Volume 6, No. 11, December. 2005

One thousand guerrillas of the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army led by the Central Military Commission and the Bihar-Jharkhand Special Area Military Commission of the CPI(Maoist) laid siege to the town of Jehanabad in Bihar for almost two and half hours from 9 PM on November 13 and conducted simultaneous raids and attacks on the district jail, district Court, police lines, police quarters, district armoury, and police stations in the town and successfully carried out the Operation Jail-break. This biggest ever operation in Bihar’s history was a complete success and the CPI(Maoist) was able to achieve its three objectives. Firstly, it was able to secure the release of its leaders, activists and ordinary prisoners who have been languishing in the jail for many years; secondly, it carried out the people’s verdict against the reactionary state-sponsored Ranaveer Sena by annihilating its leaders and capturing several of its activists; and, thirdly, it seized hundreds of rifles and thousands of rounds of ammunition.

The Central Committee of the CPI(Maoist) hails the heroic guerrillas of the PLGA for successfully carrying out the series of death-defying military actions through the meticulous planning by the Central Military Commission of the Party and the call given by the Central Committee to carry out tactical counteroffensive campaign. It pays its Red Salutes to the comrades who had laid down their precious lives in this historic campaign for liberating the oppressed masses. These daring actions are not only significant from the military point of view but have a wide political significance and they demonstrate to the entire world the justness of the cause for which the Maoists have been fighting. The punishment to the Ranaveer Sena leaders is long overdue and has inspired the entire oppressed masses in the country, particularly the Dalit and other oppressed caste masses, who had suffered terribly at the hands of these lumpen feudal gangsters.

Jehanabad politico-military campaign is an answer to the countrywide counter-revolutionary campaign of the reactionary Congress-led UPA government in the Centre and the state governments led by various parties. The successive Central governments, whether the BJP-led NDA in the past or the Congress-led UPA at present, and the governments in various states such as the BJP governments in Jharkhand and Chathisgarh and MP, or the Congress governments in AP, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Uttaranchal, CPI(M)-led Left Front government in West Bengal, BJD government in Orissa, Samajwadi Party’s government in UP, AIDMK government in Tamil Nadu, have unleashed a brutal campaign of killing leaders, activists and sympathizers of the CPI(Maoist) and the revolutionary mass organizations; arresting and implicating cases against thousands of revolutionaries and the common people, and suppressing even the nominal fundamental rights guaranteed by the Indian Constitution.

In just 14 months since the formation of the new Party of the Indian proletariat, CPI(Maoist), over 200 revolutionaries were killed by the police, most of these in fake encounters. Apart from this state terror, the reactionary ruling classes of India have unleashed an even more gruesome and abnoxious plan of massacring the people living in the areas of Maoist influence through so-called Jan Jagaran Abhiyans, Salwa Judum in Chathisgarh, Sendra in Jharkhand, and setting up lumpen gangs like the Narsa Cobras, Nallamala Cobras, Kakatiya Cobras etc., in AP, Nagarik Suraksha Samiti and Gana Suraksha Samiti in Jharkhand and West Bengal, Shanthi Sena in Orissa, Ranaveer Sena in Bihar, and so on. In Chathisgarh, this diabolic game-plan of attacking entire villages, burning them, killing adivasis not sparing even women, children and the old aged people has been continuing since last June which took a toll of over 70 adivasi lives. Untold atrocities are committed by these lumpen gangs and the central para-miltary forces such as beheading men, women and children, raping women activists of the mass organizations and sympathizers of CPI(Maoist) and the entire media has been conniving with the police and administration in suppressing the facts, and publicising lies and falsehoods against the movement led by the CPI(Maoist). As if this were not enough, the various state governments have begun to acquire Unamanned aerial Vehicles (UAVs), helicopters, MPVs, and sophisticated arms. Mine-proof police stations are being constructed in all the areas of armed struggle. Covert agents are deployed in a big way and the Intelligence departments and the police officials are trying such dirty methods like mixing poison in food and water to kill the Party leaders and the PLGA forces.

The Jehanabad operation is an answer to this brutal campaign unleashed by the Central and state governments led by the recently-set up Joint Task Forces. It is a turning point in the ongoing people’s war in the country. Jehanabad district administration and its police forces, the central para-military forces, the reactionary upper-caste landlord private armies such as the Ranaveer Sena, Sunlight Sena, Bhumarshi sena etc., have a notorious history of unleashing blood-baths in the past two decades like Arwal and Laxmanpur Bathe. Through such massacres the reactionary rulers dreamt of suppressing the people’s war and the democratic struggles of the oppressed people. Moreover, hundreds of people have been languishing in jails for years without any trial under the most miserable conditions inside the prison in violation of the provisions stipulated in the Jail Manuals. No wonder, the people were overjoyed by the Operation Jail-break by the Maoists that saw at least 341 prisoners escape from the dark dungeons of Jehanabad jail. This daring action has also inspired the masses all over the country who see how innocent people are placed behind bars even as the biggest criminals, blood-sucking tax-evading businessmen, money-lenders, traders and industrialists, corrupt officials and political leaders hold reins of power and roam freely.

