3000 Ex-Naxals join Praja Rajyam

For those who don't know Praja Rajyam(Peoples Rule) is a political party which was launched by Telgu Filmstar Chiranjeevi at a mega rally in Tirupati which was attended by nearly 10 lakh (one million) fans in August 2008.

So will PRP be able to perform ? or are these ex maoists all

set to be disappointed again ?

We will know soon.. 2 months left for elections... 

Lets hope chiranjeevi doesn't end up like another

blood sucking vampire.

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3,000 ex-Maoists line up to join Chiranjeevi's party

HYDERABAD: Hundreds of former naxalites, who jettisoned the Maoist movement in the last ten years will join the Prajarajyam Party on February 28.

According to party sources, around 3,000 former militants of various factions of the CPI (ML) and CPI (Maoist) will join the newly-floated party in Hyderabad in the presence of PRP chief Chiranjeevi and Yuvarajyam president Pavan Kalyan.

A part of the crowd during the launch of the party

This was the culmination of around six months of hardwork to mobilise the former rebels and bring them into PRP. The association of Marxist-Leninist singer Gadar and other pro-naxal intellectuals with the actor are said to have coordinated the move.

First meeting of the former naxalites was organised in Guntur in December last attended by over 800 people. The meeting was addressed by Dr P Mitra, party’s senior leader.

“In fact we wanted to organise a meeting in each district. But, due to logistic reasons and lack of time, a state-level meeting is planned in Hyderabad on February 24,” former People’s War activist I Satyanarayana told STOI.

Satyanarayana, a native of Guntur, was a member of the erstwhile Radical Youth League. He quit the extremist organisation due to personal reasons. “Even though thousands of people left the movement long ago they are not able to lead a peaceful life because of the hostile attitude of the police and lack of support from the government. So, they feel only PRP can restore a sense of security among them,” Satyanarayana said.

TOI

Performance is the only reality

Words are words
Promises are promises
Explanations are explanations
But only performance is reality.

More than forty years after the
Maoists began their people's war in India
they have only delivered on words,
promises and explanations.

But when one does a rational
unbiased evaluation of their
performance they fail miserably
on all parameters.

Moreover they will not be in a position
to perform anytime soon.. because
even if they do capture power,
holding on to it is going to be another bloody story..

If any of guys have read about Lenin's Red
Terror in Russia which was unleashed
after the failed assassination bid on Lenin's life
then you must understand that the Maoists will
also have to unleash
something similar here.

Which means another bloody civil war
after grabbing power at the end of which
there is no guarantee we will even have a
country left..... LOL

Well just some thoughts I felt I need to
scribble down....

Don't be my Valentine

Of late ... I have lost sympathy for the media.. They have really
gone over the top ...

I think they deserve to be reined in... I support strict control of the media...

And as for Valentine's Day.. This article below pretty much sums up what I
think of it

Don't be my Valentine

(CNN) -- With retailers hurting and the U.S. president trying to encourage Americans to spend money to restore consumer confidence, what I'm about to say may seem like treason. But here goes: Please boycott Valentine's Day and all that is associated with this horrendous "holiday."

For several years I have ripped into Valentine's Day. Not because I'm against love and relationships, but mainly because the holiday is such a farce.

First of all, Valentine's Day is not built around a religious event like Christmas or Easter; nor does it have any special meaning to the nation such as Memorial Day or Veterans Day.

It is nothing more than a commercial holiday created by rabid retailers who needed a major shopping day between Christmas and Easter in order to give people a reason to spend money.

Now folks, I love my wife. She is truly an awesome woman who is smart, talented, fine, and, did I say fine? But do I really need a special day to show my affection for her?

I've long maintained that if I sent my flowers at other times during the year, why do I have to fall victim to peer pressure and send her some roses that have quadrupled in price leading up to February 14?

