Kishenji maoist biography of mahatma

  • Born in in Peddapally town (in Karimnagar district, north Telangana), Kishenji was raised by his father Venkataiah (a “freedom fighter”, he.
  • In the case of Kishenji, there are too many holes in the story.
  • In , two peasants, Bhumaiah and Kishta Goud were arrested for murdering a landlord in Adilabad, and were later sentenced to death.

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    “Between Two Sets of Guns”

    All I am doing is telling people that they should protest to protect their lives. They are stuck between two sets of guns, and they should say that they are suffering.
    —Human rights activist in Chhattisgarh,
    The situation in Chhattisgarh is undoubtedly deeply distressing to any reasonable person. What was doubly dismaying to us was the repeated insistence … that the only option for the State was to rule with an iron fist, establish a social order in which … anyone speaking for human rights of citizens [is] to be deemed as suspect, and a Maoist.
    —Supreme Court of India, Nandini Sundar and others v. State of Chhattisgarh, July

    Lingaram Kodopi worked on tribal rights in India’s Chhattisgarh state. Both the Maoist insurgents, commonly called Naxals or Naxalites, and local government authorities, were suspicious of him. In , the police detained Kodopi without legal basis for over a month, beat him, and demanded he join the security forces.  In June Maoists attacked Kodopi’s grandfather, shot him in the leg, and ransacked the family home, accusing the family of acting as informers.  Finding himself at grave risk from both Maoists and state security forces, Kodopi decided to move to New Delhi. “There is no difference between the police i

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    Kishenji’s Killing: Some Important Questions

    Truth is seldom etched in black and white. Most often it is all grey.

    The attitude towards Kishenji, and all the works he carried out throughout his life, stands testimony to this. While to many he was a villain, to some others he was a hero, a character whom they saluted for the last time with the words ‘amar rahe’.

    His body was cremated on a Sunday, after it was handed to his family by the West Bengal Government. This is what Hindustan Times wrote about the cremation day:

    “The small town of Peddapalli in Karimnagar district was chock-a-block on Sunday as thousands made their way there to catch a glimpse of slain Maoist leader Mallajola Koteswara Rao alias Kishenji. Since morning, people started pouring in from places as far as Nizamabad, Adilabad and Visakhapatnam. A serpentine queue could be seen at Kishenji`s house at Brahmana Veedhi (street), where his body was kept. Intelligence officials said there could have been above people. The district saw a larger turnout only during the funeral of another Maoist leader, Nalla Adi Reddy, in †(November 27, )

    In fact his funeral also witnessed the reading out of a statement written by ‘Abhay’ (believed to be Mallajola Venugopal, brother of Kishenji), the spokesperso