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Naxalbari peasant uprising anniversary to be observed
THE ALLAHABAD Committee of CPI (ML) New Democracy shall observe the 39th anniversary of the Naxalbari peasant uprising with a huge mass meeting at Ghoorpur on May 25 at 11 am.
THE ALLAHABAD Committee of CPI (ML) New Democracy shall observe the 39th anniversary of the Naxalbari peasant uprising with a huge mass meeting at Ghoorpur on May 25 at 11 am.
The Naxalbari movement took place in May 1967. Thousands of peasants and agricultural workers organised under the banner of CPI (M) revolted against the party’s refusal to take away the landlord’s land and distribute it to the masses despite being in power in West Bengal.
Forty thousand farmers of Naxalbari block, led by the Kisan Sabha directly harvested the standing crop, took over the landlord’s implements and the surplus stored grain from their granaries and distributed it amongst the poor, annulled all the loans and burnt all the debt deeds which had kept farmers under perpetual bondage of the landlords. This struggle began on May 23 and the peasants clashed with the landlords’ goondas. On May 25, the then coalition government Home Minister Jyoti Basu came to the rescue of the landlords and ordered firing on the Naxalbari farmers. Eight women, two children and one man died in the firing on thousands of farmers.
In a Press release Heeralal, secretary of CPI (ML) New Democracy said the government of India and UP were trying to project Naxalites as criminals and terrorists only in order to discredit them to crush the peoples’ movement and to unleash terror. Naxalites are followers of the Naxalbari movement, which essentially in an anti feudal and anti imperialist peoples’ uprising, he adds.
He said the meeting would call upon the people to struggle for occupying pattas and village common lands and fight for allotment of ceiling land to the landless and leases for sand mining in Yamuna and its basin and stone quarry for the local workers.
Com Dr VK Patole of CPI (ML), Jharkhand, Former MLA and ex judge Bhagwant Prasad, Vijay Chitori, editor of Gaon ki Nai Awaz and Com Ashish Mital UP secretary would be the main speakers on this occasion, he said.
