Join PROTEST DEMO
Against
Killing of 8 Left Activists in Police Firing in A.P.
At Andhra Bhavan
30th July, 2007 (Monday)
30th July, 2007 (Monday)
Assemble at Ganga Dhaba at 9.30 AM
Monday, July 30, 2007
SFI release on AP Police Firing
Eight Left Activists Killed In Police Firing In Andhra
Dated: 28.07.07
Friends,
Students’ Federation of India strongly condemns the killing of eight persons in police firing in Mudigonda, near Khammam in Andhra Pradesh. The dead included a student and a woman. The police resorted to brutal firing on people participating in a peaceful RASTA ROKO as part of the bandh to protest police repression and the refusal of the government to concede their genuine demands. The CPI(M), CPI and 195 mass organisations have been conducting a peaceful movement for house sites and land for the poor, since May 2, 2007. The struggle entered a new phase on July 22 with the indefinite hunger strike launched by leaders of the CPI(M) and CPI. Instead of discussing and settling the issues, the Congress government in Andhra Pradesh resorted to brutal attacks against the people. Hundreds of people were seriously injured in police lathicharges in different parts of the state and thousands were sent to jail. Leaders including B.V. Raghavulu, Member of the CPI(M) Polit Bureau, P Madhu, Member of the CPI(M) Central Committee and K Narayana, Secretary of the Andhra Pradesh State Council of the CPI who were on indefinite hunger strike were forcibly arrested at midnight on Friday. The genuine demands of the people for house sites and land cannot be suppressed by such brutal display of force. The SFI urges upon the government of Andhra Pradesh to immediately concede all genuine demands. The SFI also demands firm action against the police officers responsible for the firing and payment of adequate compensation to those killed.
For the last three months poor peasants, landless agricultural workers, homeless urban poor people are waging a struggle in Andhra Pradesh demanding the state government to implement the 9/77 act which guarantees land assignment to the poor. Instead of taking steps to implement this act government brought an amendment which nullifies the spirit of the Land Assignment Act, 1977 and paves way to legalise all illegal occupations by the land mafia and influential classes in the state. This act only meant for legalising the illegal occupations of assigned land, snatching away the assigned land from the hands of poor and to reallocate the same to the influential sections of the society. At the same time lakhs of people are waiting in queue for almost one decade to get their piece of land to construct their homes. Government's only refrain is that there is no such vacant land which could be given to common masses for such purpose. At the same time the committee appointed by state government under the chairmanship of Koneru Rangarao, Cabinet Minister, found huge tracts of land ( more than 60 lakh acres) available with the government right now with which state as on date. Fearing worst consequences, the government has refused to make Koneru Rangarao Committee Report public. It is not even ready to table the report on the floor of state assembly.
In this background a ground swelling movement is going on demanding the state government to implement the recommendations of Koneru Rangarao Committee. 195 grassroot organisations including NGOs cutting across political and ideological affiliations have joined hands in support of this demand. Of late major political parties in the state have also extended their solidarity. The ongoing struggle reached its peak with the Hunger fast movement where the leaders of CPI(M) and CPI sitting on fast. Thousands of hunger fast tents have already been erected in the state where laks of common people are sitting on hunger strike in support of demands. Instead of agreeing to the genuine demands of the vast sections of people, state government has sought to repress the movement. More than three thousand cases were registered against the leaders of the movement. Thousands were sent to jail with non bailable warrants. Severe lathi charge has become a daily phenomenon where thousands are bearing the brunt of police. There is a en-mass moral support to this movement including those of upper middle class who could not find land to build their homes.
