The 9th State Conference of Andhra Pradesh unit of CPIML concluded on 7th December after a two day session on 6th and 7th December 2025 in Kadapa. The Kadapa town was named after Com. Sattar and the hall was named after Com. Seshagiri Rao and the stage was named after Com. PV Ramana Reddy.
The two day conference began with a massive rally in Kadapa town which was led by the Party General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya. PBM and the senior leader Swadesh Bhattacharya, PBM and Incharge of the party affairs in Andhra Pradesh Shankar, the Central Observer to the conference Chandra Mohan, CCM and Incharge of Telangana state party Murthy, Telangana state secretary Rameshraja, the AP State Secretary Bangar Rao and CCM Nagamani and other leaders of state also marched in the rally. Party leaders paid respects to the statue of Dr. BR Ambedkar on the eve of Maha parinirwana Diwas.
Addressing the inaugural session, Comrade Dipankar said, we took anti-feudal struggle as the key link for the party. India is still largely rural, largely agricultural, and it is the assertion of the oppressed rural poor, the landless and marginal farmers, which constitutes the main social base, main arena of emphasis of the communist movement. This is what we did in Bihar and in many other parts including parts of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. Our areas of work are basically the pockets developed through anti-feudal struggle, land struggle. That is the source of the party's main strength. We built an all-India party on the basis of these struggles which works on every front - students, youth, culture, state government employees, railway, organized sector workers, unorganized sector workers, women, tribals, autonomy movements, etc. This combination of theory and practice, local and national, the present and the future is our success story.
"Today, when we talk about fascism we must understand the link. Our anti-feudal struggle has today grown into anti-fascist resistance. Because those feudal forces who had been defeated politically and socially, who had been pushed back, are trying to come back in this new fascist era. When you see the bulldozers at work, the bulldozers are not just some officer or some district administration but the local feudal forces, who want the land, who want to evict the poor, are directing these bulldozers. Basically, those feudal forces who suffered one step back, who faced defeat locally, are trying to make two steps forward, trying to make a come back with the help of the state and the fascist aggression. In order to strengthen such an anti-fascist resistance, we are trying to strengthen our own party, and at the same time, we are also trying to develop various kinds of United Front experiments," Comrade Dipankar noted.
In the concluding statement, he said "I hope that this conference, the ninth conference, will pave the way for a stronger, bigger, a more dynamic, more active CPI(ML) across Andhra Pradesh in every district, and especially retaining all our old bases, expanding the mass base. This is a time for expansion, time for dynamism, greater unity and greater struggle.
The open session following the Rally was addressed by the guests from left parties including Comrade V Srinivasa Rao, the state secretary of CPIM and Comrade G Eswarayya, the state secretary of CPI along with the state committee members of CPIML. Comrade B Bangar Rao presided over while Uday Kiran coordinated the session and Obaiah, the district secretary welcomed the gathering.
Comrade Dipankar delivered the inaugural address of the conference. A book of Vinod Mishra’s selected works in Telugu was released by comrade Dipankar. The publisher Ramanamurthy spoke introducing the publication.
The Delegates session began on 6th afternoon. The conference elected a 9 member presidium comprising comrades Malleswar Rao, D Harinath, Nagamani, Aruna, Ramdev, Bhaskar Rao, Arjun Rao, Venkateswaralu and Chenniah. A 5 member steering committee was also formed. The delegates session began by paying tributes to the departed leaders of state and other leaders who martyred in the past four years. The secretary of the outgoing state committee, Bangar Rao placed the work report with a detailed plan for the future course of action and development of Party in Andhra Pradesh. Com Swadesh Bhattacharya delivered his message of greetings to the conference.
A 39 member state committee was elected and B Bangar Rao was re-elected as the new state secretary. A total of 329 delegates including observers and guests attended the conference. More than 30 percent of delegates were women.
Comrade Swadesh Bhattacharya, the PBM, in his special address of the conference, welcomed the new comrades joining the party. He called upon the entire party to rise up to the occasion and turn the CPIML Liberation as a centre of revolutionary movement in the state. He was hopeful that the party in Andhra could prepare to thwart the designs of fascist forces with the influx of youths and students into the organisation. He appealed to comrades to build a united and strong party with a large mass base in the state.
The party Incharge for the state, comrade Shankar delivered the concluding address. He called upon the party to build waves and waves of struggles of the people, strengthen the party at the grassroots and to organize district level struggles on people’s issues of land, wage, housing, liberation from loans, etc. He also appealed to the newly elected state committee to gear up towards a Chalo Vijayawada rally in the next budget session of the assembly. He called upon delegates to work towards routing out communal forces from the soil of Andhra, unseating the pro-corporate Chandrababu Naidu and TDP from the echelons of power and teaching an appropriate lesson to Pawan Kalyan who preaches Sanatan Dharma against the secular and progressive values and culture of Andhra Pradesh and its people.
