CPI (ML) targets private hospitals
29 June, 2007
Monday June 25 2007 12:28 IST
NIZAMABAD: The CPI (ML) New Democracy party's effort in the name of 'Prajarogya Parirakshana' is sending jitters to the private medical sector.
The party along with its related organisation All India Kisan Mazdoor Sangh (AIKMS) is now initiating all-party movement against injustice in the medical sector and trying to check looting of patients by the big hospitals.
The Telugu Desam Government has introduced an Act for checking the private medical sector and the Congress Government has released GO 135 recently to augment its implementation.
However, there seems to be no impact of the Act on the private hospitals. In such a scenario, the CPI (ML) with partnership of Telugu Desam, TRS and people's organisations formed a committee in Armoor for implementing its programme.
The newly formed committee has submitted one memorandum to the government and another to the Indian Medical Association (IMA) giving it two months time to ensure that the managements of the private hospitals function according to the Private Nursing Home Regulatory Act.
The CPI (ML) leaders also suggested the IMA representatives to see that the managements agree for running the hospitals in favour of public.
Buoyed with few recent successes in this area, the party has also prepared an action plan for spreading the movement to other districts like Nizamabad, Karimnagar and other areas.
The party had made one RMP in Armoor mandal bear the expenses for the treatment of one patient in a corporate hospital after his treatment on the person had an unwanted effect.
In another case, a young advocate had received timely medical service in Kammarapalli.
The party's efforts had even prompted some high-level officials suggest to the management of a private hospital to pay compensation to the bereaved family of a Dalit woman who died in their hospital.
AIKMS State secretary V Prabhakar called upon all politcal parties and people's organisations to join hand with them in their endeavour.
He ruled out allegations that their partymen were attacking doctors.
Meanwhile, Andhra Pradesh Nursing Homes Association district unit secretary E Ravinder Reddy said the CPI (ML) was asking for payment of compensation to the bereaved families of deceased in their hospitals and made it clear that it was not possible.
"Encouraging such incidents might prevent doctors from taking up serious cases," he feared. IMA district unit secretary Dr Mahipal Reddy said the party's efforts to check the medical profession was giving rise to new problems.
DM&HO MVVS Murhty said they do not have any information about the introduction of the Private Nursing Home Act. We are still awaiting for government orders, he said.
posted by Bimal 29.6.07,
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Nandigram on the boil again
New Delhi: Nandigram continues to be on the boil. CPI-M activists and farmers reportedly hurled crude bombs at each other on Friday morning.
After a lull of ten days, fresh violence erupted on Thursday evening. One person was wounded in firing between an anti-land acquisition group and CPI-M activists.
The firing took place at Tekhalibazar, the same area where supporters of Bhumi Uchched Pratirodh Committee (Anti Land Acquisition group) and CPI-M had traded fire sporadically for three days from Ju
ne 15.
Around 200 policemen were deployed on Thursday to bring the situation under control.
The Bengal government's plans for a special economic zone in Nandigram were scrapped soon after 14 people died in police firing on March 14. But sporadic clashes between CPI-M activists and farmers against land acquisition are yet to stop.
East Midnapore district superintendent of police G A Srinivas said the firing between the two sides began at 0700 hrs, IST and continued for an hour.
He said one person was injured in the exchange of fire. BUPC convenor Sheikh Suffian claimed the injured Nishi Kanta Pradhan was a Committee supporter.
Suffian also claimed CPI-M cadres had fired 30 rounds at Committee supporters at Tekhalibazar.
posted by Bimal 29.6.07,
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Govt Must Bear Responsibility for Encounter Killings - NCHRO
| Press Release Mumbai, Jun 29: The following are the resolutions adopted at the meeting of Human Rights and Civil Society Activists called by the National Confederation of Human Rights Organization (NCHRO), on the occasion of International Day of "Solidarity with Victims of Torture", held at the Mumbai Patrakar Sangh hall on June 26, 2007. Encounter killings are part of a deliberate and conscious state administrative practice for which the Indian government must bear responsibility. The successive political groups in power sanctified this de facto policy of extra-judicial killings by members of the police forces, the armed forces and para-military security personnel in Jammu and Kashmir, Assam, Manipur and Tripura and by state armed police in Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Gujarat in the name of eliminating naxalites, terrorists or criminals. The State has armed itself with draconian laws such as Armed Forces Special Powers Act, Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, and derivative state legislations which are irrational, unjust and against the principles of natural justice. These laws justify preventive detention and encourage extraction of confessions by any method. The United Nations Basic Principles emphasise that the use of force and firearms by law enforcement officials should be in consonance with respect for human rights. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that "everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person." Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) provides that "every human being has the inherent right to life. This right shall be protected by law. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his life." Extra-judicial killings clearly contravene the right to life. India ratified ICCPR in 1979 and signed the convention against torture since 1997, but it has since betrayed its commitment to take effective measures to ensure that extra-judicial killings do not occur. It is yet to follow-up on that and have a ratification of the said convention. The rapid increase in the number of such killings flies in the face of the Right to Life as enshrined in Article 21 of the Indian Constitution. These antiquated laws are yet to be amended and brought in line with international practices. Infact there is no real investigation into such extra-judicial killings. It is no surprise therefore that the guilty in the police and security forces remain unpunished. The hopes that a just civil society had in the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), have been belied because of serious flaws in the Statutes. The NHRC and other National Commissions too have not been able to call the guilty to account for violence against religious minorities, women, dalits and tribals. This "National Convention on Encounter Killings" organized by National Confederation of Human Rights Organizations (NCHRO) in association with Amnesty International of India on this 26th day of June 2007, on the International Anti-torture day, notes gross violation of human rights, specially of torture and extra judicial deaths in many countries. The Convention condemns the assault on human dignity in the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay in the Cuban island, the military prisons in Iraq, and the situation in countries of South Asia and thereby demands the following: We demand from the Government of India and State Governments, the following:
Maintain the sanctity of the ultimate power of Clemency now being exercised by the President of India and by State Governors from judicial and political aggression and encroachments. |
posted by Bimal 29.6.07,
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Philippine Maoists attack on army outpost, kill 7 troops
MANILA (Reuters) - About 70 communist New People's Army (NPA) rebels attacked and overran an army outpost on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, killing a soldier and six part-time troops, a police general said on Friday.
