The Red Menace

Pranav · Post by **Pranav** » 17 Apr 2010 07:40

Philip wrote: If development has to take place in such sensitive zones,they must be done very sensitively,without detriment to the natural resources which are the heritage of the entire country.It is a sad commentary that the undrepriviliged tribals have been neglected for decades after independence ...

That much one can agree with, but I also question the motives of the western establishment in making a big controversy about Vedanta, given their past record on other issues.

Pranav · Post by **Pranav** » 17 Apr 2010 08:11

India’s leaders to blame for Maoist crisis

By John Elliott

Published: April 16 2010 14:03 | Last updated: April 16 2010 14:03

From Riding the Elephant blog

A controversy currently raging in India over whether the growing problem of Naxalite (Maoist) rebels should be tackled with force or through development of the tribal areas involved is unnecessary. The answer is clearly both – at the same time, and with equal energy and commitment, by both state governments which have constitutional responsibility for security and by the central government.

The fact that this dual approach is not happening, and that there are splits within the governing Congress Party, is an indictment of the government’s weak leadership, notably by Manmohan Singh, the prime minister, and Sonia Gandhi, the leader of the ruling coalition, plus at a different level her son and heir Rahul Gandhi.

The situation is now dire. The Naxalites recently killed 76 paramilitary troops in an ambush, and their activities now cover over a third of India’s administrative districts. They control large swathes of remote and often densely forested areas – especially where tribal people risk losing land to development projects – that stretch from the Nepal border down through West Bengal, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, Orissa and Andhra Pradesh. They are also now moving into urban areas of some states, notably West Bengal and their aim eventually is to encircle strategic districts and urban centres.

Because of the lack of government leadership, Palaniappan Chidambaram, the home minister who has brought focus and order to the ministry since he took over at the end of 2008, has been publicly attacked from many quarters. The most recent – and serious – attack came two days ago in a newspaper article written by Digvijay Singh, a senior politician and a general secretary of the Congress Party who is close to the Gandhis and has a political base in Chattisgarh, one of the Naxalite-ridden states.

Digvijay Singh wrote in the Economic Times that “we should be paying more attention to their (tribal peoples’) livelihood and governance rather than converting the serene and calm environment of Bastar (one of the Naxalite areas) into a battleground”. He criticised Chidambaram for his “intellectual arrogance” and for being “extremely rigid” though admitting he is also an “extremely intelligent, articulate, committed and sincere politician”.

The key words in the quote above are “more attention” because they amount to a criticism of Chidambaram’s security-oriented paramilitary approach. They are especially significant because Digvijay Singh works closely with the Gandhi’s. An article about him in the India Today weekly news magazine recently said that he is “sharp enough to gauge the mood of the leadership and he would never speak without first clearing his lines with the famed high command” – which means the Gandhi’s.

He is therefore presumably reflecting Sonia and Rahul Gandhi’s unease about Chidambaram’s hard line. I heard on Thursday they were anxious to stop the article triggering a pubic row, but Rahul did make similar remarks about the need for development some weeks ago.

They and Digvijay Singh are of course right because Chidambaram is being unbendingly single minded in his approach – and his arrogance is widely recognised and tolerated.

But, as home minister, he is only doing his job to try to mobilise the states’ security operations and support them with the central paramilitary, while trying to turn the ramshackle ill-trained, ill-equipped and often undisciplined troops into fighting forces.

He is criticised by Singh and others for not - at the same time - focussing on development and, as a result, alienating tribals and others who get caught up and killed in the fighting. He says that development is the job of the states, not his.

Up to a point he is right. But it is the job of the government as a whole to mobilise development through various ministries such as human development (education, rural development, environment and others).

That this is not happening is the responsibility of Singh as prime minister and Sonia as party leader. Months ago they should have set up a group of ministers, led by the home ministry, to galvanise the central government, and the states into parallel security and developmental operations.

That has not been done, so it is grossly unfair to blame Chidambaram for the current security focus and to allowing him to become the scapegoat for attacks by soft liberals such as Arundhati Roy, the novelist and campaigner who has ludicrously accused the government of fighting the Naxalites in order to protect mining companies’ leases.

India’s tribals, who are largely the innocent victims in the middle of this verbal and military war, have of course been abominably treated – or ignored – for decades by central and state governments that have done virtually nothing to protect their remote habitats and encourage sympathetic economic and social development.

This has opened the way for the Maoist-inspired Naxalites to move in as the tribals’ saviours. However, the Naxalites are not primarily interested in helping the tribals: their primary aim is to overthrow India’s established parliamentary democracy.

Chidambaram has unrealistically said that security operations can clear out Naxalites within two or three years, with development taking place one they are defeated. As has been seen in places as far afield as Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, defeated rebels and terrorists re-occupy areas once troops move on, thus preventing follow-on development.

Indeed, it looks more like a battle that will last decades rather than two or three years, and the only way to tackle that it surely for the government to adopt a three-pronged approach – tough security operations, widespread developmental work, and continual attempts to open behind-the-scenes talks with Naxalite leaders at all levels.

That is the job of the government as a whole, led by Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi, working with Chidambaram instead of letting their colleagues snipe at him from the columns of a daily newspaper.

The writer is a former FT south Asia Correspondent (1983-88) and now writes from New Delhi.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e1fcd6b6-4950 ... ab49a.html

Agree with this except the last 3 paras.

If the "high command" had any will to defeat the Maoists, the way to go would be to eliminate the top leadership with intelligence-led operations. That would create space for development efforts.

Avinash R · Post by **Avinash R** » 17 Apr 2010 09:38

Singha wrote:zeenews:
Chattisgarh exploring legal options to book Arundhati Roy
Updated on Friday, April 16, 2010, 20:28 IST Tags:Arundhati Roy, Maoist, Naxal

Raipur: Chattisgarh Police is exploring legal options to book Arundhati Roy for a recent article in which she sympathises with Left Wing extremists.

"I have asked the legal experts to give their opinion and come up with a decision..," Director General of Police Vishwa Ranjan told PTI when asked about a complaint by Biswajit Mitra, a former BSP leader, who accused her of supporting naxals and demanded action against her.

Good work by CT police, also time they looked into cases of her grabbing tribal lands.

Everytime she shouts for maoist criminals on TV the anchors should question her about her criminal involvement in such shady deals.

