The Red Menace

Yagnasri · Post by **Yagnasri** » 03 Jul 2010 07:25

Yes this time it seems to be not so one sided. But we hear no naxal deaths. May be their frinds in Media did not want publish them

skaranam · Post by **skaranam** » 03 Jul 2010 09:55

Top Maoist leader gunned down in Andhra Pradesh

In a major blow to the Maoists, their top leader and spokesperson Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad was killed in a gunfight with police in Andhra Pradesh Friday, police claimed.

There seems to a glorification campaign in AP local TV Channels about Azad death. Channels like Studio N, TV 5, Mahaa TV are in the play with their incoherant anchors and reporters.

derkonig · Post by **derkonig** » 03 Jul 2010 12:23

Even ToI is putting him on the pedestal of a martyr...

abhishek_sharma · Post by **abhishek_sharma** » 03 Jul 2010 14:01

Azad killing to set off Dantewada-type attack?

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 122194.cms

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 03 Jul 2010 15:22

a maoist couple from chattisgarh was arrested in khammam distt today morning.

skaranam · Post by **skaranam** » 03 Jul 2010 15:27

Top Maoist leader gunned down in Andhra Pradesh

In a major blow to the Maoists, their top leader and spokesperson Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad was killed in a gunfight with police in Andhra Pradesh Friday, police claimed.

The shootout took place near Jogapur in Adilabad district, about 300 km from here.

Another Maoist guerrilla, who is yet to be identified, was also killed. Police also recovered an AK-47, a 9mm pistol and two kit bags from the scene of the gunfight.

It is now being reported that the order Maoist is a journalist by name "Hem Chandra Pandey", working for the media outlets called "Nai Duniya" and "Rashtriya Sahara".

Is this guy another 'Nakeeran" reporter?

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 03 Jul 2010 15:58

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naiduniya

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 03 Jul 2010 18:01

skaranam wrote: It is now being reported that the order Maoist is a journalist by name "Hem Chandra Pandey", working for the media outlets called "Nai Duniya" and "Rashtriya Sahara".

Is this guy another 'Nakeeran" reporter?

Telegraph id's him as Sahdev

Another guerrilla, Sahdev, who had apparently come to escort Azad to the Dandakaranya forests, too was killed. The police claim to have seized an AK-47, a 9mm pistol and two kit bags.

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100703/j ... 641282.jsp
With too many nom de guerres for these mards, HCP could well be yet another alias.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 03 Jul 2010 18:03

is varavara rao == gaddar ?

Suppiah · Post by **Suppiah** » 03 Jul 2010 18:12

Those are two different eye-gouger, mass murderer puppets. One is a intellectual puppet and the other wears no shirt...both get invited to meetings organised by 'progressive writers' (like a recent one in Mangalore) who are puppets of Stalinist rapist goons, all being part of one big red family...

skaranam · Post by **skaranam** » 03 Jul 2010 19:07

Stan_Savljevic wrote:
skaranam wrote: It is now being reported that the order Maoist is a journalist by name "Hem Chandra Pandey", working for the media outlets called "Nai Duniya" and "Rashtriya Sahara".

Is this guy another 'Nakeeran" reporter?
Telegraph id's him as Sahdev
Another guerrilla, Sahdev, who had apparently come to escort Azad to the Dandakaranya forests, too was killed. The police claim to have seized an AK-47, a 9mm pistol and two kit bags.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100703/j ... 641282.jsp
With too many nom de guerres for these mards, HCP could well be yet another alias.

Stan:
Exactly.

It is true, it was reported as "Sahadev" earlier in the day. However, TV reports are saying that the AP Police have identified his as "Hem Chandra Pandey" a journalist. Infact, family of "Hem Chandra Pandey" are expected to be in Hyd today evening (03/07/2010) for body identification.

Police admit journalist too was killed in Azad encounter

Flash: As reported by TV9
Wife of HCB, Ms. Babita has indicated that HCB is a freelance journalist and not a Maoist. HCB told his wife that he is traveling to Nagpur. There has been no contact with HCB since June 30

Now comes the confession:
HCB alias Jitender is a Maoist and a Zonal Committee Member (which one ?). This was confirmed by "Uttara Telangana Zonal Committe". Also another Maoist by name "Usandi" has indicated that HCB is a journalist and was supposed to interview him at a later date.

Sachin · Post by **Sachin** » 03 Jul 2010 20:40

abhishek_sharma wrote:Azad killing to set off Dantewada-type attack?

Isnt this some kind of scare-mongering tactic? Times of India report seems to be saying that "now you went and killed another Maoist, now expect a backlash. I really doubt on whose side ToI actually is.

