Maoist leader who led the attack in Bijapur-Sukma

[manlion]

An ambush by 400 Maoists which resulted in the martyrdom of 22 jawans in the Bijapur-Sukma district of Chhattisgarh was led by new CPI Maoist leader, Basava Raju, as per a News18 report.

The report also suggests that the most-wanted Maoist commander and leader of the ‘People’s Liberation Guerilla Army’- Hidma, was offered as a bait to the security forces to trap them with little room to escape. This attack in which the Maoists used low-intensity IEDs and rocket launchers and open-fired at the security forces from three sides was guided by Maoist leader, Basava Raju. It is suspected that Hidma was in the vicinity when the security forces were ambushed, but he was not a part of the attack.

Basava Raju’s modus operandi is considered to be lethal where he focuses on hiding and killing rather than close encounters. The past few attacks in Jharkhand and Dantewada witnessed pressure bomb explosions, a tactic used by Basava Raju to execute killings. “The pressure bombs earlier used one or two kgs of explosives, now 7-8kg is being used. The intention is to kill and not just deter forces from going inside Maoist strongholds,” Dr Abhishek Pallav, SP Dantewada told News18

As per the report, in an article published in the party’s theoretical organ “People’s War” in 2013, Basava Raju laid down the roadmap for a revolution. The report read, “If we can mobilize the peasantry on a vast scale and militantly into an armed agrarian revolution to completely solve the land issue in our country, we will acquire the most essential basic condition and preconditions to defeat all our enemies and complete the New Democratic Revolution.”

A resident of Jiyannapeta village in Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh, Basava Raju holds a BTech degree from the Regional Engineering College, Warrangal. In 1987, Basava Raju underwent training in the forests of Bastar from a group of former fighters of the Sri Lankan Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in ambush tactics and the handling of gelatin.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1378954161887252480

Latest News Updates

Latest Updates - News, World, Sports, Politics, Entertainment, Business, Movies, Bollywood, Hollywood, Songs etc.

thestickypost.com

 

[gulli]

Kill him n his alike with there body disposed to vultures for feast.. No half measures..

 

[manlion]

Hidma, the bait served to trap the indian security forces

 

[manlion]

Maoists gatherings in Chattisgarh

Peoples Liberation Guerilla Army (Maoist)

 

[SpaceMan18]

Maoists gatherings in Chattisgarh
View attachment 731308

Peoples Liberation Guerilla Army (Maoist)

View attachment 731309

YOU GUYS LET COMMIES LIVE ?

This is crazy

 

[fitpOsitive]

The problem with such conflicts is, although it's a political issue, it's the soldiers who have to give their lives for it.

 

[manlion]

YOU GUYS LET COMMIES LIVE ?

This is crazy

Maoists will live as long as upper caste landlords rape tribal women and their forest resources.

its a revolt by the landless lower caste peasants and tribals against the Indian government, which serves the upper castes and Gujarati baniya corporates

 

[Windjammer]

Why Maoists are Bigger Terror Menace than the Pakistan-sponsored Terrorism in J&K - News18

Maoists killed 2,799 security forces personnel in the period between 1999 and 2019 or an average annual killing of 132 security forces personnel.

www.news18.com

 

[Baibars_1260]

Wow !
They even have their own website .

CPI(maoist) Archives - Redspark

www.redspark.nu

Death Toll Of Security Personnel Killed By PLGA During Encounter In Sukma District Rises To 22

 

[jamahir]

The problem with such conflicts is, although it's a political issue, it's the soldiers who have to give their lives for it.

Which is why I think the Naxalites should be invited for dialogue by the Supreme Court. Or even the central government.

In the South American country of Columbia the similarly long-fighting FARC left-wing guerrillas had dialogue with the government. The Columbian president got a Nobel Peace Prize for this as well.

 

[Baibars_1260]

Which is why I think the Naxalites should be invited for dialogue by the Supreme Court. Or even the central government.

In the South American country of Columbia the similarly long-fighting FARC left-wing guerrillas had dialogue with the government. The Columbian president got a Nobel Peace Prize for this as well.

Jamahir,
This the "dialogue" that happened in the past .

Why targetting the Naxal is the basic dharma of the Indian Republic

The democratic 'idea of India' has a lie in its very foundation, which makes the Naxal/Maoist the 'perfect enemy'.

www.dailyo.in

 

[jamahir]

Jamahir,
This the "dialogue" that happened in the past .

Why targetting the Naxal is the basic dharma of the Indian Republic

The democratic 'idea of India' has a lie in its very foundation, which makes the Naxal/Maoist the 'perfect enemy'.

www.dailyo.in

Yes, sad that was the result that happened. And the original Naxalbari revolt happened against what ? Against feudalism which the Independent Indian Establishment should have eradicated.

