To

Our beloved peasantry of Andhra Pradesh

The entire country has been shell-shocked on hearing of the sacrifice of your precious lives. You, the peasants are the lifeline of the society. The crops which you have been assuring year after year sustain humankind for existence. If you stop ploughing, society will perish. Whatever wealth the human race, society or a country has it significantly depends on you and your toil. No one eats gold, silver, cash money, movable or immovable properties. The poorer section of the society or the elite will not remain alive in their mud huts or AC rooms without any intake of food. You, you are the peasantry, the real ‘Mehanath Kash lok’ on the planet.

The laptop, the pet dog of World Bank, the TDP Supremo Chandrababu Naidu mortgaged Andhrapradesh. He assured that Andhra Pradesh would transform into swarnadhrapradesh. Actually, what happened is that, while he and his chamchas’ wealth fabulously ran towards accumulation of tens of thousands of crores rupee, the common man of Andhra Pradesh, particularly the annadatas’, have been pushed towards regular suicides. The suicide rate has already reached a staggering number. Even the master weavers are committing suicide when their looms fall silent and no market is found for their goods under the CEO of Andhra Pradesh. With all avenues closed, they too started ending their lives, the dangerous result of the recent TDP government’s policies.

When thousands of peasants started to commit suicide the entire people of AP state and the country were in deep shock, yet the modern Nero and his chamcha ministers shamelessly commented that if they declared compensation then thousands would die for the payment of the exgratia amount.

The recently ousted modern CEO and his chamchas understood how to fill their coffers but never tried to feel the pulse of the peasantry. They never thought of taking part in any mass movement, nor did they bother to mingle with the common man.

They occupied the political power and ruled the state with draconian laws in Hitlarist style. Agriculture and the peasantry as such were neglected totally. The expenditure on inputs all increased so many times in the past ten years. All the subsidies were curbed with a stroke of the pen under their instructions of big boss – the World Bank. Irrigation projects were totally neglected. In the name of cultivating high-yielding varieties of crops, dependency on imperialism has increased many times. This is a major imperialist way of looting the peasantry.

All round frustration, pressure tactics from private and govt. sources which create so much panic that the moneyless peasant is forced to act nervously and they lose all balance to choose the suicidal path immediately. Once this terrifying situation is created then there is no support or consolation from parliamentary parties, democratic, progressive people and even from revolutionary organizations in AP or from out side. The newly elected Congress party pushed forward populist slogans to waive the loans of the peasantry. But till now there is no legislation on the cards. The bankers and many private lenders have been forcing the peasantry using crude methods to collect money. With continuous loss of crops, major loan amounts remain hanging on their backs finally ruin them. Mear assurances are not sufficient at this juncture. YSR and his men are not acting on warpath to avert the suicidal deaths. Declaring exgratia only will not stop the suicides.

To build the confidence in the annadata this is high time we intervened collectively to save their precious lives. We here by appeal to the revolutionary mass organizations, individuals and progressive minded people and forces to tour the villages and build confidence in the peasantry convincing them not to die this way. Struggle is the only way to exist. Let us firmly stand by the peasantry to bring them in the struggle for the waiving of all types of loans irrespective of its nature. Workers, students, youth, women, writers and urban masses should stand by the pauperized peasant to bring him back as a fighter to resist the policing of Hitlarist Chandrababu and the newly elected govt. if it puts its foot in the same shoe which laptop dog left. We fear this possibility because the new CM has already announced to carry all the dangerous reforms. The great Marxist teacher(!) Buddhadeb openly claimed they are not against the ongoing reforms, which were initiated by Manmohan, then intensified by Vajpayee and now being sold in the same of wine in new bottle by ‘our’ Chidambarams. History proves that struggle for existence is the law of development. So let us rally the peasants for the armed struggle to destroy the system that forces them to mortgage their lives to the money lenders and which thrusts many of them to the path of committing suicide.

Pradeep

POLITICAL BUREAU

C.P.I(M.L)[PEOPLE’S WAR]