Arundhati Roy, Vikram Seth in encroachment case
Jun 26, 2006

BHOPAL: The families of two of India's best known authors, Arundhati Roy and Vikram Seth, have been issued notices by a local Madhya Pradesh court for allegedly encroaching on a tribal's land.

Forest officials Nishikant Jadhav and JC Sharma are the other two parties in the case who have allegedly built cottages on land belonging to Vijay Singh Desh in Hoshangabad's Pipariya district, 200 km from Bhopal.

Acting on a complaint, the local tehsildar court in Pipariya on Friday issued notices to all four occupants and asked them to remove the encroachments by July 7.

According to the complaint, all four are said to have built their cottages on Desh's land despite his objection.

Later, they also got a road constructed on another portion of the land with the result that the tribal was left with only that bit on which his house was standing.

"First, they constructed their houses on my land and then the road. When we pointed out that the place they were using for constructing their house and road was ours, they didn't pay any attention because we are poor people," said Vijay Singh's wife Sukhdevi.

Having unsuccessfully pleaded to all four several times to vacate his land, Vijay Singh finally complained to Sub Divisional Magistrate Niaz Ahmad Khan in May this year.

On investigating the matter, Niaz Ahmad found the complaint to be correct and forwarded the case to the court of Tehsildar ML Solanki.

Solanki said: "Action will be taken against all the four if they fail to comply with the court orders... The cottages were constructed despite objections by the up naib tehsildar (local official)."

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/arti ... 681245.cms

Philip · Post by **Philip** » 17 Apr 2010 11:46

Great expose! "Land grabber" A.Roy exposed as a selfish hypocrite.WE need to expose and sift the genuine from the poseurs in the pro-tribal entourage.

Thye statement from AKA that the war will be pursued (planned one presumes) by the services is very welcome.The paramilitary forces are wanting both in strategy and tactics to deal with the Reds.The GOI must also do its share of dev. work with states in an open and transparent manner to cut the ground from under the Reds feet.It is not going to happen overnight but the first steps should be taken and announced,the best would be setting up a dev. agency for all forest/restricted land where tribals may be living monitored both by the environmental ministry and any ministry/agency specially set up for the tribals.Any mineral wealth in such zones should be the property of the state,sensitively developed by state PSUs and not handed over to greedy MNCs.The state PSUs can offer part shares to Indian investors as some uutility opertors are doing ,so that no malignant foreign influence in these sensitive areas of the country are allowed.

Nihat · Post by **Nihat** » 18 Apr 2010 11:30

Census to skip Naxal-ruled villages

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 19 Apr 2010 00:01

Naxals support Govt-run PDS scheme

RamaY · Post by **RamaY** » 19 Apr 2010 01:57

How can GOI do Naxals support Govt-run PDS scheme without Census to skip Naxal-ruled villages

Pranav · Post by **Pranav** » 19 Apr 2010 06:56

Pranav wrote: That much one can agree with, but I also question the motives of the western establishment in making a big controversy about Vedanta, given their past record on other issues.

Could this be one reason, amongst others, for the Takleef with Vedanta?

The largest worry for China, however, remains the threat of an economic collapse — which some economists are already predicting. In an article, China's Red Flags, journalist Edward Chancellor warns that China's status as the world's largest exporter also makes it extremely vulnerable to any slowdown in demand, given that the exports consist largely of semi-processed goods from the Far-East finished in China. In December 2009, China posted a 2.8 per cent decline in exports and a whopping 21 per cent decline in imports. Despite its massive $39-billion trade surplus, Mr. Chancellor likens the economy to the bomb-laden bus in the Hollywood thriller Speed that will explode if it goes below 50 miles an hour — “Were China's economy to slow below Beijing's 8 per cent growth target, bad things are liable to happen,” he concludes, adding all the new infrastructure and excess capacity would be rendered worthless. Of course, doomsayers were wrong earlier but with money supply rising at a dangerous 26 per cent annual rate, the inflation and real estate boom combination does worry Chinese leaders as the recent National People's Congress proceedings reveal.

As a result, India looks a more attractive market for sales and investment for China — deals for infrastructure in particular, like the $1.5-billion bid the Chinese State grid corp. has just won from Vedanta Resources in Orissa.

http://www.hindu.com/2010/04/19/stories ... 890800.htm

Prem Kumar · Post by **Prem Kumar** » 20 Apr 2010 02:02

PC's reply in Rajya Sabha. Worth reading in full.

Living In A Fool's Paradise

Also has a reference to the unedited written interview of Azad with The Hindu:

http://beta.thehindu.com/multimedia/arc ... 03996a.pdf

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 20 Apr 2010 02:43

Seems like Kishen the rat's brother Venugopal has taken over the Lalgarh horde. So that confirms that Kishen did get injured in the encounter and is debilitated now.

Elsewhere, one doc in Durgapur with compassion that beats even the saint and mahatma Binayak Sen has been zeroed in as the one who has been providing medical facilities to maoists. As usual, the doc absconded before the police could get there.

Read at http://news.rediff.com/report/2010/apr/ ... naxals.htm
that retired naxalist (!) Devender has been arrested as supplying arms to CPI-ML (Prajapratighana) group. The newsitem had this vague remark

Interestingly, in another related development on Monday, a squad member of Prajapratighatna opened fire at Mohan Anna, who is the state secretary of the organisation. Police sources said that while Mohan survived the attack, the Naxalite who had opened fire at him managed to flee from the forest.

Pranav · Post by **Pranav** » 20 Apr 2010 16:28

Nitish's development efforts are marginalizing Maoists in Bihar's Jehanabad district. But still:

Still, despite the positive trends, things are far from picture perfect. It’s said that the Maoists are merely “inactive” for the moment. In Imamganj in Arwal district, a local businessman speaks in hushed whispers about them waiting in the aisles, hoping Nitish will lose the next polls. A “retired” Maoist area commander who came out of jail a year ago confirms that his comrades are just biding their time. How is it, we ask, that the Maoists are not blocking the development? “Of course, they are,” he says, “they are charging huge levies from contractors engaged in public works.” DGP Neelmani admits it’s extremely difficult to cut off the money supply to the Maoists. And it cuts both ways. “If we can’t give protection to those from whom they are extorting money, we can’t punish them also. We can’t protect every businessman.”

http://outlookindia.com/article.aspx?265091

One cannot understand why the Maoists who extort cannot be captured ... just set up a trap. The foot-soldiers will lead the police to higher ranking Maoists.

