Batheri village of Wayanad district of
Kerala. Member of the CC Comrade Kanchanda (Arun Kumar Bhattacharya)
was arrested along with Aakash Urang (Rahul/Kajallon 5th
March 2022 in a tea plantation in Udarband area of Asom. He is 72
years old and is leading the revolutionary movement staying secret in
spite of suffering with several diseases for a long time.
Member of the CC Comrade Jaspalji (Vijay Kumar
Arya) was arrested in Samhata village in the jurisdiction of Rohtas
police station of Rohtas district in Bihar on 13th
April 2022. Journalist Rupesh Kumar Singh (Bhagalpur), Anil Yadav
(Rafiganj, Aurangabad), Rajesh Gupta, Umesh Chowdary (Samhata,
Rohtas) were foisted draconian Acts by NIA.
The comprador rulers plan to murder all these persons and especially
our party leadership by foisting several draconian acts and murder
them in prison. They are stamping the democratic value of ‘jail is
not a necessity. Bail is a rule’. Supreme Court directed to give
first importance to bail petitions but no one bothers it. This is
unconstitutional.
Hindutva government of Modi did not arrest the actual conspirers, a
Hindutva teacher Milind Ekbote and Anil Bhide and violated the
nominal democracy in the country. None of the police officers was
punished in spite of the reports of the massacres in Sarkinguda and
Edsametta in Chhattisgarh that they were police murders. Nothing is
said about action on the murderers of Father Stan Swamy. Dozens of
extreme Hindutva organisations in the country are indulging in
constant mob lynching, prestige murders chanting 'Gayi, Ganga,
Geeta’. Although these organisations have a hand in the murders of
Narendra Dabholkar, Govind Pansare, Kalburgi and Gowri Lankesh these
are working ‘legally’.
A religious minority of the country, the Muslims are the majority in
the jails. Innocent oppressed Dalit and tribal people are imprisoned
in thousands of numbers. All the victims of TADA, POTA and the
present UAPA are mostly from the poor classes belonging to Muslim,
Dalit and tribal communities. Father Stan Swamy wrote in his research
paper that 97 percent of the three thousand tribal people languishing
in the Jharkhand prisons for years together were foisted with false
allegations. Especially most of the political prisoners are
languishing in jails without trial. There are attacks on human rights
activists, social activists, lawyers, democrats, secular, progressive
persons, patriots, poets, writers and artists constantly fighting for
the rights of women and people of Dalit, tribal and religious
minorities. They are branded ‘urban Maoists’ and are put in
jails. They are given life imprisonment and prolonged rigorous
imprisonment. Thousands of people are behind the bars for many years
on false allegations and are finally released not guilty.
The Jehanabad district court of Bihar proclaimed
hanging to 10 comrades and life imprisonment to three in the Sinari
case. The mercy petition on the hanging for four Maoist prisoners in
the Bara case was pending with the President's office for the past 24
years. Finally the President issued directions that ‘they have to
stay in jail until they are alive’. The Munger district court gave
death sentence to five tribal and farmer activists. The Dumka
district court of Jharkhand proclaimed death sentence to Comrade
Praveer, a member of the East Bihar- North East Jharkhand Special
Area Committee of our Party. Ranaveer Sena, a private army of the
oppressor caste landlords in Bihar massacred 256 poor Dalit people in
23 incidents in the 1980s and 1990s. None of the police or jail
officers was given hanging by any court who massacred thousands of
top leaderships, cadres of the revolutionary party in the past 50
years. None of the Congress or BJP leaders responsible for the 1984
Sikh massacre and the 2002 Gujarat massacre were given hanging. This
is the class justice of the ruling courts.
Revolutionaries and fighters of national liberation are being
harassed and tortured in many ways. In spite of decades of Supreme
Court judgment not to chain the prisoners, they, especially the
political prisoners are being chained all over the body in solitary
confinement. Revolutionaries like Bhupeshda, Sadhanala Ramakrishna,
Amit Bagchi, Asutosh, Madkam Gopanna are undergoing life
imprisonment. These comrades are firmly holding high the
revolutionary flag. They are moulding prisons into revolutionary
schools and centers of people's struggle. The leaders of our party
are leading the struggles in jails all over the country with the main
demand to recognise them as political prisoners, for the rights and
minimum facilities for prisoners and other such utmost just demands
thus turning the prison into another arena of war. We need to fight
for the unconditional release of all of them. The main problem is
that they are not being granted bail. They are not being taken to the
court adjournments, trial is prolonged and are arrested outside the
gate of the jail each time they are released. The courts have to
direct the police to register all the cases on the arrested person
within 4 months of his/her arrest. Measures must be taken to
implement all the punishments given by courts in various cases at a
time, i.e., in concurrency. But this is not happening. This is
against the Indian Constitution. We need to take up a political
campaign in the country and internationally so as the political
prisoners have minimum facilities, their economic needs are fulfilled
and to take up their cases.