Muppalla · Post by **Muppalla** » 03 Jul 2010 21:33

Singha wrote:is varavara rao == gaddar ?

Both are Naxal proxies. Varavara Rao is naxal intellectual who was arrested several times in the past and I do not have a clue how he is not booked under any law. Gaddar is also similar but a poet who writes mostly naxal friendly.

Muppalla · Post by **Muppalla** » 03 Jul 2010 21:34

BTW - the journalist killing seems to have touched a raw nerve. I predict a trend for the future. All the dhothi roys also need to watch their back.

skaranam · Post by **skaranam** » 04 Jul 2010 08:04

Was the man killed alongside Azad an innocent scribe?

Senior police officers in Hyderabad said Hem Chandra Pandey alias Jeetendra was a Maoist underground cadre and member of the Uttarakhand district committee. He was part of the Maoist movement for about ten years.

Pandey not involved in Maoist activities in Pithoragarh{But he was involved in other parts of the country}:police

Hem Chandra Pandey, who is said to have been killed in an encounter with Andhra Pradesh police along with leading Maoist leader Cherokuri Rajkumar yesterday, was not involved in any Maoist activities in Pithoragarh district from where he hails, police said today.

"Hem Chandra Pandey was a Left activist and involved in the program of CPI(ML) 3 years ago and after he left the district no whereabout of him came to our notice", said Nilesh Aanad Bharre, SP Pithoragarh.

‘Man killed in encounter of Maoist leader was a scribe’

At a briefing held at the Press Club of India in Delhi, the woman, whose friends identified her as Babita, said the man killed by the Andhra Pradesh Police was her husband Hem Raj Pandey.

“My husband wrote for Nai Duniya, Rashtriya Sahara, and Dainik Jagran…he was honest, innocent… he was killed because he was a Leftist…,” Babita said. She last heard from her husband on June 30, she said.

Sources in the Andhra Pradesh Police, however, denied there was truth in her claims.

“We have checked with the Sahara group as well as Nai Duniya. He was not on their rolls. He was not even a freelancer for them,” a senior police official involved in anti-Maoist operations said. “He was underground for the past four years.”

Nai Duniya and Rashtriya Sahara managements also denied any links with Pandey.

“We were upset when we heard Azad had been killed... but never imagined my husband would have died too,” Babita said and added she lived in Uttarakhand but was unable to tell where Pandey used to stay.{So we need to check her antecedents completely. In the Press breifing she gave with "Press Club of India" backgroud, one of the person identified was Mr. Saibaba. Mr. Saibaba is associated with RDF (Revolutionary Democratic Front) - a group which has "dhoti" as an esteemed member. Looks like we hit the sweet spot}

Several news channels reported late on Saturday that the Northern Region Bureau of the CPI(Maoist) had claimed Pandey was in fact their zonal commander.

Yagnasri · Post by **Yagnasri** » 04 Jul 2010 17:42

Both of them Naxals yar. The very fact that so called Rights activists are fast to react is the proof we need. In AP naxals have heavyly infiltrated in to teh press TV and also movies. In most of the movies Police are shown in a very bad light and naxals are always shown as heros. I do not remember even a single telugu movie which is cretical of the naxals.

Comming to Gaddar he was an ex bank employee (Canara Bank) and his name is Ramakrishana. Now he is a peoples singer (GOK what it means). Varavara Rao seems to be retired lectureer or some thing like that. I am not sure. His name is closely assosiated with VIRASAM that is Viplava Rachaitala Sangham which is a group of over ground naxals calling themselves as poets. They peoms if you can call them are all rubbish and great insult to the Telugu litarature.

One good thing seems to be happening. AP police are now actively following up naxal leaders from AP and bumping them off. All for the good of the nation.

Muppalla · Post by **Muppalla** » 04 Jul 2010 18:37

This news report is a keeper as in BR this thread is going to live until the menace is eradicated. There are several names and relations in this article. We can track each of the name when they meet the bullet. The scary part is there are many overground Naxals in the form of some rights' movements.

I only see a solution to this menace if all the Naxal sympathizers in AP are bumped off (I don't care to be politically correct) or neutralized. Fighting in WB, Orissa and Chattisgargh is only defensive but it is important to do some real justice to all in AP. It is no more at HIV level but full blown AIDS level in AP. The AP police has good information and media also has the clue to put a hierarchy and family trees of these vermin. The government should comeout with all the details and put a huge money (bring alive or dead) on the heads of these top-honchos. Greyhounds will do the rest and they will buy some houses for themselves afterwards.

