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we are sending you the reports on patna rally
gurmeet
Patna Rally to Celebrate the Formation of CPI (Maoist)
Brutally Attacked by the Police, Like in Delhi
The rally and public meeting to be organized by the Solidarity Committee for
the Unity of Peoples Struggles on 5th December was brutally attacked by the
police. The rally was intended to celebrate the unity of CPI (ML) Peoples War
and Maoist Communist Centre of India. Even though the police had given
permission for the rally and public meeting yet it was disrupted by the police
on the penultimate day. Perhaps, it is for the first time since Arwal carnage
of 1986 that all the districts of the whole of Bihar and Jharkhand region were
sealed and the people assaulted in every city and town to stop them from
attending the programme.
The people were so much inspired by the call to celebrate the unity of the
revolutionary forces that hundreds of thousands were coming forward to
participate in it. The state of Bihar was so much scared by this mobilization
being taking place that it decided to swoop down on the rallyists a day before.
About ten thousands of people, including women and children, who had assembled
in the Gandhi Maidan on the evening of 4th December were surrounded by the
police forces during the night and were brutally cane charged. Dozens of
activists and participants were injured in the sudden attack by the police. On
person named Jeetan Marandi, an activist of the Jharkhand Cultural team, got
severe head injuries and was hospitalized along with many others. The police
also uprooted the dais, public address system, and tents showing its
condemnable anti-people behaviour and violating its own commitment to allow the
programme which was to be held in a peaceful manner.
It was already in the knowledge of the media and the police and civil
administration that the campaign to organize this programme was going on for
the last fifteen days from a place called Eastern Bhikha Chakk. Nothing was
illegal or secret about the programme.
This place and another camp where the revolutionary activists were staying were
also attacked and the activists were arrested and beaten up. The police swoop
down not only happened in the capital city of Patna but also throughout the
states of Bihar and Jharkhand simultaneously. This also happened in Bihar�s
Orangabad, Jehanabad, Sasaram, Gaya, Arwal, Kizar, Bihta, Maner, Dulhan Bazaar,
Masaudi, Beguserai, Khagria, Motihari, Champaran, Dharbhanga, Hajipur, and in
Jharkhand, Garhwa, Daltonganj, Barwadih, Girdih, Gumla, Lohardaga, Bokaro,
Ranchi, Latehar, Dhanbad, Hazaribagh, Chatra etc. dragging the people out of
hundreds of trains, buses and trucks, and beating them mercilessly. Not that
the governments of the two states collaborated in this evil design, the orders
in fact given by the centre after a meeting of ministers and top police
officials from thirteen states of the country in Delhi.
The upsurge and enthusiasm among the people was so great that the authorities
in both the states had to resort to evil methods to terrorize the people.
Wherever the people were stopped they organized pickets and sit-ins on the
roads, started cultural programmes, made speeches and raised slogans
celebrating the coming into being of CPI (Maoist). Even the compound of the
Bankepur Camp jail was turned into a place for celebration and the prisoners
held a vast meeting there.
The arrested include the revolutionary activists and leaders like Raj Kishor,
Tara Singh, Ramadhar Singh, Aarti Prasad and others. On the whole, 180 people
were arrested and 23 of them were slapped with 17, Criminal Law Amendment. This
act came into existence in 1908 to be used against the Congress to declare its
meetings as unlawful. This law could also charge the arrested with sedition.
The British period act still continues and is used now to contain the
revolutionary activism of the masses. It is a strange twist of justice that the
rally for which permission was granted earlier was to be declared unlawful by
the state itself trampling upon the fundamental right to protest..
Here it is important to note that large scale arrests were also carried out by
the Delhi police on November 25. More than fifteen hundred people were arrested
or detained to prevent the people from carrying out a demonstration and a
public meeting in support of the revolutionary struggles going on in the
country. Though the arrested people were released in the evening yet it showed
that the act to disallow the people freedom of _expression was an infringement
on their fundamental right of _expression. The whole area around Red Fort and
Firoze Shah Kotla Grounds was turned into a huge police garrison. It looked as
if the police feared an onslaught on the capital.
The the stopping of revolutionaries from holding a peaceful meeting was a
political decision taken by the police top brass to prevent the spread of
revolutionary and democratic ideas among the people. Yet the efforts of the
police proved unsuccessful as it failed to dampen the spirit of the rallyists
who remained steadfast even in the police stations.
Thousands of people saw with their own eyes peaceful people being arrested and
forced into vehicles for taking them to various police stations of the state.
What was not allowed in the public view was carried out within the walls of the
police stations where revolutionary speeches, dramas and songs were staged.
The vast yard of the police lines of Maurice Nagar swarmed with a sea of red
flags, banners and mottos. Sky renting slogans hailing the formation of
Communist Party of India (Maoist) reverberated in the whole air in side the
police compounds. The prisoners hailed the ongoing revolution in Nepal and
condemned the widespread police repression on the revolutionary and nationality
and national liberation movements going on in India. A message by the
revolutionary poet Varvara Rao red out hailing the unity of the revolutionary
movements and coming into being of the communist party of India (Maoist). In a
way, the police act of highhandedness was turned into its opposite by
enthusiastic revolutionary masses. The whole episode became an inspiring
experience for them.
The people who had been detained also included 250 Nepali comrades who had come
from various parts of North India. The arrested other than Varvara Rao, Raj
Kishor, Hari Singh �Tarq�, Sukhwinder Kaur, and Tara Singh. Here too the camp
where the volunteers had been camping for the last eight days was surrounded by
the police and they were banned from going outside for the whole day on
November 25.
The Solidarity Committee decided to take the ban orders on the processions and
public meetings to the court of the people to expose the denial of democratic
right of freedom of _expression to the forces who are committed to the cause of
people.
On the one hand the government of India says that Naxalism is a socio-economic
problem which has to be tackled socially, economically and politically, while
on the other hand, it attacks on the people who support the revolutionary
struggles, branding it as a law and order problem. Though it says that they
should come into the mainstream and overground yet its actual attitude is to
disallow any kind of legal and open opportunity to the supporters of the
revolutionary movements to air their views in public. It is a gross travesty of
promises, proving their falsity, and deliberate attack on the fundamental right
of freedom of _expression.
This exposes the undemocratic nature of the rulers which do not allow the
representatives of the people�s forces to openly express their opinions in the
public. But the rulers are free to carry on anti-people acts on the behests of
imperialists. They freely use the state machinery against the people. So, the
people are justified in questioning the �integrity � honesty� of the rulers.
The people throughout Bihar and Jharkhand protested against the brutal handling
of the Patna Rally by observing a black day on the international day of
Democratic and Human Rights on December 10. Many public programmes and meetings
were organized throughout the two states as a token of protest condemning the
undemocratic and highhanded attitude of the State�s forces.
In spite of the State�s threats, aired on the radio, T V and the print media,
to discourage the people from coming to the Patna Rally the people showed great
enthusiasm to attend the programme and had to be stopped by the police with
indiscriminate and uncalled for use of force at various places. In fact this
oppression was unleashed to contain and suppress the growing influence of the
revolutionary forces but the masses refuse to be cowed down by such kinds of
attacks by the police and other state agencies. The people organized programmes
at all the places wherever the police had stopped them and celebrated the birth
of CPI (Maoist).
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