Indian Constitution specifies that prisons must act as centres to
reform prisoners. However the Indian Prisons Act and the manuals
adopted by the various state governments are nothing but duplicates
to the jail manual adopted by the British government in 1894. Another
major hurdle to reforms in jail is that IPS officers happen to be
jail officers. Thus the jail rules are implemented as per the
interests of the police officers. As a result, the thousands of
ordinary prisoners in the 1,382 prisons undergoing trial or
punishment are in pathetic conditions. Indian prisons are considered
to be utmost worse in the whole world. Misappropriation and
atrocities of the jail officers are unlimited. Officers normally
apply third degree tortures on the prisoners who question the
violation of prison regulations and rights. It is noticeable that the
Supreme Court commented that prisoners are stuffed in jails beyond
capacity. To tell an example, while the capacity of Chhattisgarh
prisons is 6,070, there were more than 16,000 prisoners by 2017.
Forty three percent of the undertrial prisoners are being imprisoned
for 6 months to 5 years. Punishment for the cases foisted on them
would not have put them in prison for so long. Owing to poverty and
police repression the relatives of prisoners are facing many
difficulties to go for interviews.
Water and hygiene including food for the prisoners
are horrible than cattle centers. There are no minimum health
facilities in prisons. If a water pipe comes under repair, it takes 3
to 4 months to set it right. Unnatural deaths (murders) have become
ordinary feature in all the prisons in the country. Many of our
activists and rights’ activists laid down their lives this way.
According to a survey 1900 to 2100 prisoners undergoing punishment or
trial are dying in the country every year. Members of Polit Bureau
Comrade Barunda (Susheel Roy) and Comrade Vijayda (Narayan Sanyal),
members of the CC Comrades Tapasda (Patit Pavan Haldar) and Comrade
Chintanda (Narendra Singh) died within a short time after their
release due to the physical and mental tortures from the police and
jail authorities when in prison. Comrade Narmada, a leader of
Dandakaranya movement who went for treatment for cancer and her
partner Comrade Kiran were arrested and Comrade Narmada laid down her
life in the hospital on 9th
April 2022 deprived of proper treatment. All these are the murders of
the rulers.
Women are frequently suffering from ill health in prisons. Woman
political prisoners are facing more problems. Brahmanic feudal
patriarchy is suppressing them. Woman prisoners have to remove their
slippers and bow to the jail authorities. They have to cover their
head with the saree failing which they will have to hear severe
abuses. Women need to be given nutritious food but it is not given.
Certain special facilities are not available for women. Sexual
atrocities are normal on women in the prisons. No one bothers such
incidents. Police state is being unleashed under the rule of
comprador rulers. Human intelligence (constituting informers, coverts
and traitors), technical intelligence (various kinds of software of
vigilance technology like Pegasus, mobile tapping, devices such as CC
TV cameras and vigil through satellites and drones) are spreading all
over the country and the entire country turned into a big prison. All
these are a part of Fourth Generation Warfare to suppress the civil
society, non-state groups, organisations and parties that are making
various kinds of protests and people's struggles against the
imperialists and comprador rulers.
However, due to the militant democratic movements all over the
country, the government had to rethink about Section 124 A (Sedition
Act) and AFSPA-1958. It annulled AFSPA in many areas of North Eastern
states. These apart, there are several democratic movements in the
domestic and international planes for the annulment of draconian laws
such as UAPA. We need to intensify these struggles. Democrats, human
rights organisations, Dalit and tribal organisations organisations of
women, students and teachers-lecturers, individuals and various
Marxist, Leninist, Maoist parties, organisations, anti-imperialist
organisations and individuals are fighting in the country with the
slogan of save ‘democracy’.
On the other hand the danger of drone attacks is
rising in the areas of movement, mainly in Bihar, Jharkhand,
Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha. 12
bombs were dropped through drones between 2 and 3 o’clock in the
early hours of 19th
April in 2021 in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh. In 2022 more than SO
high explosive bombs were dropped in four places from 1.09 am to 1.35
am on April 14- 15. These drone attacks clearly indicate the danger
to the indigenous. Since our PLGA forces took necessary precautions
and the bombs dropped in the fields of the tribal people there was no
loss of life. However the lives of the tribal people are at stake
with bombing as they are engaged with the daily agriculture work. On
both the occasions of drone bombing, the tribal people mobilised in a
big way and held protest demonstrations and meetings. Media widely
covered these. It also covered the breaches formed in the ground and
the affected trees in the two attacks. But the police officers did
not agree that they made the drone attacks. In turn they alleged that
the Maoists are propagating lies and are instigating the people. In
both the cases the people and the media were eye witness. The CC,
DKSZC and the South Sub-Zonal Bureau issues press statements
condemning these bomb attacks. They attached the evidences regarding
the attacks. In addition to the local police, COBRA, DRG, STF,
Greyhound Commandos and Indian Army forces, mainly the Airforce
officers, men, technicians, ultra- modern drones and helicopters took
part in the second attack. The attack was coordinated among Pamed
(Bijapur district) police camp, Vimpa (Sukma district) camp,
Chennapuram (Bhadradri Kottagudem district of Telangana).