Azad, a man with an adventurous streak

HYDERABAD: It is seldom that Maoists feel the need to communicate with the outside world. When they do, it invites a lot of flashbulbs, bytes and media hype. But Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad was different.

Since he was party’s official spokesperson, Azad acted as frontman to Maoist chief Ganapathi and dealt with international media also. “He believed it’s neither the gun nor the pen which is powerful. He always felt man is more powerful to bring about any change in society,” recalls Nellutla Venugopal, who last met Azad at Regional Engineering College-Warangal in 1978.

He was much in news during the non-stop media hype about his whereabouts on March 20 after the encounter of Maoist leader Sakhamuri Apparao in Nallamala forests on March 12. Azad was very articulate and his English language skills were superb. “I saw the spark in him way back in 1978. He was a dynamic leader and a brilliant speaker,” says K G Kannabiran, president of People’s Union for Civil Liberties. Azad alias Parimal alias Prasanth alias Madhu alias Uday alias Gangadhar was always a man with a streak of adventurism.

Though he belonged to a rich landlord family in the mango belt of Nuzvid mandal in Krishna district, he fought for the oppressed. Recalling an incident, C Bhaskar Rao, general secretary, Organisation for Protection of Democratic Rights (OPDR), says: “When two Andhra University research scholars were mowed down by a bus (RTC was not in government hands then) in Vizag in 1979, he staged protests for nationalisation of RTC.” As an aside, Rao says Azad even planned to place boulders on railway tracks at Simhachalam to disrupt train services and force the authorities to bring RTC under government sector. “Such was his commitment to a cause,” he says.

Apart from Mao and Kondapalli Seetharamaiah, who built the CPI(ML)-People’s War Group in early 70s, Naxal leader Surapaneni Janardhan (killed in a 1975 encounter) was a huge inspiration for Azad. He was a student leader in Warangal REC between 1973-78. While doing his M Tech at Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, he was made the state president of Radical Students Union. He went underground during 1980-81. He was arrested and released in 1983. Azad rejoined the movement and since then, had been eluding the police.

Complete emancipation of the masses and rejection of imperialist forces is what he stood for, revolutionary poet Varavara Rao says. The student revolt was a source of inspiration for him, many of them from upper caste families (Azad himself was a Kamma). “The seed of rebellion to transform the lives of the poor was sown around the time when he was doing his B Tech,” Bhaskar Rao says.

Though he didn’t play a role in guerrilla warfare, he was involved in the party’s movement for 30 years. Azad formed an important part of the Maoist command structure along with Ganapathi and Prasanth Bose. There were strong indications that Azad, 55, could even take over the reins of the party.

“He was dark complexioned and lanky,” Kannabiran recalls. Azad frequently changed his hideouts and most of the times, used to take shelter in urban areas with the help of unarmed sympathizers. He believed that the defence of rights of the tribals cannot be ensured effectively through political and non-violent means,” Sandhya of Progressive Organisation for Women says. Sandhya’s mother and Azad’s mother Cherukuri Karuna are sisters.

Though a non-military member, he always carried an AK-47. He was instrumental in building up the movement in Karnataka and Maharashtra. N Chari, a Maoist sympathizer in Karimnagar, says Namballa Keshav Rao, present Military Commission in-charge of Maoist party, and slain State Committee leader Puli Anjaiah were his batchmates.

His father Rajaiah Chowdary was a rich landlord and even ran a hotel in Hyderabad. “An ever smiling, Azad understood the pulse of the poor,” Sandhya chips in. Azad always said Maoists never blocked the projects that would ameliorate the conditions of the poor. “If they have occasionally blocked the construction of roads, it is to prevent big companies from coming into drain the wealth from tribal areas,” Varavara Rao says quoting Azad.

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 04 Jul 2010 18:57

Muppalla, note these fellows too:

Earlier the members of Revolutionary Writers Association members G Kalyan Rao, Vara Vara Rao, Chalasani Prasad, and popular balladeer Ghaddar, Dalit leader Manda Krishna Madiga, Telugu film actor-director Narayana Murthy and women's activist G Sandhya and many others speaking before the cremation described Azad as the embodiment of revolutionary struggle against the exploitation of the people.

http://news.rediff.com/report/2010/jul/ ... strike.htm

Muppalla · Post by **Muppalla** » 04 Jul 2010 19:12

Stan:

Any news to know if G.Kalyan Rao and G.Sandhya are related (wife-husband?). Sandhya is sister to Azad's mother. I can connect the dots to the level of clan/castes now but I prefer not to write in this thread as it will take away the focus.