And this Wikipedia page has :

In July 1971, Indira Gandhi took advantage of President's rule to mobilise the Indian Army against the Naxalites and launched a colossal combined army and police counter-insurgency operation, termed "Operation Steeplechase," killing hundreds of Naxalites and imprisoning more than 20,000 suspects and cadres, including senior leaders. The paramilitary forces and a brigade of para commandos also participated in Operation Steeplechase. The operation was choreographed in October 1969, and Lt. General J.F.R. Jacob was enjoined by Govind Narain, the Home Secretary of India, that "there should be no publicity and no records" and Jacob's request to receive the orders in writing was also denied by Sam Manekshaw.

This killing of the Naxalites was like the anti-communist genocide in Indonesia during 1965-66. Maybe Indira Gandhi was inspired by it. The Indian forces were killing fellow Indian peasants and tribals and not the feudals.

Your linked article said that under the Congress-led UPA alliance government Naxalism / Maoism was declared the greatest enemy of the Indian state. Really ? Did the Congress not learn since the 1960s ?

In this my thread / article is :

Sukhi Lala generically was the moneylender-land grabber in the 1950s movie Mother India. He also appears as the land shark-zamindar in Bimal Roy’s Do Beegha Zameen, and as decadent Hari Babu in Ganga Jamuna. Sukhi Lala played the stock markets in Raj Kapoor’s Shri 420, and sold adulterated medicines in Nutan’s Anari. In Zia Sarhadi’s Footpath, Dilip Kumar underscored the evil of stock markets, derisively called satta bazaar in Nehru’s India. Indian peasants suffered Sukhi Lala’s greed and occasionally revolted violently against the excesses. Dilip Kumar’s Ganga and Sunil Dutt’s Birju would be jailed or killed in India today as Maoists.

 

[Baibars_1260]

Yes, sad that was the result that happened. And the original Naxalbari revolt happened against what ? Against feudalism which the Independent Indian Establishment should have eradicated.

And this Wikipedia page has :

This killing of the Naxalites was like the anti-communist genocide in Indonesia during 1965-66. Maybe Indira Gandhi was inspired by it. The Indian forces were killing fellow Indian peasants and tribals and not the feudals.

Your linked article said that under the Congress-led UPA alliance government Naxalism / Maoism was declared the greatest enemy of the Indian state. Really ? Did the Congress not learn since the 1960s ?

In this my thread / article is :

Jamahir,

The very first anti-feudal struggle was in Telengana from 1946-1951

This was right in the middle of the communal carnage during Partition and the annexation of the Nizam's Hyderabad State

Any left wing revolution is always countered by inciting communal violence. The massacres in Hyderabad after the fall of the Nizam's state was the attempt made to drown a popular people's movement in blood.

One of the reasons India intervened in Pakistan's Civil War, was because as of July 1971 there was a fear that the Naxalite movement in West Bengal India, would link up with the Civil War in East Pakistan . There were left wing elements also, in the Civil war brewing across the border.

 

[Baibars_1260]

Yes, sad that was the result that happened. And the original Naxalbari revolt happened against what ? Against feudalism which the Independent Indian Establishment should have eradicated.

And this Wikipedia page has :

This killing of the Naxalites was like the anti-communist genocide in Indonesia during 1965-66. Maybe Indira Gandhi was inspired by it. The Indian forces were killing fellow Indian peasants and tribals and not the feudals.

Your linked article said that under the Congress-led UPA alliance government Naxalism / Maoism was declared the greatest enemy of the Indian state. Really ? Did the Congress not learn since the 1960s ?

In this my thread / article is :

Liked your post below:

The revenge of Sukhi Lala: Congress revival hope lives on

JAWED NAQVI
The writer is Dawn’s correspondent in New Delhi
PublishedAug 28, 2019, 7:51 am IST
UpdatedAug 28, 2019, 7:51 am IST

Dilip Kumar’s Ganga and Sunil Dutt’s Birju would be jailed or killed in India today as Maoists.

Rahul Gandhi’s sharp criticism of Narendra Modi’s wily games in Kashmir deserves an assessment of his politics, which may not be unrelated to his much-discussed Nehru-Gandhi lineage. (Photo: Pritam bandyopadhyay)

The flag of Jammu & Kashmir, which was taken down from the Srinagar Secretariat over the weekend, carried the symbol of a plough. The Congress party’s election symbol in 1952 under Jawaharlal Nehru was two bullocks in harness — do baelon ki jodi.

In a monsoon-fed agricultural economy, both symbols represented the productive and political power of the peasant. In a 1958 TV interview with American journalist Arnold Michaelis, Nehru spoke of differences between the Muslim League and the Congress over land reforms, which the latter was committed to in independent India.

When Nehru became president of the All India States Peoples Conference (AISPC) at Udaipur in January 1946, he got Sheikh Abdullah elected vice-president. They were both committed to land reforms, and AISPC, which was a Congress-backed body that worked to nudge princely states to become part of the future India, was equally determined to uproot feudalism after independence.