Antonio Nanas, regional police chief, said the Maoist rebels surprised an undermanned army outpost in Las Nieves town late on Tuesday night, attacking from three directions.
"A soldier was killed in the initial burst of gunfire," Nanas told reporters, adding a team of soldiers and reservists defended their positions for several minutes before they were overwhelmed by superior firepower.
The rebels ransacked the detachment and captured six reservists. They were later executed. "We found their bodies not far from the outpost," he said.
The NPA, fighting one of the world's oldest communist insurgencies and active in 69 of 81 provinces, often attacks remote military and police facilities to steal weapons and ammunition.
The Philippines, which is also fighting Muslim insurgents, has said that the NPA is its biggest security threat. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ordered an all-out war against the communists in June 2006.
Peace talks between the government and the rebels stalled in 2004 after the United States and some European countries put the NPA and its leaders on terrorist blacklists
On Thursday, the NPA's political leaders, based in The Netherlands, rejected Manila's proposal for a ceasefire as a condition before talks could be re-started, describing it as an unacceptable demand tantamount to capitulation.
posted by Bimal 29.6.07,
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Maoist leader Babulal gets life term
Rebel Babulal gets life term |
| OUR CORRESPONDENT |
| Giridih, June 28: A fast track court today awarded life term to Babulal Murmu, an extremist, for his futile attempt to kill former chief minister Babulal Marandi four years ago. The ninth fast track court of additional district and sessions judge R.D. Yadav pronounced the punishment after hearing 17 out of 18 chargesheeted witnesses. At least eight prime witnesses, including several police officers and villagers, identified Babulal as one of the attackers. The police had booked Babulal under the Arms Act, too, but the court did not sentence him on that account. A group of CPI(Maoist) activists had attacked the security personnel guarding Marandi on September 6, 2003, at Sidhwa-Soti in Tisri to kill the former chief minister. In the ambush, the rebels triggered three landmine blasts and opened fire on Marandi's security forces and killed three persons — constable Claiment Soren and villagers Paura Kisku and Mahendra Sharma. Babulal, Vishnu Rajwar, Taslumuddin, Ganauri Ravidas and two others were named accused in the case with 200 others in the unknown category. On November 14, 2003, Tisri police arrested Babulal. Since then, he was under trial in the Giridih court. Other than the attack on Marandi, Maoists have committed several crimes, including butchering 16 villagers in Bhelwaghati and looting rifles from the homeguard training centre, in the area. But in most of the cases the police had to release the accused persons due to lack of evidence. |
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posted by Bimal 29.6.07,
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Oriss: House debates Maoist menace
Statesman News Service
BHUBANESWAR, June 28: The Maoist menace needs to be viewed in proper perspective as it is not confined to Orissa. The incidence of violence during their current economic blockade have taken place in several states, said chief minister Mr Naveen Patnaik while adding without being complacent one can say that the situation in neighbouring states is worse than Orissa.
Replying to a notice for adjournment on Left wing extremist-related violence at Deogarh and Koraput as well as two other murder cases at Keonjhar and Athgarh, the CM said 14 states were affected by the Left wing extremism. Reeling out figures he said during the current year, there were 31 instances of attacks by Naxalites in Orissa whereas in Chhattisgarh, the number of cases were 169 and in Jharkhand, it was 118.
Over the past seven years, the casualty figure in Orissa was 103 as against 941, 930 and 1867 in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh, he informed.
Denying the Opposition charge that the police were demoralised and unable to tackle the problem, Mr Patnaik claimed that his government had taken systemic steps to improve the efficiency of the police. Over 10,600 posts had been created and 4806 constables recruited. The India Reserve Battalion was formed and two more such battalions are to be established, he added.