Why should I be inundated with mailings, e-mails and commercials to show her that I love her by buying jewelry or clothing? If we went shopping in June or September or last month, can I get some kind of waiver or "Get out of Valentine's Day" card?

As for this silly flower thing, it's even got to the point that any flowers can't do. Some years ago I planned on sending a woman some flowers that weren't roses, and the (female) co-workers were aghast. They felt that nothing mattered except roses.

First of all, I didn't have a lot of dough and felt a nice bouquet was sufficient, but they were appalled. So I told them to go to hell and I'll do what I want. I guess for them, the thought really doesn't matter.

Then there are the women on the job who measure the love of their men based on those flowers. You know how some folks are. If there are flowers on the desk of 10 other women, and one woman doesn't have anything, folks get to talking and whispering as if something is wrong in her relationship.

I've learned that even if you get the biggest-ever rose bouquet -- the relationship might be crumbling and you just refuse to admit it.

And Valentine's Day really isn't even a two-way street. Men are utterly irrelevant except to serve as pawns in this commercial game, emptying their wallets in order to satisfy their lovers or those around them. Oh yea, retailers know the con game.

Most of these guys are hapless saps who have ignored their wives or girlfriends all year, so they buy the flowers and candy, and set a reservation at one of the city's most expensive restaurants, all to say, "Honey, I love you."

Ladies, and men, stop it! It's time to say enough is enough with Valentine's Day.

What do I want? How about men and women loving, caring and sharing the other 364 days a year? February 14 isn't the only time to send flowers to your woman (ladies, we wouldn't mind getting a surprise delivery as well!). How about dropping her a flower arrangement on May 14? And on that card you need to write, "Just because..."

Instead of men and women spicing up their sex life on February 14, make the effort to satisfy your mate the rest of the year.

If last Valentine's Day was the last time you took your significant other out to a really nice restaurant, you deserve to be in trouble.

Are you planning to treat your man or woman to a wonderful day at the spa this Saturday? Well, I'm sure he or she would thoroughly enjoy the same in June or July.

It's time that we all take stock of our relationships and learn that we are to be loving and fulfilled 365 days a year, and not reduce our affection to flowers, candy, jewelry, clothes and a meal on one day a year.

The people who plan their lives around Valentine's are like those who spend more time planning their wedding day rather than planning their marriage. The day is nice and wonderful, but what makes it last is what you do on the "non-special" days.

CNN

Chhattisgarh Maoists propose peace talks with government

The timing of the peace talks which was proposed just a week before the CoBRA was
deployed in Chhattisgarh raises a lot of questions.....

We are also grateful to Bridagier B K Punwar
for sharing his deepest and wildest fantasies of crushing the Maoists.

I would say ...
The Most Important Question that faces the Maoist's today is what are the
lessons to be learnt from LTTE's debacle in Sri Lanka ?


Chhattisgarh Maoists propose peace talks with government

In a press statement in Hindi, Pandu alias Pandanna, a spokesperson of the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), said the group "wants to hold talks with the government in public interest, provided the government takes positive initiatives."

"Before starting peace parleys, the government should create a conducive atmosphere and stop suppressing tribals," the message, sent to media outlets in its stronghold of Bastar in the state's southern forested region late Friday, said.

The Maoists' peace talk offer comes in the backdrop of chief minister Raman Singh's recent statement that "bullet has never produced a solution to any problem in the world".

In an initial response to the Maoists' offer, Raman Singh welcomed it, describing it as "cheering news".

Political analysts and experts say the Maoists have offered peace talks as they are now on the backfoot due to relentless attacks by police and para-military troopers on their decade-old landmine protested forested safe hideouts.

TOI

Maoists’ peace offer a ‘gimmick’, time to finish them: security expert

Raipur, Feb 1 (IANS) The peace talk offer by the Maoists to the Chhattisgarh government is a “well thought out ploy of the guerrillas to buy time to regroup”, a counter terrorism expert said, adding that the security forces should utilise the opportunity to finally crush the rebels. “This is the perfect time for the police to fan out in the rebels’ den and deliver the knockout punch,” Brigadier (retd) B.K. Ponwar, director of Counter Terrorism and Jungle Warfare College (CTJWC) at Kanker in Chhattisgarh, told IANS Sunday.

