Cycle Yatra for Peace in Central India. Will You Join? 

A rural scene in Chhattsgarh

A  group of organisations based in Chharrisgarh, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, planning a Cycle Yatra in Central India to promote Peace in the trouble-torn areas, is inviting like-minded persons to join the programme.

Here is an appeal issued by the group.

Cycle Yatra for Peace in Central India, Will you join?

More than 12,000 people have died in ongoing violence in Central India in last 20 years. According to Govt figures 2,700 of them were security forces and rest mostly ordinary citizens. And these killings continue everyday...

With a call to stop violence, a Peace process has started. As part of the process more than 150 Adivasis and their friends symbolically walked 196 kms from Gandhi  Ashramam in Chatti village in Andhra Pradesh to Jagdalpur in Bastar, Chhattisgarh, from 2nd October 2018, the start of Gandhi’s 150th birth year celebration. 

Requesting all sides for peace, they also assembled for Bastar Dialogue-1 in Jagdalpur, capital of Bastar at the end of the 12 days Padyatra to discuss also with their supporters on what more needs to be done for a sustainable and just peace...

According to decisions taken in Bastar Dialogue-1 as next step of Peace process a Cycle Yatra for Peace has been planned from 22nd February 2019 from Jagdalpur to Raipur, the capital of Chhattisgarh. 

Cycle Yatra for Peace will reach Raipur on 28th February and on 1st and 2nd March Bastar Dialogue-2 will be organised also to put pressure on new Government to respect the commitments made during release of Sukma Collector Alex Paul Menon in 2012.

According to a deal signed on 30th April a high powered standing committee was supposed to advise Govt on release of Adivasis and non-Adivasis jailed on Naxal charges for a long time. Chief Secretary and Director General of Police were also part of the Nirmala Buch committee. The committee stopped functioning after a few meetings.

Cycle Yatra for peace will also demand immediate rehabilitation of Adivasis who were forced to leave their homes due to violence. It will demand proper implementation of laws like PESA, Fifth schedule and FRA.

    

To help or join please call 8602008333/444                                   

All India Gondwana Gond Mahasabha, Chhattisgarh Sarva Adivasi Samaj, Adivasi Mahasabha, Koya Kutma, Durwa Sama, Bastaria Samaj, Bhatra Samaj, Gondwana Raj Gond Sewa Samiti, Telangana, Jagrut Adivasi Yuva Sangathan, Sabari Gandhi Ashramam, Andhra Pradesh.