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Polepally Sarpanch Attacked
Cartoon Courtesy AndhraJyothy
This evening (11th June 2009) around 9 0′clock, Polepally sarpanch, Balaswamy Goud was attacked near Aurabindo factory when he was going to village in his car. Group of people came in two vechicles and hit him brutally, his condition is serious, right now he’s in hospital, his car was smashed (a maruti which he recently bought). Balaswamy is around 30, unmarried , he lost both his parents when he was young, he is also a victim of Polepally SEZ too. He was committed young sarpanch and always with people in the struggle (you all know that there was mysterious death of Mr. Upender Reddy few years back, who is also very supportive and who brought this issue out).
సత్తా చాటిన సెజ్ బాధితులు
15 మంది అభ్యర్థులకు 65 వేల ఓట్లు | ప్రధాన పార్టీల గెలుపును శాసించిన ‘పోలేపల్లి’
(మహబూబ్నగర్ -ఆన్లైన్ ప్రతినిధి) మహబూబ్నగర్ పార్లమెంటుకు పోటీచేసిన పోలేపల్లి సెజ్ బాధితులు ప్రధాన పార్టీ అభ్యర్థుల గెలుపును ప్రభావితం చేశారు. 15 మంది బాధితులు పోటీచేసి 65 వేల ఓట్లు సంపాదించారు. ఇక్కడ గెలుపొందిన కేసీఆర్కు 20,184 ఓట్ల ఆధిక్యత లభించింది. సెజ్ బాధితులు పోటీలో లేకుంటే.. ఈ ఓట్లు కాంగ్రెస్కు వెళ్లివుంటే కేసీఆర్ ఓటమి బాట పట్టేవారే. ఈవిధంగా సెజ్ బాధితులు ఎన్నికల్లో పోటీచేసి తమ సమస్యను లోకానికి చాటిచెప్పారు. జడ్చర్ల ఉప ఎన్నికల్లోనూ సెజ్ బాధితులు పోటీచేసి టీఆర్ఎస్కు ఇబ్బంది కలిగించారు.
Mahabubnagar 2009 Elections Verdict
Once again Polepally played a critical role in demonstrating what the poor and the exploited villagers can still do in carrying out the struggle without compromises and using every means available in taking forward the movement against atrocious SEZ policies
Polepally would stand as a model for the strength of peoples struggle in electoral matters as well. While the established political parties of different shades in the state talk of the strength of money bags, the poor and displaced and harassed have proved they can do wonders. The strength is their struggle and commitment for people’s cause.
15 Poor People Are Not Just Vote Banks
Dear All
Now poor cannot have an acre of land. They will be killed if they refuse to part with the land. Land, livelihoods, natural resources are not for poor and oppressed castes in Andhra Pradesh. Neo-feudal politicians are for all games of cheating the people with slogans and promises with expiry date of polling day. Alliance politics are just part of the drama of looting the poor collectively after polls with active or silent support for each other.
Separatists and long-time integrationists are together. CPI-M of Maha Kutami already has plans of post poll alliance with Congress. ‘Boycott Elections’ radicals cautiously bless anti- Congress parties in present polls.
Palamoor parched lands, Telangana exploitation, weavers’ suicides in Sircilla, genocide of Koya tribe under Polavaram dam, Polepally carnage in pharma-SEZ will continue to remain after elections as well for these parties to issue once again copy of the old statements and gloss it with crocodile tears
Polepally SEZ has forty nine farmers killed since 2003 from the day TDP announced SEZ, Congress-TRS alliance government forcibly acquired the lands and harassed dalits, Muslims and bahujan communities in Polepally to offer thousand and more acres to SEZ lords for the gifts they offered to these leaders and their projects and parties that need money for next polls
Scholors today talked of Palestine struggle in Polepally village and there is also a drama titled Polepally Peenuga (Polepally Corpses). It is time we recognized Polepally killings as state killings and see these deaths as not corpses. Today’s Telangana has several protest movements. Polepally is part of it. They are waged by the people themselves.