ASPuar · Post by **ASPuar** » 21 Apr 2010 00:16

I had mentioned earlier how civil servants high handedness in the districts is often at the bottom of the discontentment of the people, and the root of the failure of true democracy to take over, and opportunistic infections like this Naxal menace to take root. This case occurred this past sunday, in Bihar:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city ... 835346.cms

Bihar cops beat NRI, dad for overtaking IPS officer's car

IANS, Apr 20, 2010, 01.26pm IST

PATNA: An NRI businessman from Russia and his elderly father were allegedly beaten by policemen in Bihar's Patna district for overtaking the vehicle of a probationer Indian Police Service (IPS) officer. A probe has been ordered, authorities said Tuesday.

Shajendra Bihari Singh, in his early 40s, was beaten Sunday after he overtook the car of IPS officer Vivek Kumar when he was on his way from Jehanabad to native Dharhara village in Punpun near Patna.

In the event that the complainant was driving rashly, a challan could have been issued, and he could have been fined. Nowhere in the IPC or Motor Vehicles Act is the penalty for rash driving specified to be a 'thrashing'.

A democracy is not an appropriate place for such power drunk behaviour.
"I was beaten like a criminal by policemen. I was innocent and I did not violate law of the land, but police treated me like a criminal and beat me with bamboo sticks and hands," Shajendra Singh, who owns a restaurant business in Russia, told IANS.

"My only crime was that I overtook the vehicle of a police officer of Jehanabad. He was angered and stopped my vehicle few minutes later. He started abusing and beating me."

He said the policemen thrashed his father Brijbihari Singh, who was with him. "Also, we were taken to Parsa Bazar police station and beaten again there," he added.

The NRI, who displayed marks of injuries on his body, lodged a complaint but police refused to register a case.

"Local police officers and Bihar's top police officers whom I contacted for justice downplayed the incident. They discouraged me to raise voice against the injustice," he said.

The Russia-based restaurateur then lodged a complaint at the chief judicial magistrate in Patna civil court Monday and petitioned the State Human Rights Commission for justice.

Additional Director General (police headquarters) P.K. Thakur said: "A probe has been ordered into the case. We have asked the DIG (deputy inspector general) to investigate into the case and submit a report within a week."

Just the sort of thing that trips up a nation on the march.
Rule 11(3) of the IPS Probation Rules allow for the dismissal of a probationer for misconduct. Perhaps government, in its wisdom, should make use of this rule, to teach the fraternity of Police officers, that they are public servants, and not public masters.

If the man was driving badly, a challan would have been the correct thing to issue. Nowhere in the Motor Vehicles Act is "a thrashing" prescribed as an appropriate punishment. Indeed, the intended job of law enforcement was never to punish per se. It was to bring to enforce law, bring suspects to justice, and justice to be meted out by the courts.

Avinash R · Post by **Avinash R** » 21 Apr 2010 09:18

And people wonder why police think its better to "encounter" such traitors rather than present them before courts.

some sections of the judiciary are soft on terrorists and allows them to walk free even after they are caught with explosives and some politicians to further their petty interests "free" terrorists from police custody.

Next time any politicians wants to "free" terrorists the police should open fire and "free" such criminal politicians.

Biggest Maoist kingpin in Guj, Maha walks free

In shocking news coming in from Silvassa in Daman, a senior maoist Kingpin was freed from police custody by a violent mob led by a former congress MP in Silvassa, Daman.

The incident is reported to have occured on April 18. This happened even as police officials from Jharkhand waited inside the police station to take him to Jharkhand.

Apparently the Maoist leader Sachidanand Jha alias had fled from Jharkhand and was working at a thermal plant in Silvassa, near Mumbai.

Police claim that Jha was close confidante of Maoist leader Mithilesh Mahato arrested earlier.

Jha was reportedly on a recruitment drive in Silvasaa and was working on building a red corridor from Gujarat to Maharashra.

Sachin · Post by **Sachin** » 21 Apr 2010 10:19

Avinash R wrote:Jha was reportedly on a recruitment drive in Silvasaa and was working on building a red corridor from Gujarat to Maharashra.

I hope the cops have not last heart and still have their eyes set firmly on this Mao-pest. Considering the help he received from the traitor Congress MP, he might start his tricks with all earnest again. And that would make tracking this person easy. Jharkhand cops who now have learnt a lesson can now plan better to pick this fellow up and whisk him away at the right oppurtunity.

Aside: It is a kind of folk-lore in our younger days when a young SI used to pick up criminals, fully expecting politicians to barge in and demand his release. He used this to assess the criminal and his political pals. And within a week, our SI would have come up with more charges and would have picked the criminal once again (this time housed in a lockup some where far away)

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Pranav · Post by **Pranav** » 21 Apr 2010 10:34

^^^ The former Congress MP involved seems to be Mohan Delkar (news-reader seems to have mis-pronounced it as Mohan Belkar).

The video also mentioned the husband of a sitting TDP MLA involved in transporting arms for the Maoists, and also that the Maoist king-pin was a high official in Ram Vilas Paswan's party.

The enemy is not in the jungles - they are inside our leadership.

Silvassa MP Mohan Delkar joins Cong

Kamaal Saiyed Thursday , Feb 05, 2009 at 0227 hrs Silvassa:

Mohan Delkar, the six-time Member of Parliament from Dadra and Nagar Haveli, joined the Congress at a public rally addressed by the party president Sonia Gandhi at Silvassa on Wednesday.

Addressing the rally, Delkar said: “It is our (Congress) weakness due to which the people of Gujarat have elected Narendra Modi as chief minister.

He cannot stand before such a strong and effective leader like Sonia Gandhi. We should feel proud of having such leaders in the Congress.”

Delkar, who personally supervised the arrangements to welcome Sonia, said, “For the last five years, I have been in touch with Sonia Gandhi.”

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/silva ... ng/419500/

Viv S · Post by **Viv S** » 22 Apr 2010 05:25

PM talks tough: No quarter for Naxals

At a time when some Congress leaders are questioning concerted police action against Naxals, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sent out a strong message against left-wing extremism on Wednesday, calling for action to root out the problem.

