Comprehensive and Scientific Rehabilitation for All People Displaced by Polavaram Call of Speakers in General Council of RCS( AP)
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Comprehensive and Scientific Rehabilitation for All People Displaced by Polavaram Call of Speakers in General Council of RCS( AP)
On August 12 and 13 of 2018, the RCS( AP) has successfully held its State General Council( GC) meeting in Viziangaaram( AP) town.
On the first day, the meeting of GC began with the hoisting of flag of the Sangh and paying of Homage to the Martyrs by Com. S. Jhansi, the State President of RCS( AP).
In the last two years since June 2016 GC meeting, the Sangh lost senior Comrades Khokan Mazumdar, Khudan Mallik, the leaders of Naxalbari Peasant Movement; Com. Kotaiah, the State Secretary, RCS( AP), Com. Soni, the State Asst Secretary, RCS( AP) Com. Muthireddi Sreeramulu, the State Vice President, RCS( AP) and Com. B. Timma Reddy; Bojja Tarakam, a veteran democrat and leader of Dalit movement; Com. B. Guruva Reddy, the leader of T. N. Memorial Trust and Com. Nirmalananda, leader of revolutionary literary movement. Sangh also lost some cadre at the district and local levels. There are people and democrats who were killed in the attacks either by the communal forces or state’ s repressive forces. The GC adopted a resolution presented by com. D. Varma, the State Asst. Secretary paying Homage to all of them.
Com. P. Jaswantha Rao, the Editor, Janashakti, Telugu fortnightly, made an inaugural speech. He said: The policies of exploiting Indian ruling classes had driven the peasants into a serious crisis. In the name of socalled Green Revolution, the rulers had turned India into a vast market for the MNCs to loot the 24 peasants by promoting the use of high yielding seeds, chemical fertilisers, pesticides, tractors and other machinery. All this had inflated the costs of produce, pushed the peasants into the clutches of private money lenders and forced the large number of peasants, especially tenants to commit suicides. The rulers are deliberately turning the agriculture into a worthless affair and thereby peasants are increasingly ruined and alienated from the land. Instead of buying the agricultural produce directly from the peasants at reasonable prices, the rulers are leaving them to the mercy of private market forces. The peasants must demand that all the lands forcibly grabbed from them must be returned. They must put up an organized fight against the policies of the rulers which are displacing the peasants from their lands and intensifying their alienation from the lands.
In his speech, Com. Subodh Mitra, the All India Convenor, AIKMKS, has called upon the RCS( AP) to build a powerful peasant movement in the light of experiences of Telangana armed struggle, Naxalbari and Srikakulam peasant movements. Underlining the significance and relevance of the slogan of“ land to the tiller” even today, he made it clear that the people cannot achieve the real progress in their life without putting an end to the feudal and imperialist exploitation.
Com. S. Jhansi, who presided over this session, pointed out that the rulers are more interested in setting up the companies that are destroying the people’ s lives and the environment while closing down the industries such as jute, sugar and agro-based industries that are in the interests of peasants and workers.
The representatives of various fraternal organizations like Com. Basu Acharya( AIKMKS, West Bengal); Com. Srikant Mohanty( AIKMKS, Odisha); Com. Srihari( AISYCC); Com. K. Baji( PDSO); Com. Ammaji( Stree Vimukti Sanghatana); Com. R. Narayana Rao( AIFTU-N); Com. Jogi Naidu( APTF); Com. Appala Swamy( Kalasi Sangham, Bobbili); Com. C. Mallikarjuna Reddy( Advocate, Karnataka), in their brief messages, wished the success of the GC.
Com. S. Jhansi presented a report on the activities of RCS( AP) since the last GC meeting. The delegates have discussed and adopted the same.
The GC has co-opted 7 Comrades to the State Executive Committee in view of the growing needs of the movement.
The State EC has elected Com. M. S. Naga Raju as the State Secretary and Com. Illa Rami Reddy as the State Vice President of the RCS( AP). This was announced in the GC with enthusiastic clappings.
The G. C. adopted the resolutions on various issues like land, water, tenants rights, rehabilitation of people displaced by the Polavaram, relief to drought affected people; attacks of the BJP and Hindutva forces on people; state repression; ghastly attacks on dalits, women and children, reasonable prices for agricultural produce; India’ s withdrawal from RCEP, against
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