Warangal
Being a fountain of different thoughts and thoughts is not unusual for any academic institution. For many, however, it is surprising that the Engineering College, established with the specific purpose of the production of technical power and academic leaders, has become an epicenter of the Maoist movement that shook the nation. This institution is a regional engineering university, Warangal – the first such university founded in the country in 1959.
Subsequently, the College upgraded and renamed the National Technology Institute (NIT), continued to produce many luminaires in different fields, while producing at least half a dozen of the best Naxalite leaders.
Among the most important of them was Zambal Keshava Rao aka Basavaraju (70), Secretary General and Chief of the Maoist Party Military Commission, who was killed at a meeting with security forces on Wednesday 21st May in Chhattisgarh. Another important graduate, Cherkuri Rajkumar aka Azad, a spokesman for the Central Committee of the same party, was killed at an alleged meeting in the district of Adilabad in 2010.
Other best leaders include Queens Janardhan, a founding member of the radical student unions (RSU), Nagabeli Ravinder, member of the State Committee, Gajala RAM, Shyam, Visheshvar Rao and Mukku Subba Reddy, one founding members of the People’s War. All these young people were greatly influenced by Naxalbari and other communist movements in the country and Oldhere.
“At a time when Rajkumar entered Rec in 1972, the College became the focus of revolutionary student movements inspired by a peasant uprising in Telangana,” says senior journalist N. Venugopal. Janardhan was killed together with several other student leaders at an alleged meeting in Giraipalli near Siddipet in July 1975. Shyam was reportedly killed by the police in Hanamkon, while Gajala Ram reportedly lost his life when he exploded his hand in 1981.
The score of students from Rec actively joined the “GO in the villages”, which in May 1978 helped create a radical youth league and in 1980 Ryth-Coolie Sangham.
At the same time, the Wrarangal Kondapalli Seetharamahaiha (KS), along with another KG teacher Satyamurtha (Sivasagar), created a war group of people (PW or PWG) from the CPI (ML) Splinter (ML) in 1980.
“While the involvement of Rec Graduates in the Maoist movement is an important aspect of the history of the institution, it is important to realize that all graduates were not involved in the movement. The influence of the university movement was a complex phenomenon and many graduates chose different ways,” said a former member of the faculty.
“During my time as a student at Rec, I was part of ABVP/RSS. The institution was a focus of extremist activities with a significant presence of naxality sympathizers among students, workers and even some faculty members,” recalled the former director. GRC Reddy. One student, Vinod Kumar Jha, who is associated with ABVP, was reportedly murdered in mess.
“Although I strongly disagreed with their ideology and methods, I can acknowledge that their movement was dealing with some of the urgent agrarian and social issues of that time,” Mr. Reddy planted.
Activist of Rights and Founder of Human Rights forum (HRF) K. Balagopal also made his Ph.D. In mathematics from college, during that stormy period.
Published – May 22, 2025 20:06