“No quarter can be given to those who have taken upon themselves to challenge the authority of the Indian state and fabric of our democratic polity,” the prime minister said in one of his strongest message targeting the Maoists so far.

Pranav · Post by **Pranav** » 22 Apr 2010 07:46

Digvijay to meet Sonia to explain remarks on PC : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 841391.cms

Could be for show. Doubt the fellow Digvijay would have spoken without pre-authorization.

BTW, the release of the Maoist king-pin by a mob of Congressmen does not seem to have been covered in any major newspaper.

Presumably the police in Silvassa are under the control of the Central govt, Silvassa being in a union territory.

Pranav · Post by **Pranav** » 22 Apr 2010 08:19

This is old news, but well worth reminding ourselves of:

Cops surround Naxal leaders, told to return

EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE Posted: Feb 05, 2005 at 0219 hrs IST

HYDERABAD, NEW DELHI, FEB 4 A commando operation by the Andhra Pradesh police, which had the top Naxalite leadership from across the country at its mercy for several hours yesterday, deepened the distrust between the state government and the Naxalites as they try to talk again.

The special anti-Naxalite Grey Hound commandos were called back from Nallamala forest in Prakasam after frantic telephone calls by the intermediaries to senior ministers in Hyderabad and New Delhi.

The episode has left both the Naxalites and the security forces seething and it could further harm the already floundering peace talks. The Naxalites are alleging that the sole purpose behind the Grey Hound ambush was to liquidate their entire leadership. Ramakrishna, for example, had emerged from the forests for the first time in three decades last year to take part in the now-rocky peace talks.

Senior Home Ministry officials in New Delhi confirmed that the Naxal leadership had been allowed go. Senior Home Ministry officials said: ‘‘Even though talks have been interrupted, back channels of communication are still open. Under such circumstances, apprehending the Naxal leaders might not have sent the right signals.’’

Officials also said that state has been asked to continue engaging the Naxals. ‘‘We hope that this gesture will help the Naxals back to the table,’’ they said.

Some 30 top leaders, including Andhra’s CPI (Maoist) state secretary Ramakrishna and representatives from Bihar and Chhattisgarh were meeting secretly, deep inside the Nallamala jungles, when they were encircled by Grey Hound commandos.

Ramakrishna managed to get in touch with Varavara Rao, poet, the Maoist spokesman and their emissary in the peace talks, on his mobile phone.

Rao told The Indian Express that Ramakrishna called him around 1 pm on Thursday to say they were completely surrounded. He said he had to seek the intervention of Union ministers from Andhra Pradesh—Dasari Narayana Rao, S Jaipal Reddy and K Chandrasekhar Rao—and State PCC chief Keshav Rao and state Home Minister K Jana Reddy.

While top politicians are now denying their role in the affair, the fact remains that the Grey Hounds aborted their operation later in the day with the Naxalites within their sights.

On January 16, the talks had collapsed as Naxalites alleged that the security forces continued to kill their men in fake encounters. The sight of the Grey Hounds led them to believe that they were about to face another such encounter.

Rao said that he and the Naxalite balladeer Gadar had an emergency meeting with Home Minister K Jana Reddy at 4 pm on Thursday and around 7 pm word got back that the Naxalites had been spared.

Said Rao: ‘‘The Home Minister and the DGP tried to explain it away saying that the Grey Hounds were on a routine mission. But we know how close they came to killing our leaders.’’ Home Minister Reddy himself would only remark: ‘‘Police officers have been told to exercise restraint.’’

The Grey Hounds, Rao said, are still in the area, though the DGP has asked the SP of Prakasam district to rein them back.

Over the past month 23 Maoists have been killed in 10 encounters, said Rao. ‘‘They call them encounters, but not a single cop was hurt in any of these,’’ he claimed.

Added K G Kannabiran, a member of the Committee for Concerned Citizens: ‘‘On the one hand they are inviting the Naxals to the negotiating table on the other hand the police action continues.’’

One security official said, however, that the police may never get another opportunity like this. ‘‘What if the talks fail? We may not be able to nab them again,’’ he said.

http://www.indianexpress.com/storyOld.php?storyId=64096

The blood of many innocent people is on the hands of these politicians. The most interesting aspect of the whole situation is the refusal of the BJP to take such issues up in any meaningful way.

skaranam · Post by **skaranam** » 22 Apr 2010 09:11

ASPuar wrote:I had mentioned earlier how civil servants high handedness in the districts is often at the bottom of the discontentment of the people, and the root of the failure of true democracy to take over, and opportunistic infections like this Naxal menace to take root. This case occurred this past sunday, in Bihar:

As with civil servants, even some NRIs show a high degree of high handedness. I am not sure if the case is as such here...but never the less cannot be ruled out.

milindc · Post by **milindc** » 22 Apr 2010 09:21

skaranam wrote:
ASPuar wrote:I had mentioned earlier how civil servants high handedness in the districts is often at the bottom of the discontentment of the people, and the root of the failure of true democracy to take over, and opportunistic infections like this Naxal menace to take root. This case occurred this past sunday, in Bihar:
As with civil servants, even some NRIs show a high degree of high handedness. I am not sure if the case is as such here...but never the less cannot be ruled out.

Whatever the case, there can't be thrashing by police ......

skaranam · Post by **skaranam** » 22 Apr 2010 11:24

Hyderabad riots fuelled by realtors: Fact-finding team

What started off as a tiff between the two communities over celebration of festivals was turned into a full-scale riot by real estate mafia. For the first time in the history of Hyderabad a number of religious places have been attacked and demolished and the real estate mafia is behind this. There is evidence that the mobs who carried out these attacks did not belong to Hyderabad, their language and appearance was also different. Even the stones that were used to pelt at religious places and houses were brought from outside,” Lateef Mohammed Khan, Secretary of Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee (CLMC), says.

Besides CLMC, members of Kula Nirmoolana Porata Samiti, Patriotic Democratic Movement, Chaitanya Samaikhya and Viplava Rachayitula Sangam were part of the fact-finding team which visited all the affected areas.

Now the Fact Finding team are all members of Maoist Front Organizations. They frequently issue joint statements and come together at various functions.

Do you guys think we need a thread where we can track/list/collate information on all Maoist front organizations?

