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Published on: 4/23/2002
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The movement collapsed completely in 1971, and Mazumdar's plans for Andhra were to be fulfilled only when Kondapalli Seetharamiah, a teacher in a Railway School in Warangal, founded the CPI (M-L) "People's War Group" (PWG).
Mr Seetharamiah, known as 'KS', remained Secretary of Central Organising Committee (COC) of the PWG until he was expelled by the Party in 1992.In his mid-70s today, he leads a retired life but does not hesitate to castigate his successors in the PWG for their failure to understand Mao Tse Tung Thought.
Dalam Revolution
The PWG's goals are to motivate the people to wage war and capture political power through armed insurrection.It rejects the politics of parliamentary democracy on the ground the oppressed masses have no chance to win an election without money and muscle power, available in plenty with the exploitative classes.The PWG traces its ideology to Mao's dictum that "power flows through the barrel of a gun" and adopts tactics of guerilla warfare with an armed cadre divided into dalams (squad) which maintain a string of hideouts.The PWG is said to have obtained arms from insurgents in Indian Northeast as well as from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam in Sri Lanka.