PWG claims responsibility for landmine blast

By Our Staff Reporter

GUNTUR, AUG. 23. The People's War Group (PWG) has claimed responsibility for the landmine blast at Remidicherla in Guntur district in which eight policemen personnel and one private jeep driver were killed.

In a statement released to the press on Wednesday, the district secretary of the PWG, Mr. P. Mohan, said that the killing of the policemen in the landmine blast at Remidicherla by the People's Guerilla Army (PGA) was a retaliation to the increasing oppression against the people by the Government in the forms of arrests, combing, police raids on villages and fake encounters. He expressed his grief over the death of a private jeep driver in the incident. He appealed to the people not to give any vehicles to the police department, which was continuously attacking the people, and also not to travel in police vehicles and buses in which policemen travelled.

The Government specially brought in Mr. J. Purnachandra Rao as the Superintendent of Police to Guntur district from Srikakulam only to weaken the agitations being organised by the PWG. Ever since he took over as the SP in Guntur, police raids in the villages of the Palnadu area had been on the rise. He charged the police with killing at least four naxalites, who were unarmed, by subjecting them to torture and slashing them into pieces at Perikapadu thanda in Guntur district.

Criticising the Chief Minister, Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu, the PWG's district secretary said that Mr. Naidu was dancing to the tunes of the World Bank and was resorting to gimmickry by organising programmes like Janmabhoomi and Shramdan. Mr. Naidu pushed the State into a debt trap and remained a mute spectator to the suicides of farmers, growing unemployment and engineered fake encounters in the last six years. His claim that he was striving for development and poverty-alleviation was like "water in a mirage".

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