Polepally protest movement (Polepally SEZ Vyatireka Aikya Sanghatana) had been relentless and had arrests, harassment and eviction along with rising death toll. They sought help of local TRS MLA and other parties in Mahabubnagar and Hyderabad, gave memorandums, held dharnas, meetings, gheraos, etc. Initially it elicited some sympathies here and there, some write ups on their woes, some activists showing solidarity. Then Polepally Committee decided to contest mid-term polls of May 2008. Thirteen farmers, whose lands were looted and who were rendered homeless and battered by SEZ lords and local leaders, stood in Assembly polls. The nation heard their tale and atrocities in the name of SEZ and denial of political parties (wedded to national change or regional change) to see Polepally killings. They gained 13,000 votes. And also defeated the local TRS MLA. Later NTPP Devender Goud, PRP Chiranjeevi visited Polepally village. Subsequently formed Round Table also brought TRS K Chandrasekhar Rao, TDP, CPI and CPM etc to the Polepally. All parties spoke in collective meeting to condemn Congress for the Polepally killings
Almost a year since then, no party has done anything on SEZ atrocities. Their manifestos don’t have anything on SEZ or Polepally. Some parties contesting in Mahbubnagar, and hence forced to visit Polepally for votes, talk of justice after elections. Same promises the farmers have been listening time and again for years. They decided to contest Lok Sabha polls now. They contest to tell the world that these parties have nothing different from each other and are same when it comes to the killing and eviction of the poor and selling the lands of the poor people to the SEZ lords across the state.
Political parties, politicians, and theoreticians may like to talk of things of change after years and decades after polls and next polls. But Polepally people, like people anywhere, threatened of eviction and empty stomachs want justice NOW. No theories they need, No schemes and designs of transfer of state power from one gang to other gang.
Polepally poor are contesting elections to condemn the insensitivity of our politicians and party spokespersons and ideologues and vulgarization of politics where people are reduced to only voters. What else is left to be robbed off from the poor!
Polepally is contesting Lok Sabha and has visitors of all shades- the contestants, the visitors, media, intellectuals and revolutionaries- because they are voters and it is the auspicious time to meet them.
Conscientious, wise and radical forces of the society posed hundred questions to Polepally poor. The evicted, hungry, landless poor contestants are posed with lots of questions by so many who never bothered to see the village that was reeling under deaths.
Right, Left, centrist, radical, and Telangana parties and their intellectuals as well as ‘poll time Telangana activists’ from the region and abroad ask the Polepally poor why they contest elections? Why not confine to the struggle? Why to contest now when Telangana chief KCR is in the fray? And so on.
Polepally poor contestants who are moving village to village without any resources and fleet of cars and bags of money are asking why these parties did not fight for them, why they kept silent on the killings and why they have not stopped the SEZ atrocities.
Polepally people say they are contesting today because these political parties have abandoned them. You have ignored our deaths, you have left us to the pack of SEZ devils, you have forgotten that we are part of Palamoor and that Palamoor killings are part of Telangana tragedy, because you have forgotten that we are people and you have seen us as mere voters to fill your ballot boxes. Because you failed us, we are contesting now
Did any of the politicians, intellectuals, activists and revolutionaries find ever an auspicious time to visit Polepally earlier?
దొరలార మమ్మల్ని అనాధలను చేసిండ్లు. నాయకులు మీరు, సదువుకొన్నొల్లు మీరు, నీతి చెప్పెటోల్లు, మా ఊర్లు ఆగమయితానై మా వోల్లు చస్తాండ్లు అని మొర చెప్పుకొంటె ఇనకపోతిరి. మా సావులను కూడ పట్టిచ్చుకోక పోతిరి. మా భూములను మాకిప్పియ్యండి, గీ సెజ్ ను తీసెయ్యుండ్లి అని ప్రతి ఒక్కరి కాల్లు పట్టుకొంటిమి. మమ్మల్ని ఆగం ఆగం చేసిండ్లుగదా.
