After series of setback to government of India in massacre of its CRPF jawans by Maoists in forests in Chattishgarh, Andhra Police finally killed one of the top leaders of Maoist, Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad ina n encounter in Adilabad, Andhra Pradesh as per reports.

While, in the expected line, Maoists are claiming that, Azad was captured in Nagpur and killed in ‘fake encounter’, but this is a success by Government of India. It has been able to capture few top Maoist leaders recently.

The body of Azad, a senior member of the CPI (Maoist) Central Committee who was killed in an encounter in Adilabad district on Friday, was today cremated at Punjagutta crematorium in Hyderabad in the presence of his family members and a large number of people including Maoist sympathisers and revolutionary poets- Varavara Rao and Kalyan Rao.

In a statement, the the CPI (Maoist) alleged that Azad was “murdered” by intelligence agencies of the Centre and Andhra Pradesh government.

Hailing Azad, who was the Maoist spokesman, it said he has become the “mind and soul of Indian revolution through his consistent and efficient work” and vowed to avenge his death.

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Naxalites guerillas ambushed a team of security personnel in the restive Narayanpur district of Chhattisgarh, killing at least 26 jawans of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and injuring over a dozen others on 30th June 2010.

The incident took place at about 3 pm in Jharaghati area between Dhaurai and Gawadi, about 250 km south-west from here.

A senior official in the police headquarters here said that about 70 jawans of the 39th battalion of CRPF left the Dhaurai police station this morning for road opening duty. As the jawans reached the spot, the rebels opened indiscriminate fire at them. The CRPF jawans who were accompanied by the Special Task Force and Special Police Officers took the position and returned fire after suffering heavy casualty.

The senior police officials here confirmed the death of 26 jawans and said the toll could go up as many jawans injured in the attack were in critical condition.

This is the second biggest attack on the CRPF that had been deployed in the Naxal-infested areas to combat the red army. On April 6, the rebels ambushed a CRPF party in Dantewada district, killing 75 jawans in the biggest Naxal attack on the security personnel in the country.

Naxalites are killing CRPF men at will almost. While Indian Government looks like it has no clue how to tackle Naxalites threat to the country.

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Today, Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh agreed that there has been a systematic failure in giving stake to tribal people in modern India’s development. This acknowledgment is important due to recent spurt in Maoist/Naxalite violence across the Naxalite affected areas.

Maoists with sophisticated weapon

Maoist and Naxalites are exploiting the situation and now Maoists claim that they are fighting for rights of tribal population. Tribal population has been discriminated traditionally by other communities. Though India has taken many measures to eliminate these discrimination including reservation policy, strong act against any discrimination against tribal population, but there has not been much improvement.

Recently, there was demand from many corners in India to use military against Naxalites and Maoists after Maoists killed many policemen in ambush. Indian security forces are more worried due to recent disclosure of Indian Maoists getting support in terms of arms and ammunition from foreign countries.

Naxalite movement started in 1960s in urban areas with many brilliant students joining it. Though it was brutally crushed, but it spread to tribal areas. So, presently, Maoists and Naxalite influences are visible in tribal dominated areas in India. So the reaching out to tribal population by Indian Prime Minister should be viewed as an attempt to win away them from Naxalite and Maoist influence.

Mr Singh said India had to win the battle for tribal people’s hearts.

“It cannot be said that we dealt sensitively with these issues in the past. More could be done and more should be done.”

I will be interesting to see, what steps now government of India takes for uplifting tribal population.

The news :

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has told chief ministers from 29 Indian states to end exploitation of tribal people. Speaking at a conference in Delhi, Mr Singh said there had been a “systematic failure” to give tribal people a stake in India’s modern economy.
He said this was fomenting discontent, making them vulnerable to Maoists. Source.

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Recently Maoists beheaded one Police office, Francis Induwar in Jharkhand in the first week of October 2009. After that, Maoists abducted police officers, Atindranath Dutta, in West Bengal, whom they claimed to be prisoner of war.

Kolkata, Oct 22: Maoist leader Kishenji on Thursday, Oct 22, said that the kinapped police officer will be released as the women who were arrested by security forces from Lalgarh were granted bail. “Atindranath Dutta, who was taken as a Prisoner of War on Tuesday, Oct 20, from Sankrail police station, will be released,” he said over phone.

When asked if the government has accepted the demand of releasing the women, Kishenji said that there were 15 women altogether whose bail applications were taken up by a court. “They have got the bail. After they come back, we will release the officer-in-charge,” he said.

The Maoist leader did not reveal if anybody from the government side came for negotiation. “Right now, I cannot disclose anything more,” he said.

Assuring the family members of Dutta, Kishenji said, “I assure that he will be released. The Maoists never kill Prisoners of War.”

Arundhati Roy came out of support of unconditional talks with Naxalites today.

NEW DELHI: Supporting unconditional talks with the Maoists, Booker prize winner and activist Arundhati Roy has alleged that “economic interests”
in mineral-rich states have driven the government and establishment to launch action against them.

“My fear is that because of this economic interest the government and establishment actually needs a war. It needs to militarise. For that it needs an enemy. And so in a way what the Muslims were to BJP, the Maoists are to Congress…,” Roy said in an interview to a TV news channel.

When asked about the talks between the government and left wing extremists, she said, “There should be unconditional talks with the Maoists. Source.