Nihat · Post by **Nihat** » 24 Apr 2010 11:14

Suspected Naxalite held in Govindpuri

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: An alleged Naxalite, wanted for several offences including an attack on police in March in Bihar, has been arrested by the south district police. Sources said the accused, Ajay Kumar Singh (32), was apprehended from Govindpuri on Wednesday. He would be taken on remand by Bihar Police for his involvement in Naxalism.

Singh was allegedly involved in Naxalism in Taryani area. He reportedly torched a police jeep on March 23 when Maoists had given a call for a Bihar bandh. ‘‘He has been involved in similar other incidents of arson. He has links with 10 members of Maoist Communist Council (MCC) active in Taryani,’’ said DCP (south) HGS Dhaliwal. MCC was reportedly run by Lakhender Paswan, who was recently arrested in Bihar.

TOI e-paper

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 25 Apr 2010 05:43

xpost
The fight against eco-imperialism

These environmental groups, while spanning quite a large spectrum, tend to demonstrate an affinity with the pro-rural socialist left. The report describes climate change as not just a threat but also an "opportunity" to re-think the entire global system. It challenges western notions of development and growth and, most starkly, concludes that "mere reform within the current global economic system will be insufficient" to tackle poverty in a carbon constrained future. Indeed, members of these groups often seem to embrace rural village life as representing a pre-industrial idyll which should be preserved.

Such romantic ideology therefore seeks to largely maintain the status quo – where the African poor are kept "traditional" and "indigenous". It's hard to disagree with Lord May, former president of the Royal Society in his observation that "much of the green movement isn't a green movement at all, it's political".

With poverty redefined in terms of the environment and infused with pro-rural socialism, large-scale projects to industrialise or modernise are not the priority – indeed, western-style development and modernisation are seen as part of the problem. Instead there is a self-limiting bottom-up approach which subsidises underdevelopment not as a transitionary phase but as an end goal.

Nihat · Post by **Nihat** » 26 Apr 2010 23:30

Pre-monsoon maoist moves on forces radar

Agencies Keeping An Eye On Naxal Movement To Bust Their Hideouts And Find Commanders

Bharti Jain NEW DELHI

EVEN as the Naxalites have launched a three-month-long tactical counter-offensive across the affected states ahead of monsoon, the intelligence agencies have begun encashing on the wider intelligence generated by increased movement of the Maoist cadres during this period to bust their hideouts and find their operational commanders.

The tactical counter-offensive is part of the Naxalites’ annual strategy to step up attacks on security forces and infrastructure such as railway tracks, communication and transmission towers to showcase their military might before the onset of monsoon forces them to retreat and put operations on hold. “This year too, the tactical counter-offensive campaign started on April 15 and will continue over the next three months,” Chhattisgarh director general of police Vishwa Ranjan told ET. He said Naxalites would intensify attacks on public property to underline their nuisance value.

However, he added, the counter-Naxal forces were prepared to take on the challenge thrown up by the Maoists. The forces plan to use the increased movement of Maoists during the offensive to generate pinpointed intelligence on their anticipated hideouts. This would be immediately followed up by laying ambushes along the prejudged routes and halts of the Naxalites.

“Our operations are going on across various Naxal-hit districts, be it Bijapur, Narayanpur, Dantewada & Kanker. We will try to correctly anticipate the movements of Naxalites and intercept them along the route,” said Mr Vishwa Ranjan.

Meanwhile, the CPI(Maoist) sub-committee on mass organisations has asked cadres to put pressure on the government to roll back its “offensive” against the Maoists.

Intelligence sources reveal militarisation of the CPI(Maoist)’s armed wing is continuing unabated. As compared to the guerrilla warfare, the mainstay of anti-Naxal operations thus far that required only 15-20 cadres for an attack, the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA), which will soon become the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), is now a more organised and militarised force comprising companies on the lines of the Army. Each company has 60-70 cadres and is allotted four LMGs each, besides automatic weapons and sniper rifles. These companies are trained on military lines and well-versed in the field manoeuvres adopted by conventional armies. Attacks are usually launched by two companies (around 140 Maoists), who converge on the attack site often at a short notice.

This is part of the mobile warfare that has now become the backbone of Naxalite operations. Under mobile warfare, the stress is not on trying to hold bases, but on hitting at distant places. The movements of the cadres are flexible, usually around 400 people collect at a target, hit it and then disperse.

Incidentally, the next stage of the militarisation would be positional warfare when Naxalites will concentrate on holding positions and confronting the state forces like a conventional army.
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Abhi_G · Post by **Abhi_G** » 27 Apr 2010 19:28

http://www.dailypioneer.com/252032/Maoi ... engal.html
Maoists blow up rail track in West Bengal

Maoist guerrillas blew up a foot of rail track in West Bengal's West Midnapore district, disrupting train services on day two of their shutdown in three states.

The incident occurred early in the day between Midnapore and Bhadutala stations when a pilot engine that precedes the Chakradharpur Passenger was crossing the spot. The engine driver felt the shock but there was no damage, Additional Director General (Railways) Dilip Mitra told IANS.

"There was a crack of one foot. The police, paramilitary forces and bomb squad personnel were rushed and the track was repaired," he said.

The Maoists called a two-day shutdown starting Monday in West Bengal, Jharkhand and Orissa to demand that their arrested comrades be brought to the courts speedily.

AnimeshP · Post by **AnimeshP** » 30 Apr 2010 05:18

Congress’ Secret Talks

Speaking to weekly current affairs and features magazine Open, senior Maoist ideologue Tusharkant Bhattacharya has said that he was approached by Digvijaya Singh in August 2009 through a Hyderabad-based Congress leader. Bhattacharya, who is one of the most senior and respected ideologues among Maoists was in Warangal jail then, facing trial in the historic 1976 Tappalpur raid case, in which Bhattacharya’s co-accused were the late Kondapalli Seetaramaiah, the founder of the People’s War Group, and Mupalla Laxman Rao alias Ganapathi, currently the supreme commander of the CPI (Maoist).

Bhattacharya says that, on behalf of his party, he had told the intermediary that they would not speak to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh or Home Minister P. Chidambaram whom they consider mere ‘bureaucrats’ but were willing to speak to ‘mass leaders’ like Digvijaya Singh.

