Condemn the Arrest of Com Batakrushna Swain , Leader of Upakulia Jami o Jungle Surakhya Samiti
Comrade Batakrushna Swain , Convenor of Upakulia Jami o Jungle Surakhya Samiti was arrested on 16th August while he was returning to his village after participating in a group meeting of the samiti . A group of lads looking like hooligans caught him on the way and taken away . Later it was informed that these hooligans like fellows were members of special squad of Puri Police . In the year 2015 he was also arrested and booked under National Security Act besides a number of other fabricated cases . Puri police has been after him for a long time as he leads the land rights movement of landless people . Upakulia Jami o jungle surakhya samiti under his leadership opposes the govt projects like Samuka tourism project and proposed Airport project in Sipasarubali area of Puri district . A group of people lead by previous land owners support the project and continuously press the police to arrest him .
Few months eariler Govt of Odisha came with a proposal to build an Airport at Sipasarubali mouza of Puri district . It is this land which has been in possession of local village poor people for the last eleven years by ousting a numbers of land Mafia . Instead of giving right to the landless people , Govt want to hand over it to corporate capitalist in the name of Samukha Tourism Project and Airport .
Here it is noted that the Airport project is not only economically unviable but also disastrous for environment . Govt still manages the international route from Bhubaneswar Airport with heavy subsidies ( Rs 240 million per annum ), that to a single route and also to a single air operator ‘ Air Asia ’. Here the rich people are subsidized on poor people ’ s tax . So another international Airport at Puri is ridiculous . It seems that the airport will be built on PPP mode and later will be handed over to Adani like Corporates . The fate of the airport will going to be
October - 2021 like 25 airports recently Govt of India decideded to monitise . ( privatise ).
This is a method of accumulation of capital by displacing the local people from their common resources such as land , water , forest and at the cost of environment and ecology .
Coastal forest and sand dunes are today the most important for reducing the impact of cyclone . But the ruling class want to destroy it undermining the lives and livelihood of the people .
Against the arrest of Com Batakrushna , demonstrations were
Com Balan , Leader of Dharmapuri Peoples ’ Struggle against Feudal and Caste Oppression
About 150 people attended the commemoration programme jointly organized by the CPI ( M-L ) ( People ’ s War ) ( Bolshevik ), CPI ( M-L ), CPI ( ML ) SOC ’ s , People ’ s Power , the Revolutionary Student Youth Front , the Tamil Nadu Communist Party ( Marxist- Leninist-Maoist ideology ) and the Tamil National People ’ s Front .
About 70 people , including a few groups led by Comrade Tamilvanan , attended the programme . A group led by Comrade AMK attended the Peoples Democratic youth Front commemoration programme . About 200 people took part in it . Comrade Sushilan , Member of the Central Committee , CPI ( M-L ) addressed the CPI ( M-L ) programme and Comrade M . Gunalan , Secretary of State addressed the function .
Do not sell public property ! Eliminate fascism !!
The comrades commemorated Appu-Balan this year under the slogan of “ All M-L revolutionaries vow to unite all the left democratic forces ”. As soon as the ceremony was concluded , the police crackdown is as it was last
held at Puri , Bhanjanagar , Berhampur , Bhubaneswar .
A big rally and protest meeting was also held on 3rd September at Tehsil office Brahmgiri , Puri against the arrest and it is also demanded to release him unconditionally . Noted Environmentalist Prafull Samantray , Com Srikanta Mohanty leader of AIKMKS , Com Narendra Mohanty Convenor , campaigned against fabricated cases . Com Niranjan Mohanty AIKMKS , Basudev Das , AIKMKS , Com Mohan Naidu and others addressed the rally .
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year . While the messages of the speakers did not reach the public due to the failure of the loudspeaker , the procession carrying flags along with posters , notices and banners were very well received by all . ‘ Class Struggle ’, September 2021 magazine was widely distributed to all comrades on the occasion of Comrade Balan ’ s commemoration programme .
Comrade Periyannan , M . J . E . M ., presided over the commemoration programme . Comrade
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