All India Kisan Sabha, Maharashtra: Condemn the brutal attack on Abdul Rezzack Mollah by TMC goons

Sunday, January 6, 2013

Condemn the brutal attack on Abdul Rezzack Mollah by TMC goons

The All India Kisan Sabha condemns the brutal attack on Comrade Abdul Rezzack Mollah by Trinamool Congress goons led by former MLA and history-sheeter Arabul Islam. We demand immediate arrest of the perpetrators of the crime.

Rezzack Mollah is a senior leader of the Kisan Sabha and member of the Central Kisan Committee. He has been a popular leader who has been elected 8 times to the West Bengal Assembly and also held important ministerial responsibilities during different Left Front Governments.

Comrade Mollah had gone to visit Kantatala in South 24 Paraganas District where the Trinamool Congress goons had burnt down a office of the CPI (M) on 5^th January when the Trinamool goons made the murderous attack on him. The police officials were mute spectators to the violent attack on him. He suffered serious injuries in the attack and is undergoing treatment.

The Trinamool Congress is grossly mistaken if they believe they can stifle voices of protest through violent attacks and politics of physical annihilation. Kisan Sabha and the democratic forces will build resistance to the politics of violence and intimidation and respond with a wave of protests against the brutal attack on our leader. AIKS calls upon our units to protest against this attack and call upon all democratic sections to respond as well as isolate the perpetrators of the heinous attack.

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All India Kisan Sabha (अखिल भारतीय किसान सभा; AIKS), is the largest national organisation representing peasants in India, with a membership of 2,25,81,308 (22.58 million). The AIKS, which was formed at its first conference on April 11, 1936 at Lucknow, has a glorious 75-year history. It played a stellar role in arousing the peasantry against British imperialism in the movement for national freedom. It was able to unite various sections of the peasantry in the struggle against feudalism, big traders and monopolists. The AIKS led historic peasant struggles in Telangana in Andhra Pradesh, Tebhaga in West Bengal, Punnapra-Vayalar and North Malabar in Kerala, Surma Valley in Assam and tribal movements in Tripura and Maharashtra.

In the period after independence, it has continued to organise peasants against the anti-peasant policies of the government. These policies have acquired a particularly disastrous nature during the last two decades of neo-liberalism, leading to suicides of over 2.5 lakh debt-ridden peasants in the last 15 years. The strong peasant movement built by the AIKS has contributed to the formation of the Left-led state governments in West Bengal, Kerala and Tripura.

The AIKS believes that a powerful agrarian movement has to be built on alternative policies centred on the interests of the poor peasants and agricultural workers, both of whom constitute the overwhelming majority of the Indian peasantry. The AIKS is clear that only a thoroughgoing agrarian revolution can truly solve the deep and growing crisis in Indian agriculture.

Some of the towering peasant leaders of the AIKS have been Swami Sahajanand Saraswati, Muzaffar Ahmad, P Sundarayya, A K Gopalan, E M S Namboodiripad, M Basavapunnaiah, Hare Hrishna Konar, Benoy Krishna Choudhary, Dasharath Deb, M A Rasul, Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Godavari Parulekar and Krantisimha Nana Patil.

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