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Modi, KCR out to eliminate Maoists
Revolutionary poet Varavara Rao accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao of eliminating the Maoists, who were fighting for the cause of people. Though the political parties have different ideologies they were all same when it comes to decimating the forces that were in favour of exploited sections.
Varavara Rao attends last rites of slain Maoists Kumaraswamy and Soni
Narsampet (Warangal): Revolutionary poet Varavara Rao accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao of eliminating the Maoists, who were fighting for the cause of people. Though the political parties have different ideologies they were all same when it comes to decimating the forces that were in favour of exploited sections.
The governments were allowing exploitation of natural resources threatening the existence of tribals and killing Maoists for fighting against it, he said. Varavara Rao, along with leaders of different human rights groups and peoples’ organisations attended the last rites of Puttapaka Kumaraswamy alias Sushil alias Ranjith and his wife Sindri Lingo alias Soni at Sushil’s native village, Bhanjipet in Narsampet mandal in the district on Thursday.
The Maoist and his wife were killed in an exchange of fire with police in Odisha at Deogarh and Angul districts on Sunday and their bodies were brought to the village on Wednesday night. Kumaraswamy, who went underground 22 years ago and was the secretary of Kalinganagar divisional committee and state committee member, carried cash reward of Rs 20 lakh on his head while his wife, carried Rs 5 lakh reward. Soni hails fromVishakhapatnam in AP.
Speaking on the occasion, Varavara Rao said Kumaraswamy and his wife were killed in fake encounter. He urged the public to question the local political leaders for failing to question the fake encounters by the governments. Referring to the death of two tribal students Bhumika and Priyanka at Khaderpetgutta in Chennaraopet mandal, he said the Ministers in the TRS government should take the responsibility for their deaths.
Red flags waved, slogans raised, songs sung and poems read paying tributes to Kumaraswamy and Soni by Amaraveerula Bandu Mitrula Sangam state secretary Seethakka, leaders of TPF, MRPS and Mala Mahanadu and Virasam. Large number residents from the village and neighbouring villages arrived to pay homage to the dead Maoists.
They shouted slogans against the TRS government and gheraoed local TRS leader P Sudarshan Reddy, when he came to pay tributes to the deceased Maoists. Kumaraswamy’s mother Narasamma, who lives alone at the village, grieved inconsolably at his sons’ death. ‘I was expecting him to come back to me someday or the other but now he came back dead,’ she lamented. She lost her husband ten years ago and her elder son Bikshapathi died in 2013.