మా బతుకులు మా సావులు వోట్లకు తప్ప పనికిరాకుండ అయిపాయె. గియ్యాల వొస్తిరి మా ఊరుకు, మా వొట్లడగబడ్తిరి. ఎందరికని ఎయ్యాలే? ఎవ్వనికెయ్యాలే?
ఇక్కడ పీనుగలు లేవు. దేశం మమ్మల్ని సంపుతాంది. దేశంల ఉన్న దొరలందరు పోలేపల్లిల చేసిన హత్యలు ఇవి.
రాజ్యాలు మారినంక, రాజులు మారినంకనె మా ఊరు గోస ఇంటమంటిరి. మాకున్నయన్నీ పాయె. మాకున్న వోటును గూడ మాకొద్దనబడ్తిరి. ఉన్నయన్నీ దోసుకున్న దెసంల మా వోటును కూడ ఒదులుకుంటె మమ్మల్నెవ్వదు కానుతడు. మా బతుకుల్ని మా సావుల్ని కాకుండ మా వోట్లనె సూశేటోనికి మేమెయ్యం. మా వోటు మాకే ఉండనియ్యుండ్లి. గదొక్కటన్న మిగలనియ్యుండ్లి.
ధర్మాత్ములయితె మా వోట్లని కాదు మా బతుకుల్ని సావుల్ని సూడుండ్లి. ధర్మాత్ములయితె మా తోని ఉండండి.
Condemn Pharma SEZ Killings!
Save Polepally! Save Telangana People!!
Sujatha Surepally
Polepally Farmers Need Your Support
మన సద్దులు మన సుద్దులు
మన వనర్లు మన బతుకులు
మనం తీర్చిదిద్దుకునే
తెలంగాణ తేవాలె
- వరవర రావు
Dear Friends,
Thanks to all friends who have given the moral support to Polepally team in their fight for justice. Sixteen candidates from Polepally have filed nominations against all odds.
It would not have been possible without the support of many friends and more particularly the timely support and encouragement of Bharath Bhushan, Vidya Bhushan Rawat, Radha Reddy, Vanaja and Biju Mathew, who met Polepally team in the recent press meet and also visited the village once and continued to extend the support their struggle in all forms.
బ్యాలెట్టే నిరసన బావుటా
- సుజాత సూరేపల్లి
అభివృద్ధి పేరిట ప్రభుత్వం అమలు పరుస్తున్న వివిధ ప్రాజెక్టులు చట్ట విరుద్ధమైనవి. పేదల జీవనాధారాలను హరించివేయడమే కాదు పర్యావరణానికి కూడా ఎనలేని నష్టాన్ని కలుగజేస్తున్నాయి. ప్రధాన స్రవంతి రాజకీయ పక్షాలేవీ వీటికి వ్యతిరేకంగా ఉద్యమించడం లేదు. పేదల హక్కులను కాపాడడం లేదు. ఈ పరిస్థితులలో పేదలు తమకుతామే పోరాడక తప్పదు.
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Electoral Reforms to Save Democracy- Polepally Struggle
Why the poor must contest in elections?
Our Constitution declares that we are “Sovereign, Socialist, Secular, and Democratic Republic”. Our democracy is the symbolic representation and acknowledgment of different identities of class, caste, gender, ethnic, minority communities unique of our geographical, historical, social background. Election process in India is an important feature of our democracy. Elections remain critical structure of the governance in the country since the first general elections in 1951, despite its bias towards protecting the interest of the dominant community to the exclusion of dalit, bahujan, adivasis, minorities, women among other vulnerable groups.
