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Sodhi Khanna till the last drop of his blood illuminated the torch of

Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and was mascot for peoples Liberation 

In a major anti-Maoist operation in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, a senior Maoist commander identified as Sodhi Kanna was killed during a joint offensive by security forces in the National Park area. Multiple exchanges of fire occurred as security forces moved through the forested terrain in search of these cadres. The combing operation continues across the rugged landscape.

Kanna, held the rank of deputy commander in company No. 02 of PLGA (People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army) battalion No. 01 and was also a CYPM/DVCM (divisional committee member.

His body was recovered from the encounter site, along with a .303 rifle, during a sweep of the area by the joint team comprising DRG (District Reserve Guard) units from Bijapur and Dantewada, the STF, CRPF’s Cobra 202 and 210 battalions, and the Young Platoon.

Sodhi Kanna, symbolised the revolutionary consciousness of the oppressed, was a mascot not merely an individual but epitomising a historical wave of rebellion.

Having origins planted among the Adivasi masses of Bastar. his journey sparked or ignited in the scenario of the struggle against semi-feudal and semi-colonial exploitation, combating the merciless repression of the Indian state, unflinchingly and relentlessly waving the banner illuminating Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.

He emerged from among the most oppressed, the tribal communities whose forests, rivers, and lands have long been looted by mining corporations, backed by the armed machinery of the state. These communities, historically excluded from political power and economic resources, became the backbone

of India’s protracted people’s war, and Sodhi Kanna became one of its finest militants.

From a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist (MLM) perspective, the path of revolution in a country like India must follow the strategy of protracted people’s war, encircling the cities from the countryside. It is in this countryside that Sodhi Kanna grew into a people’s soldier and later, a commander. He was not a mechanical soldier blindly obeying orders, but a conscious political worker moulded in class analysis, grilled in Maoist ideology, and committed to the eradication of the big landlords, the comprador bureaucratic bourgeoisie, and imperialist collaborators.

Sodhi Kanna’s militancy was ignited not from mere seeking of vengeance, but had political roots. It was scientific. Like countless other revolutionaries it was shaped by the Communist Party of India (Maoist), he imbibed that the root of their exploitation was the very structure of Indian capitalism and state power. His choice to resort to taking to arms was not as result of mere indoctrination as the bourgeois media would allege, but because of a clear-cut diagnosis that the Indian state exists to serve ruling class interests, that endanger the survival and dignity of tribal people. Under Kanna's leadership, military resistance was executed not in a terroristic form but as a legitimate instrument of class struggle.

Sodhii played an important part in constructing mass organizations, revolutionary people’s councils, conducted political education in masses, health, and agriculture. He built a breeding ground for revolutionary institutions, to generate an embryo of a new society . Kanna had a long history of involvement in major insurgent activities, including the Tekalgudiyam encounter and the attack on the Dharmaram camp. He was also known to have operated in close coordination with Madvi Hidma and served as a skilled sniper within the PLGA battalion.

Sodhi Kanna has carved a permanent niche in the annals of immortal proletarian heroes. His name showcased or manifested people’s power in motion. In the villages of Dandakaranya, his memory shimmers like an inextinguishable star with his martyrdom a breeding ground for new roses to bloom., to crystallise the New Democratic Revolution.

His memories ly embedded in the heart of every revolutionary. like a living energy in the march toward New Democratic Revolution, toward socialism, and ultimately toward communism.

Harsh Thakor is freelance journalist in touch with the Indian Revolutionary movement and it’ s sympathisers.

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