One positive thing is that there is no strong leader who is recruited post 1990 yet. All the leaders that we are hearing are those that are created in 70s and 80s. If police can bump-off these leaders, we may find some light at the end of the tunnel and there may be a large scale surrenders after that. I beleive police just need to focus on removing the cream that is extremely ideological and created during 70s and 80s. It is also very important to remove the types of Kannabiran, Vara Vara Rao, Bhaskar Rao etc..

Regarding "Dalit leader Manda Krishna Madiga" attending Azad's funeral confirmed me many doubts that I had. Moaist-Dalit-EJ nexus is complete in India. period. I can personally confirm that 90% of Dalits in AP are EJized but they still maintain names and castes just to avail the reservation facilities.

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 04 Jul 2010 20:06

Muppalla, G Kalyan Rao looks like 60-70 years age (same age-group as Varavara Rao -- born in 1940), see his mugshot here. Seems 65 to me, if you ask me.
http://www.hindu.com/2005/08/22/stories ... 720100.htm

Sandhya goes by the name V. sandhya. There is one other P. Sandhya who is the state secretary of POW. She may be in this picture, may be, see page 4.
http://www.ndwm.org/newsletter/pdfs/vol-16_dec2008.pdf
So what/who is G. Sandhya? Lets guess here. Azad was 55 when he died, his mother could be ~75. So Sandhya could be anywhere between 60-80 (guess). At 80, she is not going to work for POW. Hardly anyone does. Best guess is she is somewhere between 60-75. If she is the same age-group as GKRao, the probability of her being a sister of Ch. Karuna goes down (15 year gap). To my eye, it does nt seem like there is any direct connection, but there could be an activist connection. Kancha Ilaiah has written a glorifying tribute on her on how she was responsible for leading the campaign against drunk men. Seems like an activist streak.

satp may be of help for caste-data, surprisingly.
http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries ... ilians.htm

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 04 Jul 2010 20:30

Maoist propagandoo machinery is calling Hemchandra pandey as Comrade jitender. Now lets see if toI follows up its "doubts" with the official recognition of martyr status.

Suppiah · Post by **Suppiah** » 04 Jul 2010 20:33

Stalinist yellow daily says Maoists claim Azad was shot in fake encounter...not sure who the other scum eliminated is...if that is true, police are paying Maoists back in their own coin, only wish they do the same with Maoist-backers who pretend to be non-violent...but have their hands deeply drenched in blood of innocent people...

skaranam · Post by **skaranam** » 04 Jul 2010 20:35

Muppalla wrote:This news report is a keeper as in BR this thread is going to live until the menace is eradicated. There are several names and relations in this article. We can track each of the name when they meet the bullet. The scary part is there are many overground Naxals in the form of some rights' movements.

Muppalla:

Take a look at this post by Stan
viewtopic.php?p=852193

Information of more members.

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 04 Jul 2010 20:57

skaranam wrote: Information of more members.

Mucho apologies for the self-propagandoo, but here is the updated version.
http://dharma-yuddham.blogspot.com/2010/07/maoists.html

karthik · Post by **karthik** » 04 Jul 2010 21:24

Is there a separate thread on discussing North-East issues? I cant find it anywhere may be i am missing it, can someone post it?

There is a documentary on Naga and Manipur conflict which i like to understand!

Muppalla · Post by **Muppalla** » 04 Jul 2010 21:30

Stan, skaranam : thanks for the info.

The TOI type articles are very important as they give the family life and relations of these scum. Bringing those relations to public domain is extremely important. Publishing such an article means GOI is becoming serious in its business now. I repeat again that Arundhati Roy types now really need to watch their back. We seems to be going back to late 70s and early 80s style operations under the Late CM Jalagam Vengal Rao.

Suppiah wrote:Stalinist yellow daily says Maoists claim Azad was shot in fake encounter...not sure who the other scum eliminated is...if that is true, police are paying Maoists back in their own coin, only wish they do the same with Maoist-backers who pretend to be non-violent...but have their hands deeply drenched in blood of innocent people...

Slain Maoist leader was picked up by sleuths in Nagpur

HYDERABAD/ADILABAD: Maoists spokesperson Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad, who was killed in an alleged encounter, was reportedly picked up by SIB sleuths at Sitabardhi locality in Nagpur on Thursday around 11 am when he came to meet a courier. “Azad was supposed to go with the courier to Dandakaranya region where he was to take classes for the cadre from Friday,’’ Katta Ramachandra Reddy alias Gudsa Usendi, Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee official spokesman said.

However, the district police in Adilabad differ. “Acting on a tip-off that a group of 20-25 Maoists were heading to Adilabad from Maharashtra, we sent a police team for search operations in Wankhidi area. They came across the reds around 10.30 pm on Thursday,’’ Adilabad SP P Pramod Kumar said.

