Katakam Sudarshan

Last updated

Katakam Sudarshan
Born
Adilabad, Andhra Pradesh
Died(2023-05-31)31 May 2023
NationalityIndian
Other namesAnand
Organization Communist Party of India (Maoist)
Known forA cadre, Politburo and Central Military Commission member of CPI (Maoist)
SpouseSadhana

Katakam Sudarshan (died 31 May 2023), commonly known by his nom de guerre Anand (Hindi pronunciation: [aːnŋd̪] ), was an Indian politician who was a Politburo [1] member of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), a banned [2] Maoist insurgent [3] communist party in India.

Contents

Early life and family

Anand was born at Adilabad in Andhra Pradesh, and pursued education at the government polytechnic college, in Warangal. [4] He worked as a teacher to financially support his higher education. [4] He married the Adiladab district secretary of CPI (Maoist), Sadhana. [1] She was gunned down by the police force, few years back. [4]

Guerrilla life

Anand was one of the senior-most cadres of the ultra-leftist political party, [4] and led the ongoing armed struggle from northern Telangana to Dandakaranya, for over 30 years. [5] He was described by Indian police as a "soft spoken" person, an "orthodox" Maoist and a "hardline strategist". [1] He was prominently known for chalking out the policies of the party in the political arena, and upheld that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. [1]

After the completion of his studies, Anand joined the radical leftists in 1975; and in 1979, he shifted to Chhattisgarh. [4] In the 1980s, he became a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) People's War (People's War Group), founded by Kondapalli Seetharamaiah. [5] He was famous for his "ruthless guerilla warfare tactics" and was designated the duty of training the cadres in "guerrilla warfare", and planning "military precision strikes" on the armed forces, in the territory of Chhattisgarh. [4]

Anand was a Central Military Commission [4] and Politburo member of CPI (Maoist), and was believed to be heading the Eastern Regional Bureau of the party, after Kishenji's elimination in the ongoing Maoist movement in India. [1] He also worked as the chief of the Central Regional Bureau of the CPI (Maoist).

Responding on a question about the Indian government's "Operation Green Hunt" during an interview, he said to journalists, "We have been in the middle of a cruel, bitter war for several years." [5] In 2010, he told media personnel that out of the 45 members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), 8 had been arrested and 22 had been killed by the agencies of the Indian government. [5] He was also reportedly working on the task to attempt stalling the "Operation Green Hunt". [5]

A senior police officer once told Hindustan Times that "Sudarshan was not a pacifist like Azad and was against his party's initiative to hold talks with the government." [1]

Death

Anand died of a heart attack on 31 May 2023. [6]

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Communist Party of India (Maoist)</span> Maoist political party and militant group in India

The Communist Party of India (Maoist) is a banned Marxist–Leninist–Maoist communist political party and militant organization in India which aims to overthrow the "semi-colonial and semi-feudal Indian state" through protracted people's war. It was founded on 21 September 2004, through the merger of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) People's War (People's War Group) and the Maoist Communist Centre of India (MCCI). The party has been designated as a terrorist organisation in India under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act since 2009.

Communism in India has existed as a social or political ideology as well as a political movement since at least as early as the 1920s. In its early years, communist ideology was harshly suppressed through legal prohibitions and criminal prosecutions. Eventually, communist parties became ensconced in national party politics, sprouting several political offshoots.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Naxalite–Maoist insurgency</span> Armed conflict in India between the state and Maoists

The Naxalite–Maoist insurgency is an ongoing conflict between Maoist groups known as Naxalites or Naxals and the Indian government. The influence zone of the Naxalites is called the red corridor, which has been steadily declining in terms of geographical coverage and number of violent incidents, and in 2021 it was confined to the 25 "most affected" locations, accounting for 85% of Left Wing Extremism (LWE) violence, and 70 "total affected" districts across 10 states in two coal-rich, remote, forested hilly clusters in and around the Dandakaranya-Chhattisgarh-Odisha region and the tri-junction area of Jharkhand, Bihar, and West Bengal. The Naxalites have frequently targeted police and government workers in what they say is a fight for improved land rights and more jobs for neglected agricultural labourers and the poor.

Kobad Ghandy is an Indian communist activist and ideologue. He became involved in revolutionary politics whilst a student in England in the 1970s, and worked as an organizer for the civil rights movement in India. He was a founding member of the Committee for the Protection of Democratic Rights. He was arrested on the accusation of being a politburo member of the underground Communist Party of India (Maoist) in 2009. He was acquitted and released after almost a decade in jail in 2019.

This is a timeline of the 1967–present Naxalite–Maoist insurgency in eastern India.

Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) People's War, usually called People's War Group (PWG), was an underground communist party in India. It merged with the Maoist Communist Centre of India to form the Communist Party of India (Maoist) in 2004. Muppala Lakshmana Rao ('Ganapathi') was the general secretary of the party. The ideology of the party was Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.

Mallojula Koteswara Rao, commonly known by his nom de guerreKishenji, was an Indian political leader who was a Politburo and Central Military Commission member of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), a banned revolutionary organization in India; and also the party's military leader. He was seen as "The Face of the Maoism in India".

Prashant Bose, commonly known by his nom de guerre Kishan or Kishan da is an Indian politician who is a senior Politburo member of the Communist Party of India (Maoist). He has previously used Nirbhay Mukherjee, Kajal, Kishan-da and Mahesh as aliases. Kishan, the former MCCI chief is now No. 2 in the CPI (Maoist). He is in charge of Bihar and Jharkhand and heading the Party's Eastern Regional Bureau. And this Bengali Maoist leader, 74 in age is also a known intellectual of the party. He joined in Naxalite movements as a trade union activist in 1967 and continued to play a key role in Left-wing politics in India.

Cherukuri Rajkumar was an Indian politician who was the spokesperson and one of the seniormost members of the Central Politburo of the banned Maoist group Communist Party of India (Maoist). On 1 July 2010, he was killed by Andhra Pradesh Police in an encounter.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anuradha Ghandy</span> Indian communist and revolutionary

Anuradha Ghandy was an Indian communist, writer, and revolutionary leader. She was a Central Committee member of the Communist Party of India (Maoist). She was one of the founding members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist), in Maharashtra.

Narmada was an Indian politician who was one of the "senior-most" female cadres of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), a banned Maoist insurgent communist party in India. She was a Central Committee member of the party, and reportedly used to frame "all policies for the female cadre of Maoists."

Kadari Satyanarayan Reddy, commonly known by his nom de guerre, Kosa, was an Indian politician who was a Central Committee member of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), a banned Maoist insurgent communist party in India.

The People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) is the armed wing of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), a banned political organisation in India which aims to overthrow the Indian Government through protracted people's war.

Sushital Ray Chowdhary was an Indian Communist intellectual and founder member of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist). He was the editor of the organs of the CPI, CPI(M) and CPI(ML). He eventually fell out with the mainstream Charu Majumdar group and died of a heart attack in March, 1971.

Narayan Sanyal commonly known as Bijoy da and Naveen Prasad was a Maoist ideologue and a Politburo member of the Communist Party of India (Maoist). He was one of the earliest comrade of Naxal leader Charu Majumdar and member of undivided Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist). It is claimed that at the time of arrest Narayan Sanyal was next only to CPI (Maoist) the then general secretary Muppala Lakshmana Rao alias Ganapathy.

Mallojula Venugopal, commonly known by his nom de guerreAbhay, is a Politburo and Central Military Commission member of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), a banned Maoist insurgent communist party in India.

Baccha Prasad Singh alias Balraj alias Arvind is an Indian Maoist politician and Politburo member of Communist Party of India (Maoist)

Nambala Keshava Rao, commonly known by his nom de guerre Basavraj or Gaganna, is an Indian Maoist politician and General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), currently on NIA's list of most wanted absconders.

Ashutosh Tudu is an Indian Maoist politician and politburo member of Communist Party of India (Maoist).

Madvi Hidma is the youngest member of the Central Committee of Communist Party of India (Maoist). Hidma is allegedly responsible for various attacks on the security forces in Chhattisgarh, and the 2013 Naxal attack in Darbha valley. A bounty has been placed for his capture.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Bhattacharya, Ravik (23 November 2012). "Hardline strategist to replace Kishenji". Hindustan Times . Kolkata: HT Media Ltd. Archived from the original on 24 November 2012. Retrieved 31 May 2013.
  2. ↑ LIST OF ORGANISATIONS DECLARED AS TERRORIST ORGANISATIONS UNDER THE UNLAWFUL ACTIVITIES (PREVENTION) ACT, 1967 Archived 28 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine — Ministry of Home Affairs. Retrieved 6 June 2013.
  3. ↑ Deepak Kapoor (2009). South Asia Defence And Strategic Year Book. Pentagon Press. pp. 62–63. ISBN   978-81-8274-399-1.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Janyala, Sreenivas (9 April 2010). "The men who run Dandakaranya". The Indian Express . Hyderabad: Indian Express Group . Retrieved 31 May 2013.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Radhakrishna, G.S. (7 April 2010). "Portrait of 'mastermind'". The Telegraph . Kolkata: ABP Group. Archived from the original on 17 June 2013. Retrieved 31 May 2013.
  6. ↑ Maoist leader Katakam Sudarshan passes away
Video
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.