“Their (Maoists’) philosophy is that all power flows from the barrel of a gun but now they are willing to come to the negotiating table. This has happened because the rebels suffered heavy casualties in the past two years and also because of the pressure of the Salwa Judum (civil militia),” he said.

Ponwar, a former commandant of the Counter Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School at Vairengte in Mizoram who has served in Punjab, Nagaland, Tripura and several other insurgency and militancy-hit areas of the country, was commenting on the Maoists’ peace talk offer to the state government.

The outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist)’s Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee Saturday offered to hold talks with the state government. It is the first peace offer by the Maoists since they began their activities in the mineral-rich state in the early 1980s.

The state’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government has welcomed the offer though the police view it largely as “a diversionary tactic” of the insurgents who have been facing relentless attacks on their landmine protected forested hideouts in Bastar.

“The police must not put down their guns in the wake of the Maoists’ peace offer gimmick. Their (Maoists or Naxalites) whole philosophy is based on violence. By offering peace talks they just want to buy time to reconsolidate and regroup,” Ponwar said.

“This is a rare opportunity for the central and Chhattisgarh government to pump more guerrilla warfare skilled forces in Bastar to neutralise them forever,” he added.

Noting that the offer looks like a “well-designed tactic”, Ponwar said if the CPI-Maoist is really serious about peace, then the offer must come either from its politburo or central committee and the talks should be held with the Indian government as it is an inter-state problem.

Ponwar has trained about 7,000 policemen from seven states at the CTJWC since it was established in 2005.

TOI

Indian Marxism needs Correction - Guha

First Published : 07 Feb 2009 04:51:00 AM IST
Last Updated : 07 Feb 2009 02:25:04 PM IST

KOCHI: Noted historian Ramachandra Guha has said that if the Indian Marxism had to retain its relevance and to expand its reach beyond Kerala and West Bengal, then they have to adopt certain corrective measures. Delivering a talk on ‘The past and future of the Indian Marxism’ at the DC International Book Fair in Kochi on Friday, he said that the Indian Marxism should embrace the great Indian democratic tradition.

“They (Indian Marxists) have to acknowledge, honour and interpret in their own way the great leaders of the Indian democracy like M K Gandhi, B R Ambedkar, Gopal Krishna Gokhale and Rabindranath Tagore. They need to embrace the idea and practise of the multi party democracy,” he said.

“Indian Marxists are relatively noncommunal, relatively honest, relatively unlikely to use the public money to enrich their family and relatively wellread,” he said. Guha said that there were three things which he doesn’t like about Indian Marxism. “Their role models and idols are people who are alien to the country and who don’t understand the social and political dynamics of our country. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) have not yet given up its commitment to a single party dictatorship. The Indian Marxism in the past and present doesn’t admit its mistakes,” he pointed out.

Referring to the naxalite movement, Guha said that naxalites identified with the oppressed, down-trodden and the poorest of the poor.

Expressbuzz

Interactive Genocide..- IDF and SLA raise the bar

Long ago... Genocide used to be something you did without publicity,
under the cover of secrecy but all that seems to have changed now.

The Israeli Defence Forces not long ago launched their own official
youtube channel to show the latest footage of bombing of Gaza.
Elaborate videos taken from air show how exactly they killed
thousands of civilians

IDF Spokesperson's Unit
http://www.youtube.com/user/idfnadesk


The Sri Lankan Army too seems have learnt a lesson or two
in online propoganda and has quite some detailed reports of
genocide of Tamilian People in Sri Lanka.

The SLA's Interactive Website now offers a live flash Map
which is updated daily showing the various butchering hubs
of the SLA.

