People's Democracy(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
Vol. XXXVII
No. 31 August 04 , 2013 |
Amra Ram
and Hannan Mollah Elected as New
President and Gen-Sec of AIKS THE
33rd all S
Ramachandran Pillai, K Varadharajan, Madan Ghosh, S Malla
Reddy, Abdul Rezzak
Mollah and K Balakrishnan have been elected as vice
presidents of the
organisation while Surjyakanta Mishra, Bajuban Reyang, N K
Shukla, Vijoo
Krishnan, Ashok Dhawale, E P Jayarajan and Nripen Choudhary
have been elected
as joint secretaries. P Krishna Prasad is the new finance
secretary. As
per the AIKS Constitution, it is the all Hannan
Mollah in his address to the conference called upon all
state committees to
undertake sustained, militant struggles on farmers issues
till the governments
are forced to reverse the anti-farmer policies. “Wherever a
farmer commits
suicide, we must get into action immediately. Get onto the
streets, gherao
the bank manager or sahukar or whoever is
responsible for the death at
the local level. Pressurise the authorities through militant
struggles”, he
said. Mollah said that in the coming period a countrywide
militant struggle
will be organised on certain major demands of the peasantry.
Earlier,
Pillai moved a resolution 'In Tribute to Comrade Jyoti Basu'
which was seconded
by Varadharajan. The resolution that stated “The 33rd
conference of the All
India Kisan Sabha pays homage to the memory of Comrade Jyoti
Basu, and is proud
to participate in the celebrations organised in connection
with his centenary
year all over the country”, was unanimously adopted by the
conference. Another
resolution “In Tribute to Comrade P Sundarayya was also
moved by Pillai and
seconded by Varadharajan was also unanimously adopted by the
conference. It was
stated “This 33rd conference of the All India Kisan Sabha
salutes the memory of
Comrade P Sundarayya, and takes the utmost pride in being
among the inheritors
of his legacy. We will strive to live up to his example, to
carry through the
tasks and struggles that he began, and to strive to complete
the most important
social task before our country – the revolutionary solution
of the agrarian
question in India.” Resolutions
on Food Security, Fertiliser Prices, Natural Calamities,
against Communal and
Divisive forces, against government decision to allow FDI
into agriculture,
against government attitude to ICDS and other schemes were
also passed by the
33rd conference. The conference concluded with a vote of
thanks by P Shanmugam,
secretary of the Reception Committee and felicitation of
convenors of various
sub committees of the Reception Committee who strived day
and night to make the
conference a grand success. (NSA)