Report
: Memorial Meeting of Comrade Kovai Eswaran
On July 1 st , 2018, the CPI
(ML) has organized the Memorial
Meeting of Com. Kovai
Eswaran, a veteran comrade
and the Secretary of Tamil Nadu
State Committee of CPI (ML), at
his residence in CIT Nagar,
Chennai. The Comrades
congregated at the venue in the
morning have paid tributes to
the Comrade who departed on
July 1 st , 2017.
The meeting began at 4 pm
with inspiring revolutionary
songs sung by the singers of
Peoples’ Art and Literary Forum.
Com. Chitrarasu has
welcomed the Comrades. Com.
Gunalan from the State
Organising Committee of the
CPI (ML) has presided over the
meeting. In his address, he
recollected the happenings in
the political spectrum and the
peoples’ issues. He explained
how the party in Tamil Nadu
suffered because of the demise
of Com. Eswaran and stressed
that a dedicated work to fulfill
and complete the tasks left
behind by the Comrade alone
can be a fitting tribute to the
departed Comrade. He also
underlined the need to lend all
support to the family of
Comrade Kovai Eswaran.
Com. Kochadai in his
speech has remembered the
days he worked with Comrade
Eswaran. Com. Sivakumar in his
speech has emphasized the
need to make the people
conscious, organize and move
them into struggle against the
Government’s corporate loot
and the anti-people policies. He
said, every one of us miss a
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voracious orator, senior leader and
a guide in the sphere of cultural
movement. Senior Advocate
Sankara Subbu has said that he
is fighting in the Court of law for
attaching Edapaddi as the first
culprit in the Thoothukudi
massacre of 13 people in the police
firing. He also remembered the
days when he along with com.
Eswaran fought in the Peoples’
Civil Liberties Organisation against
the execution of Naxalbari
comrades in the death sentence.
Professor Gangadharan. Advocate
Manoharan spoke in length and
breadth on the fine qualities
represented by comrade Eswaran
in the political as well as personal
life. Com. Thyagu of Tamil National
Liberation Movement said com.
Eswaran’s demise has inflicted an
irreparable loss to the movement.
He also expressed it is not good
to go in for a joint protest action
with the ruling class opposition
parties who pursue the same
policies represented by the party
in power. Com. Veerasami of the
Peoples’ Art and Literary Forum
(MKEK) stressed that it is nessary
to take serious note of the
warnings made by com. Thyagu.
Com. Veeraraghavan, CPI(M), in
his speech said that though he
belonged to a different Party he
was consulting com. Eswaran on
each and every issue of the area
and other people’s issues. Com.
Sundaravinayagam has pointed
out that taking forward the politics
and tasks of the party left behind
by com. Eswaran aggressively will
be the best tribute to com.
Eswaran.
Com. Priya, daughter of com.
Eswaran, in her speech said that
even though they lost their father
the family receives moral
support and help from the party.
She vowed that her family along
with her brother’s family would
continue to work for the
revolution in the footsteps of her
father.
Com. P.jaswantha Rao,
Editor,
Class
Struggle,
recounted his acquaintance with
com. Eswaran and paid rich
tributes to him. He explained the
prevailing political situation in the
country – growing fascisitic
trends in the polity, unbridled
attacks by Hindu communal
forces, growing authoritarian
meddling in the affairs of the
states
by
the
central
government and deteriorating
living and working conditions of
the people. To organize the
people into struggles to change
the existing social system
should be the fitting homage to
the
departed
leader
Com.Eswaran, he said.
Com. Suseelan, the CCM
of CPI (ML) in his speech has
said that the best Communist
qualities, hard work and
dedication represented by com.
Eswaran must be emulated by
one and all.
Finally,
Anuraadha,
granddaughter of Com.
Eswaran, gave the vote of
thanks. She promised to fallow
the ideals and politics of her
grandfather. She thanked all the
participants of the Memorial
meeting.
2000 leaflets and posters
were distributed and pasted in
all the surroundings of CIT
contd. on page 24
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