He has revealed that a meeting between Digvijaya Singh and him was scheduled at a prominent hospital in Hyderabad, but before it could take place, Andhra Chief Minister YSR Reddy died in a helicopter crash and the meeting got shelved.

rohiths · Post by **rohiths** » 30 Apr 2010 06:35

Is the anti-maoist drive over? After Dantewada massacre we are hearing no news.
No pig has been killed and no important maoist arrested?
Is GoI secretly given up and staying silent to avoid public attention ?

arun · Post by **arun** » 30 Apr 2010 13:07

arun wrote: ............... Digvijay Singh, General Secretary of the AICC authors an article in the Economic Times.

In the article Digvijay Singh takes a potshot at his fellow Congress Party member, Home Minister P. Chidambaram, on policy towards the Maoist / Naxalite terrorists. Digvijay Singh claims off course that his potshot at his fellow Congress Party member is “personal”.

Rethink counter-Maoist strategy: Digvijay Singh to P Chidambaram

Congress party General Secretary Digvijay Singh expresses regret over writing the above linked article in the Economic Times (ET) that attacked Home Minister and Congress party colleague P. Chidambaram over policy regarding the Maoists / Naxalites:

Diggy sorry to embarrass party & govt

Abhi_G · Post by **Abhi_G** » 30 Apr 2010 19:00

Penetration by GoI or plane and simple treason and corruption?

http://www.dailypioneer.com/252719/Secu ... axals.html
Security personnel held for arming Naxals

A major arms racket was on Friday busted by Uttar Pradesh STF when it arrested five security personnel and a retired sub-inspector for allegedly supplying arms and ammunition to anti-social groups like Naxals.

The arrests, including that of two CRPF jawans, were made on the basis of inputs that after the Dantevada Naxal attack, in which 76 security personnel were killed, a large quantity of cartridges were being smuggled out of the CRPF group centre at Rampur via a source in Allahabad.

A team of special task force carried out raids in Moradabad, Rampur and Jhansi and arrested Vinod Paswan and Dinesh Singh of the CRPF last night, ADG (Law and Order) Brij Lal said in Lucknow.

Besides, a constable armourer in Moradabad Police Academy and a retired sub inspector armourer of 36 Battalion PAC, who is said to be the kingpin, were also arrested along with two policemen in Jhansi today, he said.

Over 5,000 live cartridges, 16 magazines of INSAS rifles, .25 bore guns, SLR and AK-47s were recovered besides 245 kg of empty shells, Lal said.

"Going by the size of recovery, it is clear that the weapons were being supplied to some big organisation which could even be a Naxal outfit{??}. Further details will be known only after completion of the investigations," he said.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 30 Apr 2010 20:42

Two CRPF jawans among four held for supplying arms to Naxals

Rajesh Kumar Singh, Hindustan Times
Lucknow, April 30, 2010

The bullets used by the Maoists to kill 76 CRPF jawans in Dantewada might have come from the ammunition depots of CRPF and Uttar Pradesh police.

The UP Special Task Force (STF) on Friday busted a gang consisting of working and retired police personnel that was involved in supplying ammunitions from the police armory to the Maoists and insurgent groups active in various parts of the country.

STF sleuths nabbed two armourers Vinod Paswan and Vinesh Singh posted at CRPF group center, Rampur, a state police armourer Nathi Ram posted at Bhimrao Ambedkar police Academy, Moradabad and a retired armourer Yashoda Nand Singh based at Allahabad.

A huge cache of cartridges used in INSAS rifle, AK-47, .38 bore revolver, 9mm pistol and 7.62 bore SLR rifle was recovered from their possession. The policemen team also seized large quantity of empty cartridges.

The ADG (Law and Order), Brij Lal said after the killing of the CRPF jawans in an ambush by the Maoists in Dantewada (Chattisgarh) on April 6 the SSP, STF Naveen Arora was tipped off that ammunitions as well as parts of the firearms was being supplied to the Maoists and anti social elements by a person based in Allahabad.

Through electronic surveillance and with the assistance of the informers the STF team zeroed on Yashoda Nand Singh the kingpin running the ammunition racket with the assistance of CRPF and state police armourers. On Friday the STF team was tipped off that a person was arriving from Allahabad to Rampur to collect the consignment of the ammunition.

The STF sleuths nabbed Yashoda Nand Singh, Vinod Pswan and Vinesh Singh from near a flyover in Civil Lines area of Rampur located 400 km west of Lucknow. The police team seized 1658 cartridges used in INSAS rifle, 600 cartridges of .38 bore revolver, 2860 cartridges of 9 mm pistol, 4 cartridges of AK- 47 and 28 cartridges of 7.62 bore self loading rifle from the trio.

Seven magazine of AK- 47, 6 of SLR, 1 of 9mm pistol and 1 magazine of INSAS rifle was also seized along with 34 kg empty cartridges of AK- 47, 9 kg empty cartridges of 7.62 bore SLR, 41 kg empty cartridges of 9mm pistol, 44 kg empty cartridges of INSAS rifle, 77 kg of light machine gun, 33 kg empty catridges of 303 bore rifle, five ammunition boxes, parts of firearms and Rs 1.76 lakh cash was also seized.

The interrogation of the trio indicated that network of ammunition racket was spread to the armory of UP Provincial Armed Police (PAC) and UP civil police located at Allahabad, Kanpur, Robertsganj, Mirzapur, Jhansi, Varanasi, Basti, Gonda and Chandauli. Later the police team nabbed two armourer of Jhansi police line, one armourer each posted at Varanasi, Chandauli, Sonbhadra, Mirzapur, Allahabad and Kanpur police line.

Brij Lal informed that initial interrogation of the trio indicates that they were supplying ammunition to the Maoists and insurgents for last one year. “The state police department has planned to constitute a team to interrogate all the armourers taken into custody jointly”, he said.

The district police had registered FIR against Vinod, Vinesh and Yashoda at Civil Lines police station Rampur. A separate FIR was registered against Nathi Ram at civil lines police station, Moradabad.

The interrogation of all police personnel taken into custody was continuing and involvement of the senior police officers of PAC and civil police in ammunition racket could not be ruled out.

How did the armourer managed to supply the cartridges of the CRPF and state police to the Maoists and insurgents?