The Police in Andhra Pradesh let loose terror on Thursday against the poor agitating for house sites. Thousands and thousands of poor people, including a large number of women, picketed the district collectarates on Thursday throughout the state at the call given by the CPI(M) and CPI. Police resorted to severe lathi charge and used teargas shells, water cannons, mounted police in almost all district headquarters and arrested the agitators and the leaders of CPI(M) and CPI. In the state capital Hyderabad, the police action reminded the day when three people were killed by the police bullets seven years ago, when they were agitating against the hike in power tariff by the then TDP government. Yesterday, when poor people picketed Hyderabad district collectorate, the police used all sorts of force except firing. Many people received serious blood injuries and were to be taken to Osmania general hospital for treatment. The situation was same in almost all the district headquarters. Many women received blows from the police in their abdomen. Many of them got fainted due to the lathi blows. In solidarity with the huger-fast comrades and protesting against the police atrocities people observed State Bandh today, 28th July in which the police fired on the peaceful protesters in which 8 left activists were killed. SFI appeals to the student community to unite against the police firing on poor people and left activists and come out in support of the just demands of the people of the state.
- an SFI release
SFI pamphlet on the Protest March on 28th July
SFI-AISF
Allow the Rusticated Students and JNUSU Office Bearers to Register Immediately!
Date: 28/07/07
Friends,
More than 15 days have passed since the JNU administration entered into an agreement with the JNUSU and agreed to enable all the concerned (rusticated) students to take registration by the 14th of August on the basis of them submitting written appeals. However, even after getting appeals from all the rusticated students the administration has not initiated the process of giving registration to them. Even their rooms continue to be double locked till now. Registration of JNUSU office-bearers are also blocked which is nothing but a move towards betrayal of its own agreement with the JNUSU. JNUSU President has submitted a letter to the Vice-Chancellor demanding that their registration process be immediately initiated and the unjust fines imposed on office-bearers should be revoked. In this context, the unilateral decision of JNUSU Gen. Secy who is from AISA to submit an appeal to the administration, and that too by keeping the entire student community in dark, is an unacceptable act. This meek surrender of JNUSU Gen. Secy. before the administration is only strengthening the authoritarian character of the later.
The SFI-AISF would also appeal to the student community to isolate reactionary forces like YFE who have always been the stooges of administration. In their last pamphlet, the YFE has once again shown its true colours by attacking the JNUSU and siding with the punishment of students given by the administration. YFE has the track record of not mobilising students against administration and the reality is that it only feels motivated when there is an opportunity to spit venom against the deprived communities and attack the socially sensitive character of our university.
SFI-AISF appeals to the student community to join the protest march of JNUSU demonstrating rock solid student unity against the authoritarian JNU administration. If the students forced the administration to concede defeat in the midst of vacations, administration must realise that any dilly dally approach in this regard would only invite a bigger wrath of students.
More than 15 days have passed since the JNU administration entered into an agreement with the JNUSU and agreed to enable all the concerned (rusticated) students to take registration by the 14th of August on the basis of them submitting written appeals. However, even after getting appeals from all the rusticated students the administration has not initiated the process of giving registration to them. Even their rooms continue to be double locked till now. Registration of JNUSU office-bearers are also blocked which is nothing but a move towards betrayal of its own agreement with the JNUSU. JNUSU President has submitted a letter to the Vice-Chancellor demanding that their registration process be immediately initiated and the unjust fines imposed on office-bearers should be revoked. In this context, the unilateral decision of JNUSU Gen. Secy who is from AISA to submit an appeal to the administration, and that too by keeping the entire student community in dark, is an unacceptable act. This meek surrender of JNUSU Gen. Secy. before the administration is only strengthening the authoritarian character of the later.
The SFI-AISF would also appeal to the student community to isolate reactionary forces like YFE who have always been the stooges of administration. In their last pamphlet, the YFE has once again shown its true colours by attacking the JNUSU and siding with the punishment of students given by the administration. YFE has the track record of not mobilising students against administration and the reality is that it only feels motivated when there is an opportunity to spit venom against the deprived communities and attack the socially sensitive character of our university.
SFI-AISF appeals to the student community to join the protest march of JNUSU demonstrating rock solid student unity against the authoritarian JNU administration. If the students forced the administration to concede defeat in the midst of vacations, administration must realise that any dilly dally approach in this regard would only invite a bigger wrath of students.
