CPDR flays AP govt’s policies

“Purushottam who was not even a part of the Naxalite movement, was an advocate and jont-secretary of the Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee,” said noted poet and member of the Revolutionary Writers’ Association, Varavara Rao today. “He was working and investigating the fake encounters happening in the state,” Rao stated.

He remarked that such killings of people working in the civil liberties movement was because the state could not crack down on the Naxalites who were functioning from underground. “So they pick up such vulnerable targets like Purushottam,” said Rao.

He charged that the state was using surrendered Naxalites as private armies to stem the resistance to its policies. “It is only under the regime of Chandrababu Naidu such killings and fake encounters have reached such a high proportion. This was the fifth killing of a civil liberties person, in his regime, Rao charged.

He contended that the state repress was high because the state is witnessing a clash between two different development models. One was the WB-sponsored model fuelled by MNC, while the other was self-reliant model initiated by the Marxist-Leninist movements where village get water, primary schools, land is given to the killer and the emphasis is on self-reliance.

“AP is not first Banjara Hills, there are villages in AP where people are dying for lack of food. Old Hyderabad has malaria, Diarrhoea. There, is no jobs for youth and the 40 per cent Muslim population lives like Dalit in the state,” he said.

Urging people to bring presure on the AP government, the CPDR also passed a resolution condemning the killing of Purushottam.