Preparations were made for 50 days. There are heavy preparations in
the Pamed police camp for more drone attacks. Preparations were made
in the supervision of top officials within the camp camouflaged with
green clothes. The Indian armies are unleashing war on the people.
Presently the Indian Army forces are deployed in large numbers in the
veil of local forces in all the camps in the areas of the movement.
The drone attacks were held in the direct supervision of the police,
Para-Military, Army forces and the officials with the permission of
the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh Bhupesh Baghel in the guidance of
the Central Home Minister Amit Shah, Ajit Dobhal, and Vijay Kumar as
per the direction of PM Modi. Five to six thousand forces were
deployed for these attacks. The forces were deployed in Cherla,
Pamed, Basaguda including Kollai, Kadiyum, Pottong, Vimpa, Elmagunda,
Sonad Ervu, Burkapal, Chintalnar, Chintagupha, Basaguda and
Chennapuram. A new police camp was set up in Poosuguppa village on
the border of Chhattisgarh and Telangana on 29”‘ April. The local
indigenous people have been holding demonstrations for the past
several months in protest to this proposed camp. But the authorities
did not heed to the people's protests. The same day there was another
police camp in Uddipenta village. Fifth Schedule is in implementation
in Bastar. The indigenous people of Bastar have been making agitation
since 2019 November in many areas in protest to the proposed camps
without the permission of Gram Sabha and the massacres unleashed by
the police. New police camps are being set up in spite of these
agitations. There are fake encounter murders. People are being
arrested on fake reasons, beaten and atrocities on women are going on
without stop.
This war has been imposed by the Indian government to loot the
-jal-jungle-zameen and natural resources and to hand them over to the
domestic and foreign big capitalists on the party and the people. It
is not possible to loot the resources without displacing the tribal
people and eliminating our party. The war is being made to eliminate
the Krantikari Janatana Sarkars that stood as a ray of hope to the
poor and oppressed people. This is gross violation of Indian
Constitution. It is because the war is being made in the areas of
Fifth Schedule. This heckles the rights of Gram Sabha as per PESA.
This is violation of international judicial rules and the rules of
chapter of indigenous people of the UNO.
Our war of resistance-People's War is just. This is in the interest
of the majority people. Our party is working in the interests of the
entire oppressed people. We are fighting back the unjust war of the
government. We are resisting the war in the interests of the broad
masses, to stop environmental destruction and to protect the
resources for future generations apart from protecting the tribal
people. People, Mass Organisations, Party, PLGA, RPCs are
resisting the war in order to protect and strengthen the RPCs and
jal-jungle-zameen-survival- identity-self-respect. We will not
surrender, we are prepared to make sacrifices to accomplish
revolution. On the contrary the police, Para-Military and Army forces
are making war against their people in the interests of exploiters
such as Ambani and Adani. Unjust war never won in history. Even if it
won it was temporary. People will gain the ultimate victory.
The CC of our Party appeals to the democrats, judicial experts, human
rights organisations in the country and the world, organisations in
solidarity to People's War in India, ILPS to intensify protest
movement against the rising attack of Brahmanic Hindutva Fascist Modi
government on the revolutionary movement going on in the leadership
of our party and the movements of the oppressed classes, sections and
nationalities and democratic rights and especially the ongoing and
proposed heavy drone attacks. It appeals to take up protest programs
on the occasion of international Action Week from September 13"‘
to 19"‘ in front of the Indian embassies in the respective
countries together with the workers and other toiling masses,
employees, intellectuals and journalists of Indian background.
Demands
1. Release political prisoners unconditionally
2. Put a stop to the ongoing, proposed heavy drone attacks unleashed
by the Modi government and the Chhattisgarh state government in the
areas of the movement.
3. All those in jail on cases of social and political struggles must
be provided the status of political prisoner.
4. Annul UAPA, AFSPA and security Acts in various states. Sedition
Act must be removed from Indian Criminal Code. All those arrested
under these Acts must be released unconditionally.
5. Put a stop to the violation of rights of the prisoners, especially
the political prisoners and woman prisoner and the suppression and
atrocities on them.
6. Jail manuals must be reformed. Conditions in prisons must be
bettered as per the manuals.
7. Put a stop to the fascist ‘SAMADHAN'-Prahar offensive.
8. Put a stop to suppress the voice of those who speak against
injustice.
9. Stop suppressing the struggles of the indigenous people to protect
the natural resources of the country.
10. Stop the cruel suppression of the government mercenary forces on
the national liberation movements of oppressed nationalities such as
of Kashmir, Nagaland, Asom and Manipur.
11. Stop Brahmanic Hindutva fascist and Manuist offensive on workers,
peasants and other oppressed classes, students-youth, Professors,
religious minorities, Dalit people, women and other oppressed sections.
Abhay
Spokesperson
Central Committe