The Jehanabad politico-military campaign, like the Koraput campaign in February last year in which over 500 arms were captured from ten different locations in the district, show the superiority of guerrilla tactics based on the military line enunciated by Com. Mao for waging war in situations where the enemy has a vastly superior force. It shows that the well-equipped, well-trained, and numerically superior mercenary enemy forces can be dealt heavy blows by a numerically weaker but determined, fearless and politically motivated armed force of the people through concrete survey of the weak points of the enemy force, meticulous planning and effective execution based on the principle of taking on the enemy through surprise at lightening speed.

The recent tactical counter-offensives carried out by the PLGA guerrillas such as daring raid on a Homeguards Training Centre in Giridih district in Jharkhand and capture of 185 arms and 25,000 rounds of ammunition on November 11; the killing of the SP of Mungher district of Bihar; the daring series of actions in Madhuban town of east Chmparan district in North Bihar; the seizure of arms through raids on a police outpost near Sambhalpur and the armed outpost of the Minister Dali in Malkangiri district in Orissa last month; the annihilation of over 20 CRPF and injuring over 70 in the tactical counteroffensive campaign during April-June, blasting of the MPV and killing of 24 CRPF personnel in Dantewara district and the seizure of LMG and Insas rifle from the CRPF by the people’s militia and the PLGA guerrillas in North Bastar in Dandakaranya in the past two months, the seizure of arms from the STF in Gadchiroli and Gondia, the attempt on the life of the SP of Prakasham district, the daring attacks on several police stations and the killing of an SI in Mahboob Nagar district in AP, and the politico-military campaign in Jehanabad on November 13, and several such daring actions have inspired the masses all over the country and show the path for the liberation of our country from the stranglehold of imperialism, feudalism and the comprador bureaucrat capital. All these tactical offensives were conducted by countering the increasing encirclement-suppression campaigns by the central para-military forces, the STF, Grey Hounds and special police forces, with the active support of the revolutionary masses.

The CPI(Maoist) once again pledges that its heroic PLGA guerrillas under the CMC will secure the release of the hundreds of comrades languishing in various jails such as the Bewoor jail of Patna, Gaya, Buxar, Bhagalpur, Muzafarpur, Hazaribagh, Ranchi, Bethia and Bagha jails of Bihar and Jharkand; the scores of comrades imprisoned by the fascist YSR government in AP, Jayalalitha government in Tamil Nadu, Dharam Singh’s government in Karnataka; the comrades lodged in Baripada, Sambhalpur, Koraput, Jeypore, Raigada, Koraput jails in Orissa; Jagdalpur, Dantewara, Kanker, Ambikapur in Chathisgarh; Gadchiroli, Chandrapur, Gondia, Nagpur in maharashtra; Balaghat in MP, in Midnapore and other jails of West Bengal; and in various prisons all over the country, just as they had freed the prisoners in Jehanabad. The CC of our Party calls upon the oppressed masses to join the PLGA in thousands upon thousands to transform it into the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and achieve the objective of establishing a new society free from all forms of exploitation and oppression by overthrowing the enemies of the Indian people.

The oppressed masses in Jehanabad and other parts of the country are overjoyed at the humiliating defeat of the enemy forces who harass them daily and perpetrate untold atrocities. The politico-military campaign in Jehanabad reflect the aspirations of the masses who had lent active support to the guerrillas during the preparation and execution of the actions.

The CC of CPI(Maoist) once again sends its heartfelt revolutionary greetings to the heroic guerrillas of the PLGA who had carried out the series of simultaneous tactical counteroffensives in Jehanabad, Giridih and elsewhere with unflinching Bolshevik determination, revolutionary mettle and death-defying valour and heroism. We also send our Red Greetings to the revolutionary masses who had extended their full cooperation in various forms to the guerrillas in order to successfully carry out the operation.

We call upon the people to be vigilant against possible brutal attacks by the mercenary police forces who, like cowards, attack unarmed people being scared to confront the armed guerrillas. The intensified suppression campaign by the enemy forces should be countered by the masses by creating more Jehanabads and sending nightmares to the enemy even in his own headquarters.

There is no alternative before the people but to arm themselves with the arms snatched from the enemy in order to carry on the people’s war till final victory. The guerrilla forces of our Party as well as the revolutionary masses of our country have to undertake more and more such actions in a big way so as to strengthen the guerrilla armies and to transform them into the People’s Liberation Army in due course. Vast masses have to be mobilised to expand and deepen the ongoing people’s war in our country.

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