Government promptly slammed Naxalite sympathizers.

A day after four CISF jawans were killed in an attack by Maoists in Chhattisgarh, the Home Ministry on Monday slammed those supporting the Maoists.
According to a note released, the Home Ministry has condemned the attack on a Public Sector Unit (PSU) in Chhattisgarh and questioned the motive behind the violence. The ministry also states that pro-Maoist sympathisers must think over the violence by the Maoists. Source.

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RAIPUR, 12 July 2009: Twenty-six police personnel, including a Superintendent of Police SP V K Choubey, were on Sunday killed in two separate attacks by Maoists in Rajnandgaon district of Chhattisgarh, India. The police party was going to a police camp at Madanwada.

Details briefing is still awaited. But I always think, Maoist threat in India may be much more serious and most probably, Indian central government is not taking it seriously as it should have taken. I also sincerely believe, it may not be a mere law and order situation, but a fault line in the very concept of India, after 1947.

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Lalgarh is a village in Jhargram subdivision of West Midnapore district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It has been in news recently as it was ‘liberated’ from Indian state by Naxalites last week.

Naxalites claim few areas inside India as “liberated” zone. Dantewara in Chattishgarh of Indian state is a place which Naxalites claim to be “liberated zone”. West Midanpore in West Bengal is one such area which Naxalites claim to be their second “liberated zone”. Lalgarh was brought to national media and got wide publicity and front page coverage due to killing CPM leaders in broad daylight in Bankshole village. Also policemen fled from their Police Station from Lalgarh to escape the fiery onslaught of Naxal cadres.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who has called the Maoists the “gravest challenge to India’s security”, told: “The home minister has good ideas and we will take effective action. Its [the Naxalite issue’s] seriousness is fully appreciated and recognised by our government, as per reports.

Now, most probably, many Indians living in cities with malls, broadband connection, IPhone 3Gs may not have realised in India itself, there are pockets of area where Indian state does not exist! Naxalites do not recognise Indian state to be legitimate and do not believe in famed Indian democracy. Most probably, this could a shocking news as we are fed to believe India to the largest democratic country in the world by every print, visual media, day in and day out.

Naxalites control ‘Liberated Zones’ within Indian states, which needs to be occupied back by Indian security forces almost routinely now. After 61 years of so-called independence and 15 elections, the very fact that Indian Security forces needs to mount attacks inside its claimed territory to establish rule of the Indian Government, should be an eye opener to every one what is wrong with India!

Terrorism, cross-border terrorism, Islamic Fundamentalism, Osama, Al Qaida etc. are covered in every media while avoiding the stark truth of Indian state in certain areas! India needs to wake up to it reality as shown by Naxalites and face it to solve the problems. Else it might cut a very sorry figure for India in international stages barring its famed IT, Democracy etc.

Few News Articles one should not miss :

Times of India : Forces take Lalgarh back from Naxalites
LALGARH: Three days after the West Bengal government finally moved against the Naxalites, security
forces marched into Lalgarh on Saturday and took control of the police station, a symbolic victory in reclaiming a nondescript building from where state cops had fled to escape the fiery onslaught of Naxal cadres.

Hindustan Times : Naxals dig in, Kolkata dithers over Lalgarh
As three of the five companies of Central paramilitary forces awaited instructions from an undecided, floundering Bengal government to enter the Maoist state within state in this corner of west Midnapore bordering Jharkhand, the flag bearers of India’s most powerful and long-lived extremist movement unleashed carnage yet again, killing three CPI(M) workers in a drive-by shooting and destroying homes of other party leaders.

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Naxal attack at various places in India left 17 people dead on 16th April 2009. The dead includes 5 Polling Officials, 10 BSF ( Border Security Force), a paramilitary force. Naxal ( or Naxalites) many places in four Indian states, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh and Orissa.

The News Here :

Ranchi/Latehar/Gaya:
Stepping up their attacks, Maoists struck in Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Orissa, killing 17 people, including five election officials and ten security personnel, and looted electronic voting machines in a bid to disrupt the first phase of polling for Lok Sabha. Naxalites blew up a vehicle carrying poll officials in Chhattisgarh’s Rajnandgaon district, killing five of them and injuring two others, police said. Source and complete story here.

Who are Naxalites ?

They are armed groups waging a violent struggle on behalf of landless labourers and tribal people against landlords and others. They are leftist and inspired by Mao and as per them, they are fighting oppression and exploitation to create a classless society.

According to Indian Prime Minister, Naxals or Naxalites poses the biggest internal threat to India. And rightly so, they are active in almost 350 districts out of Indias around 850 districts. In a way, one can say they are so called group who claim to be representing India’s 26% people below poverty line(BPL).

They are not normal religious terrorists. They do not get coverage in premium TV news as their struggle is not glamorous or entertaining as Mumbai attack or so. During same in Mumbai attack, on 30th November, 2008, they trapped and ambushed 39 Elite Police Commandos from Andhra Pradesh and Orissa. This news were not headlines. And they are popular in many areas.

They attack as an army. They attack in big numbers, occupy a town itself for few hours before they are beaten back by Indian Paramilitary forces.

They do not recognise Indian state. They have strong romantic appeal among many educated and intelligent youths. Many people say, they have many intellectuals and highly educated people int heir ranks.

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