Their website is even Wap enabled so that you don't
have to miss even a minute of their genocide and can follow
it on your mobile !

Interactive Flash Genocide Map
http://www.defence.lk/orbat/Default.asp

You can click play on the animation button to watch the
elaborate manner in which the SL Army has pushed back
the LTTE into a corner.You can also watch videos and
pictures in the above map by clicking on suitable options.

In case some of you are wondering where the LTTE Stands
as of today you can take a look at these maps.

COBRA reaches Bastar - Maoists all set for some serious Snake Charming

Raipur: Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) personnel have reached Chhattisgarh’s tribal Bastar region, one of the worst Maoist affected regions in the country, to join the anti-Naxalite operations.

As many as 400 personnel of the CoBRA force are now based at a camp of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) at Masgaon and the remaining 657 personnel of the battalion are expected to be in Bastar by April this year, official sources said.

The Centre has agreed to provide two battalions of this newly raised commando force to tackle the growing Maoist threat.

The new force has young personnel with peak combat fitness, with specialised training, and who carry modern equipment for guerrilla tactics and jungle warfare.

The Bastar region, in the southern part of Chhattisgarh, has emerged as the epicentre of Maoist activists with the rebels stepping up violence in the region since June 2005 following the launch of anti-Naxalite movement Salwa Judum by the locals which allegedly enjoys the support of the state Government.

Official figures indicate that more than 1,400 people, including civilians and security personnel belonging to the state police as well as para-military, have lost their lives in Naxalite-related violence in this region during the last three years.

Maoists have their presence in all the five districts of Bastar region while they are proactive in south Bastar - the areas bordering neighbouring Andhra Pradesh.

A major portion of Dantewada district falls under the so-called “liberated zone of Dandakaranya”, where the rebels are said to be virtually running a parallel government. The government, however, describes the region as an “area dominated by the Maoists”.

Indianexpress

India's best and brightest continue to kill each other - India's Human resource goes down the drain

Engineer-MBA Upendra always wanted to be a cop

AMRAVATI: It wasn’t easy for Dhananjay and Rajani Guladekar to accept the fact that their only son was no longer alive. Like any other parents, they also harboured a dream that their only son Upendra will lead a successful life. But destiny played a cruel joke and broke their dream.

Police sub-inspector Upendra Guladekar, a bachelor, posted at Gyarpatti police assistance centre, in Gadchiroli district was among the cops killed in Naxal ambush in Markegaon jungle of Dhanora tehsil on Sunday. Upendra was heading a team of 14 cops on an investigation mission when Naxals ambushed the party.

Upendra’s father is a manager with Union Bank of India in Warud and his mother Rajani is a home-maker. The Guladekars have two daughters Deepti, undergoing airhostess training in Nagpur, and Sakshi. A pall of gloom descended on the family as the news of Upendra’s death reached Amravati. Many of Upendra’s friends started gathering at their residence.

Upendra always wanted to join the police force. Perhaps that’s why despite being very good in academics, he preferred to build a career in police. He did his schooling from Dnyanmata English High school and completed engineering from MIT, Pune. After that he did MBA from Symbiosis Institute, Pune.

“He had taken up a job in a private company but he didn’t get any job-satisfaction from it. Hence, he prepared for MPSC and got selected as PSI (in Gadchiroli) in 2006,” said Milind Borode, a close friend of Upendra, in a choked voice.

“Simplicity was the hallmark of Upendra. Yet, he was brilliant and well-natured. But what made him stand out was his helping nature. He was always there to help you, if he could,” Milind said.

“After his posting in Gadchiroli, we often used to talk over mobile. Invariably he would talk about the tragic and pathetic situation prevailing in Gadchiroli. Recently (on January 13) Upendra had come to Amravati. I had met him at that time. I never thought it would be our last meeting,” he said.

Upendra’s body was brought to Amravati at around 11 pm on Monday. The last rites were slated to be held later in the night.

TOI