The rebels fired at the police party, which retaliated. The exchange of fire continued till 2 am. “It was early in the morning we recovered two bodies. A surrendered Maoist Sakkubai identified one of the two killed as Azad,’’ Kagaznagar DSP Sashidhar said.

Meanwhile, the AP High Court dismissed a writ plea filed by Maoist sympathizer and Virasam leader Varavara Rao who demanded Azad’s body be brought to Hyderabad and a postmortem done at Osmania hospital. Alleging that Azad was killed in a fake encounter, Varavara Rao said: “After tracking Azad in Nagpur, the police took him to the forests in Adilabad and killed him.’’

Azad was allegedly involved in the killing of Congress MLA Narsi Reddy in Narayanpet in Mahbubnagar on Aug 15, 2005, which led to re-imposition of the ban on the Maoists in AP.

skaranam · Post by **skaranam** » 04 Jul 2010 21:36

Stan_Savljevic wrote: Sandhya goes by the name V. sandhya. There is one other P. Sandhya who is the state secretary of POW. She may be in this picture, may be, see page 4.
http://www.ndwm.org/newsletter/pdfs/vol-16_dec2008.pdf

Stan:

The person in the PDF is V. Sandhya. The President/General Sec/Director of POW. She was working as a State Govt. Employee and resigned from it during NTR govt. This is because she got a warning about her over-indulgence of activities. She was a member of PDSU and later became a member of Janasakthi party. She quit Janasakthi and launched POW.

She now often champions woman's rights and dabbles in the Telangana Movement. This is yet another linkage which proves that the current Telangana movement is pushed by the Maoist Front Orgs. and Sympathizers. She is pretty close to TV9 CEO Mr. Ravi Prakash, who also comes from a leftist govt.

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 04 Jul 2010 22:10

skaranam: why is there a G. Sandhya, a P. Sandhya and a V. Sandhya? Or all of these the same person, using different aliases as situation demands? (Damn, wish we had a picture database to search for these worthies.) That would also be straight from the maoist handbook, but using the same name with different initials is a new thing.

The most recent episode this sandhya character was jumping around was when ND Tiwari got caught. Before that, she had been leading the chorus on how the YSR government could gain cash from selling liquor.

Muppalla · Post by **Muppalla** » 04 Jul 2010 22:18

Stan_Savljevic wrote:skaranam: why is there a G. Sandhya, a P. Sandhya and a V. Sandhya? Or all of these the same person, using different aliases as situation demands? (Damn, wish we had a picture database to search for these worthies.) That would also be straight from the maoist handbook, but using the same name with different initials is a new thing.

The most recent episode this sandhya character was jumping around was when ND Tiwari got caught. Before that, she had been leading the chorus on how the YSR government could gain cash from selling liquor.

Stan:
I beleive there are two Sandhyas. In AP it is very common to put the last name as first initial in the name. For women, the last name changes and hence the initial changes. So Sandhya and karuna are sisters and after marriage karuna got Ch.Karuna as in Cherukuri karuna and Sandhya got G.Sandhya. Both Sandhya and and Karuna may have P or V as their Mother's maiden name which is very difficult to get. These Maoists are very clever to keep their kith and kin away from media even in the days of google.

I still think that Sandhya became G.Sandhya after marriage to G.Kalyan Rao.

If I had power I would have bombed out the entire Panjagutta cremetorium in HYD during this Azad's funeral. It would have wiped out all the frontend (varavara rao, gaddar, kalyan rao, kannabhiram, Bhaskar Rao etc.) of naxals in one scoop.

Muppalla · Post by **Muppalla** » 04 Jul 2010 22:34

I want to salute the Greyhounds and AP police for this achievement.( I wish we have a thumbsup icon) Let the losers call this as fake encounter and I don't give a damn as the result is achieved. There are so many police familes who are widowed and orphaned by these vermin and hence I don't care about the methodology of operation.

The following article is very interesting read. I see AP police just persue the targets in adjoining states at will and there are no administrative issues in the states like Orissa, Maharashtra or Chattisgargh.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article500032.ece

In an interview with The Hindu, Gudsa Usendi, spokesperson of the Dandakarayna Special Zonal Committee of the CPI (Maoist) has questioned the official version of the events leading to the death of CPI (Maoist) Central Committee Spokesperson Azad in an encounter on July 2 in Adilabad, Andhra Pradesh.

“Comrade Azad was picked up by the Andhra Police in Sitabirdi in Nagpur, taken to Adilabad, and shot in cold blood,” Usendi said, “Azad’s partner, Comrade Sitakka, is still missing. We fear that she may have been killed as well.”

