Comprehensive and Scientific Rehabilitation for All People Displaced by Polavaram Call of Speakers in General Council of RCS ( AP )
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Comprehensive and Scientific Rehabilitation for All People Displaced by Polavaram Call of Speakers in General Council of RCS ( AP )
On August 12 and 13 of 2018 , the RCS ( AP ) has successfully held its State General Council ( GC ) meeting in Viziangaaram ( AP ) town .
On the first day , the meeting of GC began with the hoisting of flag of the Sangh and paying of Homage to the Martyrs by Com . S . Jhansi , the State President of RCS ( AP ).
In the last two years since June 2016 GC meeting , the Sangh lost senior Comrades Khokan Mazumdar , Khudan Mallik , the leaders of Naxalbari Peasant Movement ; Com . Kotaiah , the State Secretary , RCS ( AP ), Com . Soni , the State Asst Secretary , RCS ( AP ) Com . Muthireddi Sreeramulu , the State Vice President , RCS ( AP ) and Com . B . Timma Reddy ; Bojja Tarakam , a veteran democrat and leader of Dalit movement ; Com . B . Guruva Reddy , the leader of T . N . Memorial Trust and Com . Nirmalananda , leader of revolutionary literary movement . Sangh also lost some cadre at the district and local levels . There are people and democrats who were killed in the attacks either by the communal forces or state ’ s repressive forces . The GC adopted a resolution presented by com . D . Varma , the State Asst . Secretary paying Homage to all of them .
Com . P . Jaswantha Rao , the Editor , Janashakti , Telugu fortnightly , made an inaugural speech . He said : The policies of exploiting Indian ruling classes had driven the peasants into a serious crisis . In the name of socalled Green Revolution , the rulers had turned India into a vast market for the MNCs to loot the 24 peasants by promoting the use of high yielding seeds , chemical fertilisers , pesticides , tractors and other machinery . All this had inflated the costs of produce , pushed the peasants into the clutches of private money lenders and forced the large number of peasants , especially tenants to commit suicides . The rulers are deliberately turning the agriculture into a worthless affair and thereby peasants are increasingly ruined and alienated from the land . Instead of buying the agricultural produce directly from the peasants at reasonable prices , the rulers are leaving them to the mercy of private market forces . The peasants must demand that all the lands forcibly grabbed from them must be returned . They must put up an organized fight against the policies of the rulers which are displacing the peasants from their lands and intensifying their alienation from the lands .
In his speech , Com . Subodh Mitra , the All India Convenor , AIKMKS , has called upon the RCS ( AP ) to build a powerful peasant movement in the light of experiences of Telangana armed struggle , Naxalbari and Srikakulam peasant movements . Underlining the significance and relevance of the slogan of “ land to the tiller ” even today , he made it clear that the people cannot achieve the real progress in their life without putting an end to the feudal and imperialist exploitation .
Com . S . Jhansi , who presided over this session , pointed out that the rulers are more interested in setting up the companies that are destroying the people ’ s lives and the environment while closing down the industries such as jute , sugar and agro-based industries that are in the interests of peasants and workers .
The representatives of various fraternal organizations like Com . Basu Acharya ( AIKMKS , West Bengal ); Com . Srikant Mohanty ( AIKMKS , Odisha ); Com . Srihari ( AISYCC ); Com . K . Baji ( PDSO ); Com . Ammaji ( Stree Vimukti Sanghatana ); Com . R . Narayana Rao ( AIFTU-N ); Com . Jogi Naidu ( APTF ); Com . Appala Swamy ( Kalasi Sangham , Bobbili ); Com . C . Mallikarjuna Reddy ( Advocate , Karnataka ), in their brief messages , wished the success of the GC .
Com . S . Jhansi presented a report on the activities of RCS ( AP ) since the last GC meeting . The delegates have discussed and adopted the same .
The GC has co-opted 7 Comrades to the State Executive Committee in view of the growing needs of the movement .
The State EC has elected Com . M . S . Naga Raju as the State Secretary and Com . Illa Rami Reddy as the State Vice President of the RCS ( AP ). This was announced in the GC with enthusiastic clappings .
The G . C . adopted the resolutions on various issues like land , water , tenants rights , rehabilitation of people displaced by the Polavaram , relief to drought affected people ; attacks of the BJP and Hindutva forces on people ; state repression ; ghastly attacks on dalits , women and children , reasonable prices for agricultural produce ; India ’ s withdrawal from RCEP , against
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