The ADG (Law and Order) Brij Lal said the empty cartridges were an important tool in the racket. Each year large quantity of ammunition is supplied to the CRPF, PAC and civil police for shooting practice by the jawans. The armourers deputed at the CRPF group center, PAC battalion headquarter and civil police lines are custodian of the ammunition. They keep the record of the cartridges used in the firing and available in the stores.

During interrogation of Yashoda, Vinesh and Vinod the police team came to know that they used to show use of more cartridges than actually used by the jawans during the shooting session. The live cartridges were transported out of the armory and handed to the clients.

According to the rules the empty cartridges are cut to pieces and sold as scrap. Here again the armourers used to store the empty to exchange it with the live cartridges. While empty cartridge was kept in the armoury the live on was dispatched to the prospective buyer.

All the cartridges are of prohibited bore and not available in the open market. The Maoist and insurgents are armed with sophisticated weapons including AK- 47 INSAS rifle and SLR. They are dependent on the smugglers and often poach on the police armory to get the cartridges.

shyamd · Post by **shyamd** » 01 May 2010 00:48

Comparison of Omani operations against Communist guerrilla's. The author rightly draws parallels between the Omani situation in the 70's and the current Indian situation with Maoists. The author should have also mentioned that while Indian Maoists were receiving weapons/training from Nepali Maoists and the Chinese. The Omani movement (PFLO) were backed by PFL in Yemen and were also backed by KSA who were playing the TSP role (funding, training, arming, KSA air force planes dropping supplies in support of the rebels).

It is a worth studying how Oman finally defeated the Communist rebels, as there are a lot of similarities.
We’re fighting a guerrilla war

Gautam Mukherjee

While the Vietnam War was raging, with the Americans unable to subdue the Viet Cong, there was a little-known war being fought against Communist-inspired and trained mountain tribesmen in the Gulf. But fortunately for the ‘free world’ and its dependence on petroleum, this one was decisively won in the mist-shrouded mountains of Dhofar, bordering Socialist South Yemen.

The winning force was professional and multi-national, even as the wily enemy routinely inflicted heavy casualties on it. The Sandhurst-trained Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman wisely asked for help. And so there were Iranians from the Shah of Iran’s Army, the largest contingent of British forces involved overseas since the Korean War, and Omani soldiers drawn from tough men of Zanzibari and Balochi extraction.

The key to victory, however, was the discipline that had been inculcated by British officers in the Sultan of Oman’s armed forces, ably assisted by seconded officers and soldiers from the fabled British 22nd SAS Regiment of commandos. This war, largely off the world’s radar, secured the Arabian Gulf from a determined takeover attempt by Communist forces from both China and the Soviet Union, working through ‘Adoo’ tribal irregulars.

Following the recent hardening of the conflict between the Indian state and the Maoists, the considerable similarities with that little-known war in Dhofar are remarkable. Hopefully we will be spared the fact that the war in Dhofar raged for two decades.

The Dhofar war is in mention again thanks to the appearance of a new book by British SAS officer Ian Gardiner who was there. It’s called:In the Service of the Sultan, published in February. This book is relevant because it raises some of the very same issues at stake now in India, particularly when viewed from the perspective of a Chinese Communist-backed insurgency.

The Maoist insurgency has only nominally to do with tribal neglect and underdevelopment. It is more about a determined and well-planned attempt by the Maoists to take over the Indian state from within. The Maoists are dead serious. And their war on the Union of India is designed to ruthlessly debilitate, injure, thwart, bleed, encircle, corner, and destabilise a thriving, if far from perfect, democracy.

Yet, even as India stands bloodied, it remains complacent and does not call for external help from nations like Israel trained in counter-insurgency and battling guerrillas. You would think that we were being threatened by bow-and-arrow-wielding Adivasis, and not trained commandoes expert at jungle warfare and thoroughly conversant with their territory. They allegedly have access to training by military experts from China and the erstwhile Tamil Tigers, apart from many others.

Not only have the Maoists demonstrated their savage military prowess and the penetration of state agencies by their intelligencce-gathering squads, they have also managed to grab media space to publicise their so-called ‘lofty motives’ and whitewash their crimes through sympathisers among the NGO community and certain Left-leaning members of the intelligentsia.

The Government has underestimated this threat for far too long. The dilemma is about what level of force to use to deal with an internal challenge to the state. The Omanis, however, did not suffer from such semantic worries. They used helicopter gunships, fighters, the best and latest weaponry and training, intense patrolling, and a powerful hearts-and-minds campaign. Even then, it took two decades to finally win the war.

So, it is interesting to consider, as we fiddle around with debates on the choice of weapons, what kind of South Asia might obtain if we were to lose to the Maoists. Instead of becoming a counterpoint to Chinese ascendancy, India would all but lose its sovereignty to become a sort of Vichy State under Chinese over-lordship.

The Dhofar war had to be prosecuted not only in the mountains bordering Yemen but also far away in order to cut supply routes across the Indian Ocean. It was also to protect the arteries that connected Omani oil fields, pipelines and highways across the country. It forced the rapid modernisation of the sultanate from aoverlooked backwaters into a modern state and valued strategic ally of the West, perched as Oman is at the mouth of the Gulf of Hormuz.

There are lessons in this for India. The Maoists have already talked of taking the battle into the cities for example.

Coincidentally, I have lived in both Bastar and Muscat. I was a little boy in 1959 when we lived in Jagdalpur. My father was a Government civil engineer and had volunteered for the experimental Dandakaranya Project for the resettlement of East Bengali refugees.

I remember idyllic afternoons catching mud crabs on the banks of the river nearby and Mowgli-like trips to the deep forest replete with tented camps, jungle sounds, thunderous waterfalls and bare-bodied, bow-and-arrow-toting tribals. But even in 1960, the steel smelting furnaces of Bhilai were being lit. The propaganda of neglect which is treated as nearly axiomatic in the debate on causes of Maoism may actually be much exaggerated.

We lived in Oman also, through its scorching developmental years even as it fought off the Communists using the most modern means at its command. India too needs to modernise its armed response to the Maoist insurgency, even as its economy develops rapidly. We need to invest all the men, resources, planning, soft skills and technical expertise necessary to eliminate the Maoist threat in the shortest possible time. Given that we are confronted by hostile neighbours on more than one front, in addition to the depredations of Islamist terrorists and other insurrections in the North-East, we cannot afford the luxury of a long war of attrition.