According to the Andhra Pradesh police, Azad and another Maoist were killed in a firefight that began at 11:30 pm on July 1 and continued till 2:00 AM on July 2.

In a telephonic interview on the night of June 3, Usendi alleged that the Andhra Pradesh police had tailed Azad for several days prior to the alleged encounter.

According to Usendi, Azad was expected to arrive in the Upper Bastar region of Dandakaranya on July 2 and was to spend a month and a half there. “He was to take a class in Political Economy for our cadre and was going to schedule an interview with BBC’s Hindi radio service,” Usendi said, adding that the BBC was unaware of Azad’s plans.

Sahdev, a Maoist Commander from Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district, was sent to meet Azad in Nagpur and escort him to Dandakaranya.

On June 30, Usendi received a message that Azad had arrived in Nagpur and would meet Sahdev in Nagpur’s Sitabirdi area on July 1 at either 11:30 AM or 1:30 PM. “That was the last message we exchanged,” said Usendi. “Visiting Adilabad was never on the agenda.”

On July 2, the media broke the news of an encounter in which two Maoists were killed, one of whom was identified as Azad. “I immediately thought that the second man must be Sahdev and released the information to the media,” said Usendi.

But the following morning, he learnt that Sahdev had returned to the jungle. “Sahdev went to the rendezvous at both appointed times, but Azad was not there. So we believe that the police picked Azad up late night on June 30 or early on July1,” Usendi said.

Meanwhile, confusion persists regarding the second person killed in the encounter.

While the body has been identified as freelance journalist Hem Chandra Pande, even the CPI (Maoist) is unable to explain why Pande was accompanying Azad. On July 3, a press release issued by the Northern Bureau of the CPI (Maoist) identified Pande as a zonal committee member. However, in a press conference in Delhi, Babita Pande insisted that her husband was not associated with the Maoists and had traveled to Nagpur to cover a story.

On July 4, Gudsa Usendi informed The Hindu of a statement released by CPI (Maoist) Politburo member Comrade Sonu that identified Pande solely as a freelance journalist and alleged that Pande was killed by the police to eliminate all eyewitnesses. “I do not know if Pande was a member of the Northern Bureau,” said Usendi, “It is possible that the July 3 press release [claiming Pande as a Maoist] was forged.”

skaranam · Post by **skaranam** » 04 Jul 2010 23:00

More about the Scribe

Flanked by human rights activists and her brother Vijay Vardhan Upreti, also a journalist, Babita recalled that Pandey had told her on June 30 that he was going to Nagpur to do a story. “He promised to return on July 2. He was there perhaps to interview Azad. But that was not to be.
“This encounter makes it apparent that the State doesn’t want peace but is only interested in exploiting mineral resources. It is because of this greed that Babita has lost her husband,” former SC/ST commissioner of Bastar B D Sharma alleged.

“Azad was the one who acknowledged and appreciated our Peace March from Raipur to Dantewada. He was the one who responded to Home Minister P Chidambaram’s call for peace talks almost immediately. We understand that he was picked up by the police when he was heading to Dandakaranya forests to discuss peace talks with his comrades,” said Professor Banwarilal Sharma of the Campaign for Peace and Justice. The Campaign, signed by Medha Patkar, Dr V N Sharma and other social activists, demanded an independent enquiry into the killing of Azad and Pandey.
ENS adds from Hyderabad: Pandey was from Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand and was a resident of Haldwani area in Nainital. Pithoragarh SP Nilesh Anand Pandey said, “Pandey had started a magazine called Karwan and was its editor. He did his diploma in journalism from Gadhwal University in Srinagar (Uttarakhand).” The SP further said Pandey had graduated in Economics from Pithoragarh College. “For some time, he worked in the Uttarakhand Kisan Sangharsh Samiti and later started Karwan from Almora,” he said.

Press Statement with Info on Pandey

It is not Sukhdev, but com. Hem Pandey of Uttarakhand who was killed by APSIB

Com. Hem Pandey, 30, hailed from a nearby village of Pithoragarh town of Uttarakhand State. He did his MA history in Nainital University and got himself registered in PhD. While he was in college, he was active member of AISA, and slowly realizing he pseudo revolutionary character of AISA politics, he moved to the radical groups, later in 2001 he joined the then CPI (ML) (PW). He organized peasantry in the mountainous villages in Almora district, taking up umpteen numbers of issues of peasantry, including the problems arose out of Binsar Sanctuary. Soft-spoken, bespectacled, lean and energetic Com. Hem won the love of people of that region. He was moved into more important works in 2005. He had done his new assignments with patience and endurance. His appetite for learning new things, reading more and more, and zeal for penning his ideas are things for the emulation for all the revolutionaries. He has written various articles to newsmagazines under various pen names. We request the civil rights organisations to demand the A P police to send the body of com. Hem Pandey to his bereaved mother who is in Haldwani, Uttarakhand state, who is his sole surviving parent.

