ADGP, UP, Sri Brijlal's declaration of double storeying and fortifying trans Yamuna and Kaushambi thanas with watch towers, enabling police to fire at a distance, establishment of helipads in Lalapur and Sarai Akil, construction of tunnels, appointment of 203 Special Police Officers - "secret agents with secret identification numbers" like Hitler's SS (Schutz Staffel) reads like a war roll call by the Mayawati govt against the poor people of the two districts. Earlier the people feared entering the thanas to make complaints, now they will fear coming near them also.

Though the ADGP has taken notice of the problems being raised by the poor and downtrodden and has asked for them to be solved, his declaration of taking action against leaders of 'lal salaam' for 'inciting people' to take "arms" exposes the real intentions of politically targeting the peoples' organizations rather than discussing the problems at the political level and solving them. To defend themselves workers have to move with lathis which are being illegally labelled by the ADGP as weapons. They carry no arms & there has not been a single incident of violence by the workers. But like the "Khakhi" officials propped up and nurtured by the British he has treated problems of peoples' livelihood and feudal goonda torture as problems of 'law and order' being created by the people.

AIKMS leaders have made repeated representations to the IG Range, Commisioner Allahabad and other officials regarding use of illegal fire arms by goondas, illegal sand mining machines, illegal sale of ravannas in sand and gravel mining, land and mine grabbing, goonda tax by the powerful mafia and govt's failure to distribute Ganga and Jamuna Kachar land. The workers leaders have raised only constitutional demands and in an absolutely constitutional manner while BSP govt. is blatantly violating the law to repress the workers and help the mafia.

Though the Mayawati govt. talks of solving problems through mainstream participation, she has further reduced the mainstream into an anti people police exercise where people are targets of police torture and firing. This is part and parcel of the colonial mindset of Indian rulers for whom MNCs are "patriotic" and Indian people are "criminals".

AIKMS has severely condemned the BSP govt.'s repeated attempts to prevent workers and poor farmers from holding peaceful public meetings, to instigate violence through goonda type police attacks, to lodge false cases against thousands of workers and label them as a 'gang'. BSP is the harbourer of the most crude & anti people exploiter gangs in Kaushambi. MP Kapilmuni Karwaria, Girish Pasi, Balam and Pinto are embroiled in snatching poor peoples' livelihood and harassing them and Kaushambi administration is supporting their illegal and unconstitutional activities.

AIKMS submits that if the govt. does not address complaints within the framework of the constitution, laws of the land and High Court orders, workers will be forced to stop the machines themselves and do farming on the Kachar lands.

(Suresh Chandra)