A thousand salutes to Nambala Keshav Rao and the 27 comrades!
Revolutionaries die, but the revolution continues!
It is with deep pain and anger that we have learned that 28 male and female people's fighters, including Comrade Nambala Keshav Rao, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), who was leading a revolutionary struggle for people's power against the fascist regime under Modi, the capitalist exploitative order, and imperialism, as well as commanders and leading cadres of the State Committees and the CPYPC, were martyred on 21 May after 60 hours of resistance against tens of thousands of enemy forces.
The Communist Party of India (Maoist) was well aware of the price it would pay and the dangers it would face when it declared its formation on 21 September 2004, in the struggle for the unity of revolutionary parties and groups opposing the liquidation wave of 1990-91. The martyrdom of its leading cadres, who have carried out crucial responsibilities since its foundation until today, its most important militants, and many fighters, has not been able to stop the CPI (Maoist). It has organized the toiling rural population and the urban poor of India, mobilizing them for the struggle. It has succeeded in winning the sympathy and support of broad and diverse sections of the masses, including intellectuals and artists. It has thwarted the attacks of the Indian state that sought to break its will and force it to surrender. In the 21st century, it has earned the honor of being one of the parties that has kept revolutionary hope alive on a global scale.
The massacre of 21 May is not independent of the plans of the world imperialist bourgeoisie to wipe out the world revolutionary forces, whose numbers are severely limited following the liquidation wave of 90-91. Especially in the last two decades, there has been intense international work to destroy communist and revolutionary parties that are determined to lead the political struggle through all forms of free organization and struggle, or to force them to abandon the armed struggle. This will intensify in the future. The workers, laborers, women, the poor, the youth, and the oppressed peoples are being rendered incapable of defending themselves and condemned to helplessness in the face of bourgeois states and fascist regimes armed to the teeth. The Indian working class, along with the urban and rural poor, will show through their organization and revolutionary struggle that this is a hopeless tendency. The CPI (Maoist) will succeed in healing the wounds of the 21 May massacre, no matter how severe they may be.
We salute Comrade Inside Nambala Keshav Rao/Basavaraju, Nageshwar Rao (Madhu, Jung Naveen), Sangeetha, Bhumika, Vivek; Chandan (Mahesh), Guddu and Rame, Lalsu, Surya, Mase, Kamala, Nagesh, Rago, Rajesh, Ravi, Sunil, Sarita, Reshma, Raju, Jamuna, Geeta, Hungi, Sanki, Badru, Nilesh, and Sanju in commemoration of their revolutionary memory and ideals. We share the pain, anger, desire for accountability, and dreams of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and the revolutionary, anti-fascist, and anti-imperialist sections of the peoples in India. We believe that the traitors who deserted from the units in the Mad forests, where the 28 were stationed, to save their miserable lives, and put themselves at the service of the fascist regime by showing them the way and the location, will be brought to justice sooner or later, but certainly.
We call on revolutionaries from all parts of the world to organize commemorations and actions for the 28, to protest against the fascist Modi regime, to develop the skills and abilities to protect the revolutionary leadership's legacy, and to form freely organized parties that engage in politics through all means and forms of struggle. We call on groups that are politically and ideologically aligned to fight for unity, and for all communist and revolutionary parties to work towards the establishment of a Revolutionary International, to develop the political struggle, and to exchange solidarity, experiences, knowledge, and opportunities.
Comrade Basavaraju and the 27 revolutionaries are immortal!
The martyrs live on, the HKP (Maoist) fights on!
The only way is revolution, long live socialism!
Long live revolutionary solidarity!
26 May 2025
MLKP Central Committee