Guerrilla war may indeed mean ‘little war’ in Spanish; but with its reliance on trickery, sabotage, ambushes and raids, its efficacy can be borne out by its disconcertingly successful track record. Witness the People’s Liberation Army in Mao Tse-Tung’s China, Fidel Castro’s rebellion in Cuba, the Viet Cong in North Vietnam, the Irish Republican Army, the Kosovo War and so on.

In fact, guerrilla war, with its flexibility, relatively low cost, its undeclared ability to harass and weaken, could well become the preferred mode of future conflict between nations. There are indeed many advantages to its conduct, both stated and unstated. But as Henry Kissinger famously explained, “The conventional Army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.”

archan · Post by **archan** » 02 May 2010 09:29

Surrendered woman Maoist alleges torture by fellow Naxalites
Girl raped for leaving Maoist ranks: police

A 16-year-old girl affiliated to a Maoist outfit was allegedly raped by other members for fleeing the camp in Latehar district of Jharkhand, police said today.
"The girl ran away from a camp about five days ago. She was caught by the ultras, beaten up and raped when she refused to return," Superintendent of Police Kuldeep Dwivedi said.

Suppiah · Post by **Suppiah** » 02 May 2010 18:20

DH also reported this. The Naxal controlled rapist goon propaganda yellow daily of course, cleverly left out all stories of harassment, torture, rape etc.

Pratyush · Post by **Pratyush** » 03 May 2010 15:51

PTI reporting

Four BMP jawans killed in Maoist attack

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 04 May 2010 14:26

Maoists in Delhi: Is the Police Prepared? ---- P. V. Ramana
http://www.idsa.in/idsacomments/Maoists ... ana_030510

Anti-Naxal Operations: Employment of Armed Forces ---- Rumel Dahiya
http://www.idsa.in/issuebrief/Anti-Naxa ... iya_040510

Neela · Post by **Neela** » 05 May 2010 12:57

BBC - Inside the Maoist insurgency in India's Jharkand state

"Life was very difficult. I joined the party and now I understand many more things. I think revolution is the only option."
One thing you should know about this hardline Maoist rebel - she is a young woman.

"The party makes sure there is no tension between rich and poor… that's why we want the party here."

Ah so sweet! so fair! So perfect!

UK folks : FYI :
Alpa Shah reports from Jharkand for Crossing Continents at 1102 BST on 6 May on BBC Radio 4 . If there is a call-in service, please call her and congratulate here on her short-term stay at the inconvenient, poorest areas of India and how her article title "Inside the Maoist insurgency" reflects the true picture!

Suppiah · Post by **Suppiah** » 05 May 2010 14:35

Maoists dont want Mittal to mine in Jharkand

Now no prizes for guessing if the rapist goons, their yellow puppets as well as sections of JNU 'intelligentsia' that have sold their souls to the rapists and murderers will project this as 'Maoists against development' or 'Maoists prevent exploitation of poor tribals and depriving them of their rights in the name of development'

Neela · Post by **Neela** » 07 May 2010 12:58

Support Naxals, face punishment

Toughening its stance against Naxalites, the Centre on Thursday warned Maoist sympathizers — including members of civil society and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) — found supporting the ultras by propagating their ideology or by any other means to be ready to face severe punishment.

After Dantewada, the Maoist sympathisers would have have helped their cause if they had expressed remorse or just STFU. Instead they went insolent.

The declaration of the new intent came a day after home minister P Chidambaram was heckled in JNU, though the Centre's annoyance over continued support for the extremists from sections of civil society goes back a while.

These morons have little or no clue about the full force of the massive concrete fist that is the government . When it hits, these guys are pummelled into oblivion. All the state instruments suddenly become attack dogs! For example, this below: the GoI can act on this if it wants.

A senior Delhi Police officer said there was ''growing evidence'' that a section of the intelligentsia was helping the Naxal leaders flee states like Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Orissa and West Bengal to set up base in colonies of east and south Delhi. ''Besides this, these individuals are also helping various frontal organizations of the Maoists to raise funds,'' said the official.

The really vocal and active guys at the grassroots and mid-level are the first to face the law because they are also plain stupid. The guys at the top know the law well and play it clean.

We have waited far too long to reach this stage. Would have been happy if the GoI declares the Maoists are waging war against India. ( Or have they done it already)

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What PC experienced at JNU especially coming after Dantewada. ( See, no matter how thick-skinned a person is, something like Dantewada will hurt him. PC comes from Chettinad where honour is sacrosanct. Heckling him is going to definitely invite trouble. )

http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news ... NU/615841/

From the above link: the standard swipe of a a schizophrenic nutcase on Hindu fundoos!

"The corporates and Hindu fundamentalists are the biggest threat to democracy, not Naxalism" said one of the pamphlets issued by DSU.

Suppiah · Post by **Suppiah** » 07 May 2010 14:23

I dont understand why these budding future mass murderers and rapist goons and eye-gougers also threw in the demand to hang Afzal Guru in their pamphlets / placards..I would have thought he was their toast? Or is it to fool the general public into supporting their treacherous agenda?

chaanakya · Post by **chaanakya** » 07 May 2010 18:47

Government Asks People to Be Vigilant of CPI (Maoist) Propaganda

It has come to the notice of the Government that some Maoist leaders have been directly contacting certain NGOs/intellectuals to propagate their ideology and persuade them to take steps as would provide support to the CPI (Maoist) ideology. It is brought to the notice of the general public that under Section 39 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, any person who commits the offence of supporting such a terrorist organization with inter alia intention to further the activities of such terrorist organizations would be liable to be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years or with fine or with both. General public are informed to be extremely vigilant of the propaganda of CPI (Maoist) and not unwittingly become a victim of such propaganda.

This is being issued in public interest so that the general public are aware that the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and all its formations and front organizations are terrorist organizations whose sole aim is armed overthrow of the Indian State and that they have no place in India’s parliamentary democracy. CPI (Maoist) continues to kill innocent civilians including tribals in cold blood and destroy crucial infrastructure like roads, culverts, school buildings, gram panchayat buildings, etc. so as to prevent development from reaching these under-developed areas.

Screw is about to be tightened on these morons. Witness IPL, BCCI and LKM.