Polepally Victims Plan Long Dharna
Friends,
Today we had a review meeting in the mango farm, adjacent to Polepally SEZ. Whole farm is sold out to housing plots. The meeting was held in the shade of the orchard that is about to vanish shortly. All surrounding areas have now become real estate properties of people sitting elsewhere with money bags. That entire area wears a radically different image with the SEZ. One can’t see any more signs of a village. Telangana village is broken into hi-tech roads. For a moment one would feel it is some industrial area of Delhi, or Vizag steel plant. I saw small children and men sweating as they sit in hot mid day painting the road divider. Hi-tech roads that devoured the villages and the people and their lives that used to be here until very recently. Oorunu mingina roadduku rangula nagisheelu chekkinattu unnadhi
Polepally SEZ Claims Yet Another Life
Today Kanduri Nagamma, aged about 38, took her last breath leaving her children and her land Polepally. She is been fighting with life for last 20 days in Mahbubnagar hospital. Polepally SEZ Vyathireka Ikya Sanghatana did dharna in front of hospital when it refused to admit her and provide medical facilities while she was struggling for life after she consumed pesticide. The corporate hospital says that she doesnt fall under ‘Arogyasree’ because it does not cover cases of snake bite, poison and accidents. Now a poor man cannot die in a manner that government schemes do not understand
Voices of people fighting displacement
Our team visited different places in last three days. Our aim is to invite activists to come to a common agenda and platform to pressurize state. We thought of organising a big programme in Hyderabad in December with all the movements who are raising voice against this so called development and displacing their lives and villages. We visited Vizag Coastal corridor struggle groups, Gangavaram port Matsyakarula Ikya vedika, Girijana Sangam Araku, fighting against Jindal Bauxite mining, Rayavani Palem, Bauxite Vyatireka Porata Committee, Vizianagarm district.
ఇంకొ పానం బలై పోయిందా !
రాములన్న క్షమించే
నాలుగేండ్లు నలభై మంది సచ్చినా
ఎవరెన్ని చెప్పినా అన్యాయాన్ని ఎదిరించి పోరాడినా
అన్నా ఇంకొక దీపం ఆరిపోకుండ ఆపుకోలేకపోయినమే
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Perverted development takes one more life
One more farmer lost his life on the altar of SEZ development in Polepally !
Ramulu Goud (48) of Rapally village passed away today. He lost his piece of land in Polepally village. He could not take further pain and loss of hope reducing him from a farmer to a helpless beneficiary of the mercy of SEZ lords and APIIC officials. Depression claimed his life. Read the rest of this entry »
GO 34 of Coastal Corridor is cancelled
Its been a great day. Mega destruction is partially been stopped by Congress Govt by withdrawing coastal corridor. The coastal corridor is at last cancelled, Minister, Mopi Devi declared it today. Withdrawal of two Government Orders No. 34 , helped the bureaucrat-politician- industry nexus to grab 51,000 acres from Srikakulam to Tada is most news! We are not sure whether its another political drama to suspend the movement till the elections. (Read More…)
All Political party MAHA DHARNA at Polepally
Finally Polepally brought all the political parties of the state to the village challenging SEZ atrocities. Recently a Round Table conference of all opposition parties was held at Hyderabad on 19th under the leadership of Dr. Narayana, General Secretary, Communist Party of India (CPI). They identified few issues to fight together and they started from Polepally. Major parties like CPI, CPI (M), CPI ML, CPI (New Democracy) Janata Dal (S), Loksatta, MBT, Praja Rajyam, TDP, and TRS came to Polepally.
పార్టీలోల్లకి పోలేపల్లి దండాలు
అయ్యలార, మీకు పేరు పేరున దండాలు!
గీనాటికైనా మీ బంగ్లాల నుంచి మా ఊరికొచ్చిండ్లు
కెమరాలనెంటేసుకొని కొంత సమయాన్నిచ్చిండ్లు
నవ్వుకుంట కలిసిమెల్సి బండ్ల మీద వొచ్చిండ్లు
