Radical Students Union
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The Radical Students Union (RSU) was a frontal organization of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), a Naxalite group. Founded in 1974, it became defunct after 2005. In 2011 there were indications of plans to revive the organization.
The Radical Students Union (RSU) was formed on 12 October 1974 in Andhra Pradesh. Originally it was part of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist). The first vice-president was C. V. Subbarao, who was arrested a few months after the Emergency began in 1975, and remained in jail until 28 March 1977. At first the organization was brutally suppressed, but after the emergency was lifted in March 1977 it sprang back into life. The second president of the union was Cherukuri Rajkumar, serving until 1984, who went on to become a senior Naxalite commander.Mallojula Koteswara Rao alias Kishenji and Yalavarthi Naveen Babu were leaders of the RSU in Andhra Pradesh and Delhi.
Issues addressed by the RSU included conditions in schools and welfare hostels, school reservations for the disadvantaged groups, opposition to the New Education Policy and "fake encounters". In its early years there was considerable debate in the Andhra Pradesh RSU over whether it should focus only on student issues or should become part of the New Democratic Revolution, helping to create the agrarian revolution. The second option was chosen. The RSU started to decline in Andhra Pradesh in the mid-1990s. The RSU and other Maoist organizations were banned in Andhra Pradesh, but in 2004 the state government lifted the ban to allow for peace talks. While talks were underway the People's War Group (PWG), a splinter group of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist), merged with the Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) to form the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
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