People should wage militant struggle for Telangana: Maoists

The Naxalites today came out in support of a separate Telangana, asking the people of the region to "wage a united militant mass struggle" to achieve the statehood.

The Naxalites today came out in support of a separate Telangana, asking the people of the region to "wage a united militant mass struggle" to achieve the statehood.

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Azad, the spokesperson of the Central Committee of the outlawed CPI (Maoist), said in a statement that a separate
state of Telangana is an "inalienable right" of the four crore people of the region.

He called for a "united militant mass struggle" against the "fascist Congress regime" and the "betrayers" in various
political garbs to "achieve" a separate Telangana.

Azad lashed out at the Congress, BJP, TDP, CPI and CPI(M) saying "they support Telangana only with the ulterior
motive of gaining some mass base and converting it into their vote banks."

The Naxalite leader also slammed the TRS, saying it wasted more than five years "begging Sonia (Gandhi) and
lobbying in the corridors of the Parliament."

"The TRS and its leader KCR are opposed from the very beginning to people's agitation for achieving Telangana state.

Their sole fear was that any mass agitation would become militant and slip out of their hands," Azad alleged.
Even the indefinite fast by KCR was a move aimed at keeping the movement under his control, he claimed.