So Babita and all the people who were with her in Delhi screaming that Pandey is not a maoist, please take a note of this.

Suppiah · Post by **Suppiah** » 05 Jul 2010 06:26

Now that he has been eliminated, this scum becomes an angel of peace, about to declare ceasefire!

Shameless mass murderer propaganda ...and these stalinist scum want us to believe that they are opposed to maoist ideology!

Muppalla · Post by **Muppalla** » 05 Jul 2010 06:52

Spl wing puts Naxals on mat

The special Intelligence Branch (SIB) of the Andhra Pradesh Police has come into focus again with the killing of Communist Party of India (Maoist) spokesperson and politburo member Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad.

A specialised wing set up by the state police to deal exclusively with Maoist activities across the state, the SIB has achieved major breakthroughs in the last five years. This has resulted in a decimation of the Maoist movement in the state and the arrest of several Maoist leaders in the country.

The last one- and- a- half decade saw several Maoist leaders, including the party's central committee ( CC) members, getting killed in encounters or arrested by the Andhra Pradesh Police, thanks to the pro- active SIB. The CC members who were killed in encounters include Shyam, Mahesh, Murali, Chandramouli, Sande Rajamouli, Prasad, Patel Sudhakar Reddy and Sakhamuri Appa Rao. Several other top leaders, including Kobad Ghandy, Malla Raji Reddy, B. Prasad Singh alias Balraj, Amit Bagchi, Pankaj, Bansidhar Singh alias Chintanda and Tushar Kanth Bhattacharya, were arrested either directly by the sleuths of the Andhra SIB or with the help of their inputs.

" That is the strength of our SIB. We have specialised intelligence wings not at a state- level, but in every district.

This works in tandem with the district police. The SIB's only function is to track the movements of the Maoists," an intelligence officer said.

Backed by unlimited funds, the SIB has spread its network across Maoist strongholds. " Normally, we share inputs with the central intelligence wing, but most of the times, we conduct operations on our own," the official said.

The SIB has a network of undercover operators who report directly to the headquarters and pass on information to the local superintendents of police before attacking the targets. " The fact that the Adilabad SP came to know about Azad's killing only in the last minute itself shows how secretly the SIB operates," the official said.

Maoist leaders also acknowledge the efficacy of the SIB. " On March 11, the Andhra SIB almost caught Azad. Since then, the sleuths have kept an eye on Maoist movements in Maharashtra. On Friday, they picked him up along with another guerrilla, took them to Adilabad and killed them in a fake encounter," CPI ( Maoist) Dandakarayna special zone spokesman Gudsa Usendi said.

The CPI ( Maoist) accused the SIB of encouraging covert activities to destroy them. " It pushes moles into the party. A majority of the encounter killings is only because of infiltration of moles into the movement," a Maoist sympathiser said.

Suppiah · Post by **Suppiah** » 05 Jul 2010 07:06

Intersting articles from Spiegel on their country's leftists...

German Leftists tear down or steal German flags put up by immigrant Lebanese...saying German flag is not worth displaying..

Just like our own band of Stalinist/Maoist rapist goons, mass murderers and eye-gougers, leftists elsewhere too take special pride in destroying culture, history, religion and national or other identities, so that their cancer can grow unchecked...it also allows them to pretend to be 'secular and minority friendly'

And this is even more interesting....

German leftists encouraged pedophilia in the name of sexual education...

Again not much difference from our own Maoists who recruit women into their army for 'revolution' only to use them as sexual slaves...as many cases that have come out show...

Yagnasri · Post by **Yagnasri** » 05 Jul 2010 18:57

Though the leftings are removed from the Jungles of AP the media is full of them. Do you know all the TV channels in AP telicasted the funaral of Azad as if he is a national Hero.Lot of interviews of over gound naxals telecasted at the same time.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 05 Jul 2010 20:20

Narayana Rao wrote:Though the leftings are removed from the Jungles of AP the media is full of them. Do you know all the TV channels in AP telicasted the funaral of Azad as if he is a national Hero.Lot of interviews of over gound naxals telecasted at the same time.

How do you they won the last election in AP?

It's payback time onlee.

Muppalla · Post by **Muppalla** » 06 Jul 2010 03:23

chetak wrote: How do you they won the last election in AP?

It's payback time onlee.

