The National Democratic Front of the Philippines International Office condemns in the strongest terms Operation Kagaar and the Indian reactionary state’s declared objective of making the country “Maoist-free” by March 31, 2026. In pursuit of this objective, the fascist Modi regime is carrying out a genocide against the Adivasi people and a war of annihilation against the fighting Indian masses which reveals the true character of the ongoing military campaign in Adivasi regions: a counterrevolutionary war aimed not merely at armed revolutionary forces, but at the political, social, and material foundations of people’s resistance.
First launched in January 2024, Operation Kagaar is part of a long-running and escalating counterrevolutionary effort to suppress the people’s war in India. Under the banner of achieving a “Maoist-free India,” the Modi government has designated entire Adivasi regions such as Abujhmad in the southern state of Chhattisgarh as “enemy territory.” In practice, this has meant the collective punishment of Adivasi communities whose mineral-rich lands are coveted by big Indian and foreign corporations. Villages are militarized, civilians are treated as combatants, and any assertion of collective rights over land and resources is branded as subversive or terrorist.
The revolutionary struggle of the Indian people arises from concrete and enduring conditions of exploitation and oppression embedded in the semi-feudal and semi-colonial character of Indian society. Vast sections of the population such as Dalits and other scheduled castes, continue to suffer from landlessness, caste oppression, and the violent dispossession imposed by local and foreign capitalist investors. For the Adivasi people in particular, this oppression has taken a distinctly genocidal form for decades. Since the post-independence consolidation of the Indian state in the early 1960s, Adivasi territories have been subjected to continuous militarization, forced displacement and relentless state terror. Counterrevolutionary campaigns from earlier decades such as Salwa Judum (2005-2011) and Operation Green Hunt (2009-2024) to the present-day Operation Kagaar represent successive phases of state terrorism against the Adivasis, Dalits and other scheduled castes, and is precisely what provides the objective basis for the Indian people’s armed revolutionary struggle.
Since the launch of Operation Kagaar in January 2024, the scale of violence has intensified. According to independent estimates, at least 550 individuals identified by the state as Maoists have been killed in the course of the campaign. This includes the killing of Namballa Kesava Rao, known as Comrade Basavaraj, on May 21, 2025. Comrade Basavaraj was the General Secretary of Communist Party of India (Maoist). He was martyred by fascist state security forces alongside 27 other fighters of the People’s Liberation Guerilla Army (PLGA) in the dense Abujhmad forests of Narayanpur district in the state of Chhattisgarh.
This experience closely mirrors that of the Philippines, where successive reactionary regimes, under direct guidance and material support from US imperialism, have launched a series of “counterinsurgency” programs aimed at making the country “insurgency-free.” From one Oplan to another, these campaigns sought the decisive defeat of the revolutionary movement of the Filipino people. Instead, they produced widespread human rights violations and violations of international humanitarian law, the militarization of peasant and indigenous communities, intensified land grabbing and resource extraction, and the further political isolation of these successive regimes from the people
Despite decades of brutal repression, the people’s democratic revolution in the Philippines has endured and advanced, because it is rooted in the concrete struggles of the masses and sustained by their aspirations for national liberation and social justice. The failure of these counterrevolutionary Oplans exposes the fundamental truth that reactionary violence cannot extinguish a revolution born of necessity.
Down with Operation Kagaar!
Support the Indian people’s struggle for national and social liberation!
Long live the PLGA!
Long live the CPI (Maoist)!
Long live international solidarity!
Source : https://philippinerevolution.nu/statements/down-with-operation-kagaar-support-the-indian-peoples-struggle-for-national-and-social-liberation/