India’s revolutionary movement held various activities to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA), the armed wing of the Communist Party of India (Maoist). A week of celebrations was set from December 2 to December 8.
According to the CPI (Maoist), the activities and gatherings conducted by its branches, PLGA units, and revolutionary masses were unlike those in previous years. They were carried out with strict security protocols and precaution because of the reactionary Indian state’s intensified attacks against the revolutionary movement and the masses, under the framework of Operation Kagaar.
Group meetings and small assemblies were held in forests, plains, and urban centers. Revolutionaries posted and distributed posters and leaflets to call for strengthening and joining the PLGA.
The PLGA has for 25 years persevered in advancing the people’s war to achieve the new democratic revolution as guided by the Party. Since the armed force was founded on December 2, 2000, it has defeated the ruling reactionary Indian state’s repeated attempts to end and crush the people’s revolutionary struggle.
However, the CPI (Maoist) openly acknowledged that during the past two years, the Party, the PLGA, and the entire revolutionary movement have suffered major setbacks. According to the Party leadership, these were the result of internal weaknesses, failure to implement the Central Committee’s plans, and intensified state attacks under Operation Kagaar since January 2024.
In the report of the Central Military Commission of the CPI (Maoist), one of the mistakes in waging the people’s war was the failure of some PLGA troops to withdraw from the Dandakaranya region to other areas. Dandakaranya includes Abujhmaad (or Maad), a mountainous and forested area in the south of Chhattisgarh state, which has become Operation Kagaar’s epicenter.
At the height of the intense attacks by the reactionary state from December 2024 to November this year, at least 320 revolutionaries were martyred, 117 of them women. At least 237 of those martyred were Party members. Eight were Central Committee members, 15 state committee members, 25 are from district committees, and 73 are from area committees.
The Party, the PLGA, and the revolutionary masses fought courageously amid these losses. In battles in Dandakaranya, Bihar and Jharkhand, East Bihar and North East Jharkhand, Odisha, and MMC, the PLGA killed 116 and wounded at least 208 members of the reactionary state forces. The PLGA mainly used explosives in its operations.
To recover from setbacks and advance, the CPI (Maoist) called for rectifying mistakes in practice during the past 22 months. “Let us rectify these. Let us correctly implement the strategies formulated by the Central Committee and the Political Bureau,” the Central Military Commission stated.
The leadership of the CPI (Maoist) expressed its determination to continue leading the PLGA and the revolutionary movement with firm resolve and unmatched courage. It said that the celebration of the PLGA anniversary is part of this determination to move forward.
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