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CPI(ML) is not a naxalite outfit: leader

By Our Staff Correspondent

MADIKERI, MARCH 31. Manasayya, a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Central Committee, has decried what he termed efforts being made by the State Government to label the organisation a naxalite outfit.

The district administration and the police are trying to browbeat the CPI(ML) cadre, he told presspersons here on Wednesday.

He, however, clarified that though the CPI(ML) created the naxal movement in West Bengal in the mid-Sixties, the party's fight is against the system and well within democratic means.

Those who indulge in violence in the name of naxalism are activists of the CPI (Maoist) and not the CPI(ML), he said.

The CPI(ML) stands for the cause of the poor and the oppressed and is in favour of organising people to fight social injustice, he said. When persistently questioned, Mr. Manasayya said every individual or group has the right to take up arms for self-defence.

Congress blamed

The Congress and the CPI (Maoist) should be blamed for labelling the CPI(ML) cadre naxalites, Mr. Manasayya said. Of late, the Sangh Parivar has also added its voice to this propaganda. No one has a clear understanding of the goals of the CPI(ML), he said.

He criticised the police for raiding two houses of D.C. Nirvanappa, district Secretary of the CPI(ML) recently on the charge of abetting naxalite activities. Mr. Nirvanappa was arrested and later released.

The police and the district administration should desist from misleading people by terming us naxalites, he said.

Poor neglected

Mr. Manasayya blamed the Union and the State Governments for neglecting the poor. The CPI(ML) will organise struggles against these anomalies, he said.

The CPI(ML) calls upon the CPI (Maoist) to give up arms and achieve its goals through democratic means, he said.

"We are revolutionary communists, not terrorists," he added

Mr. Nirvanappa alleged that a self-styled leader of an organisation in Somwarpet, who has turned a police informant, is misguiding the police to initiate action against CPI(ML) activists in the district.

He said over 200 sympathisers of the CPI(ML) in the district attended the Vijayawada rally organised by the party in Andhra Pradesh recently. The CPI (ML-Red Flag) merged with the CPI(ML) at the Vijayawada rally, he added.

H.E. Sannayya, a representative of the Kodagu District Revolutionary Youth Front; B.K. Appu of Adivasi Sangha; and B. Rudrayya, State Committee member of the CPI(ML), were present on the occasion.

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