Lal Salam (Red Salute) Comrade Basavraj

Written by: ICSPWI on 26 May 2025

The CPA (M-L) notes with great sadness the killing by the Modi Government of Communist Party of India (Maoist) leader Basavraj on May 21. This is Modi’s reply to the ceasefire and peace talks proposed by the CPI (M) earlier this year. Although the CPI (M) is suffering great losses through Modi’s Operation Kagaar, its cause is just and will eventually succeed – Eds.

The International Committee to Support the People's War in India (ICSPWI) salute Comrade Keshava Rao, Basavraj, General Secretary of the CPI (Maoist), murdered by the repressive forces of the fascist Modi’s regime, lackey to imperialism, along with 26 other Maoist cadres in the Abuijhmad forest, Narayanpur district, Chhattisgarh on May 21.

This is a huge loss for the Party, the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army, the proletariat and masses of India engaged in the people's war, for the International Communist Movement, for the proletarians, the exploited and the oppressed peoples in the world.

Comrade Basavraj was the founder of the People's Guerrilla Army in 2000 and has led as Commander the most important actions of the people's war in recent years, dealing bold blows to the reactionary Indian regime and imperialism. His role in the formation of the Guerrilla Bases and the birth of the People's Power Organizations was crucial.

Basavraj became the Party's general secretary in 2018. He was trained by the Party and the masses, always giving an extraordinary example of bravery, wisdom and determination. He was a master of the people's war and has given his life for the revolution.
He will never be forgotten!

The Indian Modi’s regime has murdered the comrades as part of the 'Operation Kagaar', a genocidal campaign of repression, massacres, arrests, bombings and devastation on the people, particularly 
the most oppressed and exploited masses, the Adivasis, etc., within a plan that aims to wipe out the people's war and the Party leading that by March 2026.

Now they cry victory, but the Indian masses and the Party know how to respond to this attack with adequate strategy and tactics, strengthening and extending the resistance and mobilization of the masses.

The Committee had already launched a one-year-long campaign of internationalist solidarity and support, holding a first successful week of action on April 7-12.

The death of comrade Basavraj calls us, also in his honor and name, to multiply our efforts so that this campaign is even stronger and wider and contributes to deal hard blows on the Indian regime and imperialism; all the more so because it is inextricably linked to international solidarity with the Palestinian people, who heroically face the genocidal plan of Israel and imperialism -Netanyahu is supported in all forms by the reactionary Modi’s regime- and is part of the struggle of the proletariat and peoples against the imperialist war.

Honour in all forms comrade Basavraj!
Intensify mobilization and actions against the Operation Kagaar, for the release of political prisoners in India
Extend the support to the People's War in India and to the Communist Party of India (Maoist), as important international reference point for the liberation struggle of the people oppressed by imperialism, for the world proletarian revolution, socialism and communism

ICSPWI
25 May 2025

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