Real faces of the enemies of India
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Two incidents have exposed some real faces of the enemies of India, masquerading as respectable citizens – first being the killing of the Maoist leader Azad and the latest, abduction of security personnel in Bihar.
There were plethora of intelligence inputs which indicated that Maoists were planning to carry out large scale attacks in Bihar to subvert the election process by way of terrorism.
On 29 August 2010, they had abducted a BDO in north-Bihar. A few days before, huge amount of explosives, enough to cause mayhem in whole of Bihar, was seized in Munger.
When the Maoists abducted the security personnel, they were certain that the state would yield. The tough posturing by the state has completely unsettled them and their representative in Delhi.
Some of them are soliciting air-time on various TV channels. Some channels, given their pro-Maoist and leftist bias, are only too willing to go out of their way to accommodate them. Some of these elements were in touch with the Maoists in deciding whether Abhay Yadav or Tete should be eliminated first in order to carryout effective bargain. It is learnt that in the interest of the Maoist movement in Bihar, they decided on Tete as he belonged to Chhattisgarh.
To the Maoists, the loss of Cherukuri Rajkuma Azad has been severe because it came in the wake of the massacre of CRPF personnel at Dantewada after which the Maoists were riding a new high. Psychologically, the Maoists had begun to feel invincible, as it often happens with terrorist groups when they begin to underestimate the State’s capability to strike back.
The loss of one leader should not have mattered to an ideological and militant cadre based anti-national outfit. But the Maoists or any such groups are very sensitive to the loss of their top leadership because they constitute ‘the brain’, and Azad was one of them. The Maoists are conscious that once the top leadership is neutralized, such movements begin to flounder. The loss of lower-level or to an extent middle-level leadership does not cause much disconcertment among the Maoists, because they are easily supplanted.
Terrorism is like a hydra (with several heads) monster. To crush it, all heads have to be severed. The underground Maoist leadership is just one head, but the most difficult head to severe is the vast network of Maoist in form of individuals and organizations, who in the veneer of social activism, intellectualism and white collared professionals are engaged in anti-national activities.
Having been associated with the ultra-leftist movement for more than four decades, Azad was at the apex of the Maoist hierarchy. During this period, he had built extensive links with forces inimical to India namely the LTTE, the New Peoples Army of Philippines, the Maoists in Nepal, elements in China, the ISI of Pakistan, insurgent groups in the northeast, and Islamic terrorists in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
The top Maoist leadership is so unnerved at the loss of Azad because the Indian Security apparatus has been able to track down other top leaders as well. Most of them feel that they are next in the line. As per some sources, on several occasions, the Indian agencies through its human and technical resources were successful in ascertaining the pin-point location of Kishanji, but deliberately allowed him to slip on the orders of the government due to tactical reasons. Reportedly, on one occasion, it was done at the behest of the West Bengal government.
More than anything else, the killing of Azad has exposed the level of infiltration and wide network of Maoists in the media, in the universities (both amongst students and teachers), amongst the academicians and so called intellectuals, and above all the mainstream politicians. Even if, the allegations of ‘false encounter’ are true, the din of the orchestrated clamour for investigation into death of a person, who was a criminal and a fugitive from law is inexplicable to the countrymen.
Azad was involved in a dozen murders including the killing of the Congress leader Narsa Reddy. He carried a reward of Rs.12,00,000/-
The common law-abiding citizens of this country are confounded to see a ‘saffron clad activist’, a one book wonder fiction writer and a cabinet minister, along with many others of their ilk, so passionately demanding a probe into Azad’s killing as if it was a ‘martyrdom’, and as if the entire solution to the Maoist problem hinges on proving that Azad was killed in a false encounter.
Recently on 3rd August, a public meeting to demand the judicial enquiry into the alleged fake-encounter of Azad was attended by these very elements in Delhi. Significantly, it was addressed by the Chairman EM Abdul Rahman of Popular Front of India, an extremist Islamic organization active in South India, which was recently in news for allegedly chopping off the hands of a Christian professor in Kerala. The dangerous internal and external linkages of the Maoists came to the fore in this meeting.
A comment on a web article ‘HC turns down slain Naxal leader’s mother’s plea’ on rediff.com, sums up the common man’s feeling: “actually Azad was a Gandhian. He had never hurt a fly, not even a mosquito. So much, he never used a mosquito repellent. When police found with a AK-47, Azad did not know it was real. Out of fun, he fired at the police thinking it was fake … so police should be pulled up for killing a fake Maoist”.
A weekly English magazine has devoted its issue on the incident. There are graffiti all over Jawaharlal Nehru University in support of Azad. It is a university, where education is almost totally subsidized by the Government of India just as Azad received similar subsidized education at Regional Engineering College, Warangal from where he got his M.Tech degree.
The Maoists have managed to draw wedge in the Indian polity, in fact, in every segment of Indian society. They have also been trying to divide the security forces and play on their sentiments. One activist urged the Nitish Government on television to not to treat his security personnel as insects and meet the demands of the Maoists. He has appealed to the Maoist leader Avinash (alluded as Avinash ji by the activist) to postpone the deadline of elimination of the remaining three policemen by 24 hours. He is continuously urging the government to release the eight Maoist leaders in jail. Not once, has he urged the Maoists to release the abducted policemen immediately and without conditions. It is for the readers to decide whether he is an activist, or a politician, or a Maoist.
Another Maoist sympathizer has tried to drive a wedge in the security forces by saying on television that the government only acts when officers are abducted, then he went to communalize the issue by suggesting that the government has not been acting to meet the Maoist demands because members of certain religious communities were amongst the hostage. These are most dangerous faces of the Maoists.
Terrorism is like a hydra (with several heads) monster. To crush it, all heads have to be severed. The underground Maoist leadership is just one head, but the most difficult head to severe is the vast network of Maoist in form of individuals and organizations, who in the veneer of social activism, intellectualism and white collared professionals are engaged in anti-national activities. They are pathologically anti-establishment, who specialize in indoctrinating unsuspecting and innocent minds to view the glass ‘half empty’ rather than ‘half full’. It is this constituency that we see on an overdrive on the Azad issue and the latest abduction by Maoists in Bihar. They are struggling for the preservation and promotion of the Maoist cause even if it means the withering of India. Unless, they are crushed the curse of leftwing extremism, will keep ‘growing its limbs’.
In their youth, some of these elements manage to join the academics and civil services. Few amongst them, change their ways after tasting the power and privileges. The left-outs and the hardcore ones continue to subvert the country for the rest of their lives. They are partly sustained by ideology, partly by their individual and external agenda, partly by monetary inducements from Maoists and external sources. The government has details about their anti-national activities, but they are getting away because of the magnanimity of the liberal Indian political system, which they want to overthrow by the barrel of the gun.