This was a quandary Jammu & Kashmir ruler Hari Singh faced. He resented Nehru and Abdullah as socialists, but may not have seen a great future for himself in Muslim Pakistan either. Moreover, the disputed Instrument of Accession he signed described him as “Jammu Kashmir Naresh ani Tibet Desh Adhipaty” (Jammu & Kashmir ruler and sovereign of Tibet nation).

It got Sheikh Abdullah into trouble when he met Chinese premier Zhou Enlai in Algiers in 1965, an alleged indiscretion that prompted his arrest upon return. It is a Hindutva canard that Sardar Patel muscled 560 plus princely states into joining India. Pressure mounted on the monarchs when Nehru declared in his 1946 presidential address at the AISPC that those princely states that refuse to merge with India and join the Constituent Assembly would be considered hostile states. This was the background in which Sukhi Lala had to earn his keep in a new India. Who was Sukhi Lala?

Sukhi Lala generically was the moneylender-land grabber in the 1950s movie Mother India. He also appears as the land shark-zamindar in Bimal Roy’s Do Beegha Zameen, and as decadent Hari Babu in Ganga Jamuna. Sukhi Lala played the stock markets in Raj Kapoor’s Shri 420, and sold adulterated medicines in Nutan’s Anari. In Zia Sarhadi’s Footpath, Dilip Kumar underscored the evil of stock markets, derisively called satta bazaar in Nehru’s India. Indian peasants suffered Sukhi Lala’s greed and occasionally revolted violently against the excesses. Dilip Kumar’s Ganga and Sunil Dutt’s Birju would be jailed or killed in India today as Maoists.

Manmohan Singh called Maoists his biggest security threat, but offered no comment about why the peasants were committing suicide in thousands following his pro-Sukhi Lala economic policies in 1991. India’s finance minister recently flaunted the bahi-khata cover, the moneylender’s cash register, perhaps signalling who rules India today.

Gandhiji had many Sukhi Lalas as friends who financed the Congress. He saw in them the future trustees of India. Nehru who was a better student of history took a different view of the business class his political guru was enamoured of. His election symbol of do baelon ki jodi captured an affinity with the peasants, Sukhi Lala’s prey from time immemorial.

Ironically, it was Gandhi who had dispatched Nehru to cut his political teeth among the rural masses of Uttar Pradesh. It was in Rae Bareli from across the Sai river that the future prime minister watched police shooting at unarmed peasants at the behest of the local Sukhi Lala.

Rahul Gandhi’s sharp criticism of Narendra Modi’s wily games in Kashmir deserves an assessment of his politics, which may not be unrelated to his much-discussed Nehru-Gandhi lineage. The lineage in a nutshell is a challenge to Sukhi Lala. Nehru jailed the tallest of the business tycoons. Indira Gandhi nationalised their banks. Rajiv Gandhi directed them to lay off the backs of the Congress workers. Rahul may have a cleaner slate to work with after leading Lala acolytes in the Congress jumped the ship over Kashmir.

Look at it this way. Modi is sworn to make India a Congress-free country for a reason. But the developments of recent days have shown, like it or not, that there is no Congress party without the leadership of the Gandhi family. Now consider a vengeful possibility. A parliamentary act protects the family of the assassinated former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi with the highest grade of security of the Special Protection Group. Given the hatred whipped up against them by India’s new rulers in league with a conniving media, it would not be difficult to immobilise them (from a Srinagar visit, for example) by stripping them of their security in the name of economic prudence.

On the other hand, such a move could spur the newly cleansed party to come into its own. The waters are being tested on both sides. Sukhi Lala is drooling.

By arrangement with Dawn

The article by Dawn refers to a bygone era. Bollywood was heavily left of Center and many Bollywood actors were also members of the
Indian People's Theatre Association or IPTA ( Link) a cultural left wing front for communists across a wide spectrum, but mostly from the mainstream CPI.
Amongst those who were "sympathizer non-formal members" of the IPTA were Raj Kapoor, Balraj Sahni, A.K.Hangal, Utpal Dutt, Sunil Dutt, Mac Mohan,
Which is why in the 1950s a slew of anti-establishment, anti-feudal movies were made.
As this was before my time I don't really know what exactly the storyline of these movies were so I can't relate to the Dawn article but doing some research I found out that the cultural scene in India back then was very different from what it is now.

 

[jamahir]

Amongst those who were "sympathizer non-formal members" of the IPTA were Raj Kapoor, Balraj Sahni, A.K.Hangal, Utpal Dutt, Sunil Dutt, Mac Mohan

I had read somewhere that Mac Mohan was an educated man but did not know he was associated with IPTA.

About Balraj Sahni this was my post to you.