1986 , all these years no law-andorder problem had arisen . By naming the land problems of adivasi area as law-and-order issue , in order to protect the landlords who grabbed the lands illegally the police camp was started . For its maintenance a great amount of money was spent . The police tortured the adivasis . No law-andorder problem was there when the adivasis acquired rights on their lands and when they dealt with the problems according to the directions of the Sangham . The people used to solve their petty quarrels before the elders of the village in a gram panchayat . There are very few occasions in all these years when people approached the Devipatnam police station . The Extension of the Movement from 1990 to 2004 :
The activities of this period are already sufficiently in a printed form . Let us see the main activities .
Comrade Somayya , who played an important and key role in the organisation of Kondamodalu girijan movement died of illness on 18 th March 1991 . He steadily worked in the area from 1969 to 1991 at the grass root level . His funeral and the first death anniversary in 1992 , launching of a martyr column and subsequently his death anniversaries up to March 18 th 2022 were celebrated most successfully .
From the decade of 1990 onwards the Kondamodalu movement spread with leaps and bounds and this extension of the movement continued in various phases according to the policy decisions taken by the Sangham .
By 1977 there were activities in many areas of the agency of East Godavari district . By the 80s as the movement is extending it became necessary to concentrate more on Kondamodalu . Though there was an atmosphere of clashes with other revolutionary forces working around Kondamodalu we decided not to organise in the areas where
March - 2024 other revolutionary organisations are working . During 1980s in light of people ’ s path , without extending in and around Kondamodalu we selected areas where other revolutionary forces were absent . We started working in some areas of Vizianagaram and Koraput districts . Work was taken up in Makkuva and Komarada areas which were not touched by Srikakulam movement . Before that a concentrated work was taken up in Koraput , Malkangiri areas . Within a short period , the movement around Duggeru and Koraput yielded good results .
The hill area at the back of Godavari in the agency of East Godavari is named as area of Gandi . As some revolutionaries are working in that area , we decided not to organise our Sangham there except doing propaganda about our political stand on the problems of people there .
Observing the achievements of Kondamodalu movement from 1982 people of different areas invited the Sangham to work in their areas . Particularly the adivasis of Godavari coast and East and West Godavari district agency decided in their village level assemblies to welcome the Sangham . All these villages are influenced by the inspiration with cooperation given by the Sangham of Kondamodalu in 1969 . Because of repression and because of the splits made by landlords these villages did not respond to the call of Sangham previously . But now after observing the success of the Sangham they too began to support it . By 1988 the activities of the Sangham were started in Thutigunta , Thellavaram , Manturu etc villages of West Godavari district . Slowly from Venkatareddygudem and villages near Polavaram came into contact with the Sangham . The struggles for land spread slowly in all these areas .
By 1994-95 the Sangham spread its activities from Dondapudi to Kunkala , and Manugopula agency villages . During 1930-50 decades girijan movement was organised in these villages . From 1948 to 1951 adivasis of this area fought for lands against zamindars . Those movements were fizzled out then because of the splits and repression . The adivasi elders , who in their youth participated in the then struggles - Kokkera Chandraiah , Karakam Ramayya garu went on foot to Kondamodalu and met Comrade Viswam . They invited the Sangham to their area promising that they would organise it and protect it . Thus , those villages again started the land struggles that the Agency Girijan Sangham was waging . The agitation of the people protesting the grabbing of land by the zamindar in Manugopula was attacked by the police and landlords and as a result on November 4 th , 1997 Com Karam Parvathi became a Martyr . The land struggle continued further after the firing and repression . In order to achieve this much of success and to create a committed leadership for revolutionary programme they had to make serious efforts for 40 years .
The Girijana Sangham of Kondamodalu cherished everyone who wanted to get back their lands and were ready to fight against the atrocities of the landlords . The Sangham supplied necessary seeds and activists to those who were willing to cultivate the lands . Kondamodalu girijans never displayed selfish attitude that ‘ our lands belong to us ’. They knew very well that only by building several Kondamodalu movements only their struggle would be fruitful and it is going to be a long-drawn struggle to keep their lands in their hands . With this understanding they lent their support to all those tribals and non-tribals who were in troubles within a radius of 100 kilometres of Kondamodalu . In Chintur area there are many villages of Gutti Koya tribes . They are at a distance of
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