What are the demands of naxalites?

Answer 1

Here is a set of demands of the People's War (P.W.), listed under 10 categories.

I. A democratic atmosphere should be created in the State. The government should respect people's right to fight for their democratic demands.

• The government should not prevent agitations, peaceful demonstrations and meetings.
• Lift the ban on the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) P.W. and other organisations.
• Scrap the system of rewards on workers of P.W., People's Guerilla Army and other mass organisations.
• Scrap Grey Hounds, Special Security Forces, and the Special Intelligence Branch (SIB) and withdraw the Central paramilitary forces.
• Release all political prisoners.
• Scrap the system of giving acceleratory promotions and unofficial incentives to police officers who kill naxalites in fake encounters.
• Scrap the informant network in villages. The government should end the practice of winning over P.W. workers and using them as covert agents.
• Control `lumpen' gangs such as Green Tigers, Kranti Sena, Palnadu Tigers, Tirumala Tigers and Nayeem Gang.
• Order a judicial probe into all fake encounters and punish the police officers responsible.
• Lift all cases registered against workers of mass organisations and other revolutionary parties.

II. Implement reforms in the agricultural sector.

• Implement land reforms. Handover to the occupants the endowment, government, and forest land and lands belonging to landlords already occupied by people.
• Implement the Land Ceiling Act.
• Complete all pending irrigation projects. Farmers should be given irrigation facilities and supplied adequate power.
• Waive all private loans taken by the farming community to stop suicides by farmers.
• Prepare a permanent and integrated plan for tackling the drought situation.
• Scrap corporate agriculture.

III. Implement policies of industrialisation and other schemes based on local resources in place of the liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation policies being followed now.

• Withdraw all World Bank projects and schemes supported by imperialists.
• Stop the retrenchment of workers and the privatisation of public sector enterprises (PSEs).
• Protect small- and medium-scale industries from competition by multinational companies (MNCs) and revive cooperative and other PSEs.
• Withdraw user charges on drinking water, education and health services.
• Scrap all agreements with the World Bank, MNCs and other countries.

IV. Recognise the tribal people's rights on forest.

• Announce autonomy for the tribal people.
• Implement the "1/70 Act", which provides protection against the alienation of land held by tribal people in scheduled areas to non-tribal people. Stop settling of non-tribal people in areas inhabited by tribal people.
• Initiate steps to develop and support tribal languages.

V. Form a separate Telangana State.

VI. Formulate an integrated plan for the development of backward regions of North Coastal and Rayalasseema areas.

VII. Punish those who belittle the self-respect of Dalits. Take action against police officers and upper-caste members responsible for attacks on Dalits in Karamchedu, Tsundur, Neerukonda and Vempenta.

• Provide job reservation for Dalits in the private sector.

VIII. Equal property rights for women.

• Reservation for women in the private sector.
• Stringent punishment for those who commit atrocities on women.

IX. Implement total prohibition.

X. Order a probe into the illegal amassing of wealth by officials, politicians and capitalists; corruption scandals by officials and politicians.

• Recover money from the affluent who evade taxes.