JOIN JNUSU’S PROTEST MARCH
DEMANDING IMPLEMENTATION OF THE JNUSU’S AGREEMENT WITH THE ADMINISTRATION
GANGA DHABA 9 PM 28/07/07 (TONIGHT)
Sd/- Rajiv Kumar Ranjan, Secretary, SFI-JNU.
Sd/- Sanjay Kumar, Secretary, AISF-JNU.
SFI pamphlet of AP Police Firing
STUDENTS’ FEDERATION OF INDIA
Date: 29/07/07
Date: 29/07/07
Come and see the blood in the streets!
Let their sacrifices not go in vain.
They are not fallen trees, they are sprouting seeds….. the harbingers of hope.
Let their sacrifices not go in vain.
They are not fallen trees, they are sprouting seeds….. the harbingers of hope.
Friends,
Students’ Federation of India strongly condemns the killing of eight persons in police firing in Mudigonda, near Khammam in Andhra Pradesh. The dead included a student and a woman. The police resorted to brutal firing on people participating in a peaceful RASTA ROKO as part of the bandh to protest police repression and the refusal of the government to concede their genuine demands. The CPI(M), CPI and 195 mass organisations have been conducting a peaceful movement for house sites and land for the poor, since May 2, 2007. The struggle entered a new phase on July 22 with the indefinite hunger strike launched by leaders of the CPI(M) and CPI. Instead of discussing and settling the issues, the Congress government in Andhra Pradesh resorted to brutal attacks against the people. Hundreds of people were seriously injured in police lathicharges in different parts of the state and thousands were sent to jail. Leaders including B.V. Raghavulu, Member of the CPI(M) Polit Bureau, P Madhu, Member of the CPI(M) Central Committee and K Narayana, Secretary of the Andhra Pradesh State Council of the CPI who were on indefinite hunger strike were forcibly arrested at midnight on Friday. The genuine demands of the people for house sites and land cannot be suppressed by such brutal display of force. The SFI demands that the government of Andhra Pradesh immediately concede to all the genuine demands. The SFI also demands firm action against the police officers responsible for the firing and payment of adequate compensation to those killed.
Students’ Federation of India strongly condemns the killing of eight persons in police firing in Mudigonda, near Khammam in Andhra Pradesh. The dead included a student and a woman. The police resorted to brutal firing on people participating in a peaceful RASTA ROKO as part of the bandh to protest police repression and the refusal of the government to concede their genuine demands. The CPI(M), CPI and 195 mass organisations have been conducting a peaceful movement for house sites and land for the poor, since May 2, 2007. The struggle entered a new phase on July 22 with the indefinite hunger strike launched by leaders of the CPI(M) and CPI. Instead of discussing and settling the issues, the Congress government in Andhra Pradesh resorted to brutal attacks against the people. Hundreds of people were seriously injured in police lathicharges in different parts of the state and thousands were sent to jail. Leaders including B.V. Raghavulu, Member of the CPI(M) Polit Bureau, P Madhu, Member of the CPI(M) Central Committee and K Narayana, Secretary of the Andhra Pradesh State Council of the CPI who were on indefinite hunger strike were forcibly arrested at midnight on Friday. The genuine demands of the people for house sites and land cannot be suppressed by such brutal display of force. The SFI demands that the government of Andhra Pradesh immediately concede to all the genuine demands. The SFI also demands firm action against the police officers responsible for the firing and payment of adequate compensation to those killed.
JOIN PROTEST DEMONSTRATION
AGAINST THE KILLER CONGRESS GOVERNMENT
ANDHRA BHAWAN 30/07/07(Tomorrow)
ASSEMBLE AT GANGA DHABA AT 9:30 AM
Sd/- Rajiv Kumar Ranjan, Secretary, SFI-JNU.
Sd/- Roshan Kishore, President, SFI-JNU.
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