By 1982 under the leadership of the sangham the Adivasi people entered into the lands . At that time the ruling Indira Gandhi government was planning to enact Forest Conservation Act 1980 . The Agency Girijana Sangham propagated widely that the proposed act is going to be a dangerous noose to girijans . A procession and a public meeting were held in the early rainy season of 1982 in Kondamodalu against the Forest Act . This meeting created political background to Adivasis to enter into the lands .
By the sowing time of 1982 , Adivasis under the leadership of the sangham ploughed and cultivated approximately 240 acres of land . The girijans decided to get back their lands with fighting spirit . In that year the landlords , their touts and pettandars were also active . They too came to a decision that without bloodshed it is not possible to get hold of the lands . They were ready with their plans and conspiracies . They took all precautions politically and physically accordingly . This class contradiction resulted in the attack and firing of the police and landlords in Peddagudem village in Kondamodalu . In the firing Kunjam Ramulu and Madim Lakshmaiah became martyrs . The party leadership made the people ready for struggle . Even before this incident people began to move carrying their traditional weapons . Those who were involved in court cases stopped attending the adjournments . Volunteer squads were created to protect the crops in the lands seized from landlords . The rumours that the landlords would make use of big smoke bombs made the adivasis keep onions with them . As expected , the police entered the Peddagudem village on 29 th November and used tear gas . Girijans were protecting themselves by hiding behind the trees and bushes and attacked the police with their bows and arrows . As the arrows were over Comrade
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Kunjam Rajulu came out from the hiding place and while shooting with a sling , he was shot dead by a bullet . The police took away the corpse of Rajulu with them . Lakshmaiah also received a bullet shot while shooting arrows by standing on the shores of the farm . He was seriously wounded and while taking him to the hospital in Rampachodavaram , on the way he expired . In the last moments of his life , he enthused courage among the comrades and his mother . Those who took the corpse of Lakshmaiah were ready even for arrests . The police stopped all those who reached Rampachodavaram . The leader of this group Comrade Illa Ramireddy and some more youth were arrested and sent to the central jail in Rajahmundry . After post-mortem , the body of Lakshmaiah was handed over to his mother and two elderly people who were not arrested . It was becoming dark at that time . The mother of Lakshmaiah , Bajaaramma , the leader of the sangham Gorre Laxmamma , their relative Madi Siramayya buried Lakshmaiah ’ s body by the side of a canal near Rampachodavaram and returned to Kondamodalu .
Thus , Rajulu and Lakshmaiah became martyrs by showing their adventurous and fighting spirit . While burying the dead body of Lakshmaiah , Bajaaramma and Gorre Laxmamma displayed great mental balance . The ordinary became extraordinary . This is the speciality of people ’ s path .
The incident on November 29 th , 1982 and resistance of people are not accidental . They are the result of intentional political organisational efforts . People had used all kinds of political , organisational and selfdefensive methods that were equal to the level of the movement .
The democratic forces protested the firing in Kondamodalu . A factfinding committee visited the place ; and intellectuals , democrats and fraternal revolutionary organisations condemned the atrocities of the police in Kondamodalu . From 1982 November to September 1985 :
After the firings in 1982 , there were certain political developments in the state . In the elections held in the month of January 1983 Telugu Desam Party came into power for the first time in Andhra Pradesh . But the disputes with landlords and the police in Kondamodalu continued up to August 1985 when an attack was made against Comrade Chintalada Peddireddy .
The Agency Girijana Sangham conference was held on 24 th June 1983 . In that conference a review of the struggles waged hither to was made . It paid tributes to martyrs . It discussed the future programme . A policy to be followed towards nontribal landlords , small scale farmers and landless farmers was formed . The policy of land distribution among the adivasis was finalised . A ceiling was fixed and put into practice in regard to non-tribal big landlords .
On the other hand , the feudal forces continued attacks in one form or other and filed cases in the courts . The police again tried to interfere in favour of landlords . They arrested the women harvesting the black gram crop and put them in the police camp . Protesting these arrests hundreds of women invaded the police camp . They found fault with the police who arrested women who are breast feeding their children and categorically asked the police didn ’ t they suckle milk from their mothers . They demanded the police to arrest them also . The police withdrew the case in the face of the fighting spirit of girijans which continued even after the firings that took place erstwhile . Then the collector entered the field . The collector asked the girijans to leave the 40 acres crop to Ramayamma , the relative of Sivayya Patrudu the owner of 150 acres . After discussion girijans were ready to give the crop of that year . The other small
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