Madiga Reservation Porata Samiti

Madiga Reservation Porata Samiti or MRPS is a not-for profit institution standing for human rights and dignity of 300+ million Dalits,Tribals and Physically Handicapped people.

MRPS is currently headed by Manda Krishna Madiga and has been operating from Hyderabad, India since July 7, 1994.

Manda Krishna is a maverick leader from Andhra Pradesh. It is very difficult to define him because he stands for multiple marginalities like dalits, children with heart diseases, physically handicapped, Most backward classes (MBCs) etc. Recently he even announced that he will fight for the rights of the economically backward among the upper castes of Andhra Pradesh.

He is a grassroots fighter and master political strategist and the best thing about him is that he uses these abilities for the fighting for the rights of marginalized groups in the society. He has done fast unto death several times for children with heart diseases, physically handicapped and for classification of Scheduled castes. Of late he is also fighting the mainstream media and the film industry for mis-representing and for making fun of lower castes and physically handicapped persons.

The Struggle

The MRPS has been fighting for the past few years for categorisation of SCs and has intensified its agitation over the past few days, occasionally even resorting to violence. Its leadership had given a call for closing down of all revenue divisional offices and other government offices across the State.

Attacks conducted recently by MRPS

Feb 25, 2009 activists of the Madiga Reservation Porata Samithi (MRPS) set ablaze the office of Mandal Development Officer (MDO) in Krishna district in the wee hours of Thursday, police said. Fen 25,2009 The Madiga Reservation Porata Samithi (MRPS) activists, who have been on a rampage in Nalgonda, East Godavari and some other districts in the last couple of days demanding categorisation of Scheduled Castes (SCs), set afire the tehsildar's office in Vemuru village of Guntur district in the early hours of Tuesday. The activists also set fire to revenue mandal offices in Kankipadu and Ganavaram in Krishna district. The activists tried to disrupt train traffic at Chinna Ravuru station and attacked Penumarru railway station in Guntur district. The activists also staged rail rokos at several places in the district. The MRPS men on Monday torched two buses and destroyed a railway engine in Bhongir mandal in Nalgonda district. The activists are on a warpath, demanding that the Centre immediately table a bill in Parliament for classification of SCs in Andhra Pradesh.

Sources said furniture and records in the revenue offices were destroyed. The activists left a leaflet at the Gannavaram office demanding early action on the SCs classification

Feb 25, 2009 MRPS men attacked Piler railway station. About 50 activists who stormed into the railway station, went on a rampage destroying furniture and windowpanes. When the railway authorities called the police, the MRPS activists fled. Later, the railway staff extinguished the flames.

Madiga Reservation Porata Samithi (MRPS) activists set fire to record room in the Mandal Parishad Development Officer’s (MPDO) office at Kalakada tonight to press their demand for Scheduled Caste (SC) categorisation.Records pertaining to 28 village panchayats were reduced to ashes.

Two more buses of the State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) were set afire in the city a little after midnight on Wednesday by unidentified miscreants, suspected to be activists of Madiga Reservation Porata Samithi (MRPS) activists. The two buses were partially damaged in the incidents that took place at the Rathifile bus stand in Secunderabad and the Khan Lateef Khan building near Lal Bahadur Stadium in Hyderabad.

March 4, 2009 , A Special Police Officer (SPO), who sustained severe burns during Saturday's MRPS attack on APCC headquarters here, succumbed to his injuries today, raising the death toll in the incident to two.

K Subramanya Raju, who was posted at Gandhi Bhavan had sustained severe burns when Madiga Reservation Porata Samiti (MRPS) activists made an abortive bid to set fire to the building on Saturday, protesting the alleged delay in SC categorisation.

Four MRPS activists, the Special Police Officer and one Gandhi Bhavan staffer had suffered burns and were admitted to different hospitals in the city.

Raju, who sustained over 90 per cent burns, breathed his last at a private hospital here this evening.

Earlier, one of the MRPS activists Surendar who had also sustained 90 per cent burns, had succumbed on Sunday.

Another activist Damodar, who also sustained serious burns along with two others, died.

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• http://www.samaylive.com/news/mrps-attack-spo-succumbs-to-burns-toll-mounts-to-2/612249.html
• http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=SPO+Raju+succumbs+to+burns&artid=XEunlYR2DKI=&SectionID=xAV59odivTs=&MainSectionID=xAV59odivTs=&SEO=Gandhi+Bhavan,++MRPS,+Surendra+Madiga&SectionName=BUzPVSKuYv7MFxnS0yZ7ng==
• http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/politics/protester-injured-in-attack-on-congress-office-dies_100163601.html