The open and banned left never wins any elections in AP. Even if CPI, CPM etc stand in elections on their own they will not win any seat. However, there are some pockets where they can change the winners between INC and TDP. Hence when TDP was not with BJP they were with BJP and when TDP went with BJP the left went with INC.

Regarding Naxals and influence, they have some pockets in Telanaga region where they can influence the voters. In 2004 they influenced INC+TRS combine. They were virulently anti-TDP for a very long time. I beleive Greyhounds and active persual of Naxal menace was started by TDP government. It is beleived that naxals and INC go very well in the strategy and I do not know if there is a change due to Chidambaram's efforts.

The fear factor for politicians in Telangana due to Naxals is always there. Though not much action like in Chattisgarh occur in AP but fear due to them exists in Telangana region of AP. The political parties and candidates does not take panga with them due to fear for their lives.

brihaspati · Post by **brihaspati** » 06 Jul 2010 04:21

What fueled the "Left" initially in the heady days of the dream still remains a potent force to transform Indian society. The more I study Maoists the more I see that they have sharply revealed the specific weaknesses of the Indian "rashtra" as it stands today. It was an youthful grand dream that failed to become a vision, and its inexperience transformed into a callous bloodshed. But the issues they fought over are a fundamental aspect of the very essence of our tradition and culture.

The reason most of the "leadership" come from the elite, is because some of the youth do take the idealism of their uprbringing too seriously and sincerely. They also take the liberal, communitarian and egalitarian undercurrent of Bharatyia philosophy seriously in their early phase and face a contradiction in the "real-politik" of Indian society.

If anyone can change Bharatyia society and hence its rashtra ultimately, it will be a similar class of idealist youth whose contradiction of their roots and the society they find themselves in, forces them to take the necessary steps. In many ways, extremism is an almost sure outcome of "idealism" that has been forced to face continuous frustrations. Not all extremisms are always evil - even the "freedom movement" against the Brits showed episodes of extremism and they had important positive consequences. So the basic question reduces to the basis and objective of that "extremism". Where the Islamic extremism is "bad" because it is driven by something completely alien to our roots, we have to look at "red" extremism differently. We have to condemn the route they have taken, but we cannot dismiss the idealism that is essentially derived from our very own "roots".

There is little progress to be made unless we accommodate and incorporate the fundamental communitarian and inclusive socio-economic justice themes in ancient Bharat - basically the leftist "tool" - to mobilize across the numerous fractures that we have allowed our root society to grow. Its language does not have to be borrowed from Marx, but can be sourced from our very own culture.

A leftist approach to achieve rightist objectives....!

Rony · Post by **Rony** » 06 Jul 2010 08:58

Suppiah wrote:Intersting articles from Spiegel on their country's leftists...

Suppiah garu, Thanks for those articles.

what is more interesting is that the German media at least understands the true nature of extreme leftists and reports it.Contrast that with our DDM, where the leftists are potrayed as god's chosen people to India. Every where else, the media has left, center and right components.And one informs about the other there by creating a balance. But in India, the media is either leftist or extreme leftist. There is no centrist or center-right media at all. And that is the problem since there are no one else in print and electronic media who can challenge the leftist crap coming out of the media.

skaranam · Post by **skaranam** » 06 Jul 2010 12:27

Narayana Rao wrote:Though the leftings are removed from the Jungles of AP the media is full of them. Do you know all the TV channels in AP telicasted the funaral of Azad as if he is a national Hero.Lot of interviews of over gound naxals telecasted at the same time.

The AP journalist union also has leftist feelings. It is rumored that lot of Osmania Univ faculty attended the funeral. Noticeable is the absence of students and if we look at the avg. age of attendees would show it is the remnants of the naxal movement. Erstwhile Principal of CBIT attended the meeting and spoke for about 2 minutes at the meeting. He said, cherukuri was his student when he was teaching at REC Warangal. None of the TRS stalwarts attended the funeral, which is being rumored to be a strategic move.

The glorification of Maoist started with ABN and Mahaa TV. This was surprising because it was deviation from its previous behavior. One theory is ABN owner is a Kamma, with a super kamma feeling. Cherukuri is a kamma. TV9, whose CEO is Ravi Prakash is also a kamma, but he had squeezed the naxal sympathy effect long time back thus it is rumored that max coverage of cherukuri coverage will not benefit him anything. Recall that CEO Ravi Prakash has extensive naxal contacts and a sympathizer.

Z-24hours which promoted Telangana sentiment heavily, was not extensive in its coverage about cherukuri funeral. HMTV, which was at the forefront of the telangana coverage did a extensive job about the funeral. Other channels telecasted due to peer pressure. They cut off as soon as the funeral pyre was lit.