AISA and RYA protest against Operation Green Hunt in Kolkata

Activists of the All India Students’ Association (AISA) and Revolutionary Youth Association (RYA) organized a protest in Kolkata on Friday, 23rd April against Operation Green Hunt. More than five hundred students and youth attended the rally which was led and addressed by comrades Malay Tewari and Jul Mukherjee, State Secretary and Joint Secretary of AISA and Souvik Ghoshal and Apurba Ghosh, State President and Secretary of RYA.
Operation Green Hunt is underway today in the forested regions of Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh, which are home to many tribal communities. It represents an all-out war on democracy and all-out land grab for corporate interests.
At the same time, the anarcho-militaristic trend represented by the Maoists recognizes only military action as class struggle. They neglect the painstaking tasks of popular struggles, of mass resistance and political awakening of the rural poor.
Today, reports of indiscriminate detention, custodial torture and harassment, cold-blooded ‘encounters’, and attacks on freedom of expression are coming in from every corner of the country. The meeting expressed its all-out condemnation of the assaults on democracy.