He pointed out that the administration was getting the support of local people and the recent Maoist attack in Deogarh where they had killed three persons was because they were not getting support of the locals.
Countering the Opposition on failure in the socio-economic front , specially land related issues, the CM noted that a few days ago, he had gone to Rayagada and distributed 18,235 pattas to landless people which is the " highest in the country at one single function". "The police were concerned about the trip but it was so important that I decided to go and I am happy I did," he remarked.
It is not true that the government had failed to perform in the socio-economic front, stated the chief minister while noting that the growth rate during the 10th Plan period was higher than projections.
Earlier, he referred to the four particular instances and said on 21 June, Maoists entered Ranigola village and Telikusimi village of Deogarh district. They killed three persons suspecting their involvement in anti-Naxalite operations that had taken place in the village on 3 July last year when four hardcore Maoists had been killed. The Maoists had suffered amajor setback in the region due to two successfully anti-Naxalite operations last year in which seven Maoists had died, he said.
On the same day, Maoists attacked the Darliput railway station in Koraput district, he said. He also provided details of the other two criminal cases that had been registered at Athgarh of Cuttack district and Elkania in Keonjhar district.
Initiating the discussions, Congress leader Mr Narasingha Mishra had lambasted the government for its failure on the socio-economic front as a result of which the poor and tribals were taking to naxalism.
He decried that several key posts were lying vacant including those of DIG of two important range. Nothing has been done on land reforms and this government does not want to provide land to the landless, he alleged , caustically adding that the government was grabing land and displacing tribals . You will be digging your own grave if you take comfort by drawing comparisons with neighbouring states, he remarked.
Several other Congress leaders accused the government of complete failure on the law and order front and the socio-economic front. The treasury bench members led by Kalpataru Das countered referring to pro-poor measures taken by the government and the growth of left wing extremism in different states.
posted by Bimal 29.6.07,
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West Bengal Police policy opens red success door
28 June, 2007
Police policy opens red success door |
| RANJAN DASGUPTA |
| Ranchi, June 27: A faulty policy on police transfer has come as a boon for the Maoists to reap mileage from the two-day economic blockade, which ends midnight today. Central Coalfields Limited (CCL) could despatch only 17,500 tonnes of coal — against its usual 67,000 tonnes — by railways yesterday, the first day of the blockade. The sudden fall in the supply of coal was due to unavailability of wagons, said senior CCL officials, adding that it has hit the company and the state financially. The blockade crippled economic activities, especially in the transport sector. With businessmen having low confidence on the law enforcing agencies, they thought it prudent to withdraw trucks and other commercial vehicles. "If the rebels can murder a Lok Sabha member (Sunil Mahto) in broad daylight, can anyone rely on the government to protect our lives and properties?" asked a leading transporter. Some of the senior state police officers admitted that the fear factor has gripped the common people about the rebels. "To instil the confidence among the people the police machinery has to undertake operations against rebels on a continuous basis. But men in khaki are hardly visible in remote parts of districts that have become safe haven for the unofficial men in khaki — the rebels. They are punishing those who defy their diktat and the common masses do not have the courage to ignore agitation sponsored by the Naxalites," said a superintendent of police. Several police officers admitted that clearly there is a lack of motivation to inspire the jawans and the officials to take on the rebels fearlessly. "It is a fact that in our state, the authorities transfer police officers and jawans in Naxalite-hit districts and police stations as punishment for their alleged problem with the higher-ups. So will such staff give their cent per cent in battling the rebels?" questioned a senior police officer. In many rebel-hit states, the government makes it a point to depute its most efficient officer in districts that are hit by Naxalites. Manpower is another issue that is preventing the police from carrying out the anti-Naxalite operations. Take the case of the government railway police assigned to keep a tab on trains and stations. Against the sanctioned strength of 800, only 550 jawans are functioning and with this skeleton force, GRP has to provide escort parties in over 70 trains passing through the state. But deputy chief minister Sudhir Mahto refused to admit that the police had failed to tackle the issue. "The rebels adopt hit and run strategy. They do not have the courage to come to face to face with police. The government is serious in dealing with the problem." Meanwhile, Maoist area commander Teklal Mahto was arrested by Giridih police from Dwarpahri under Jamua police station. "He was wanted in eight cases of loot, murder and violence," said superintendent of police A.K. Singh. In Bokaro, two rebels — Rameshwar Gangu (40) and Dhaneshwar Mahto (32) — were arrested from Upper Ghat in Nawadih. Both were wanted in many cases. |
posted by Bimal 28.6.07,
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Maoist eye on target for 4 months
West bengal: railway station attack, Eye on target for 4 months | ||
| A STAFF REPORTER | ||
Calcutta, June 27: The plot to set Biramdih railway station on fire was hatched four months ago and the Chandil zonal action squad of the CPI (Maoist) was assigned the job, sources close to the Maoists told The Telegraph today. Sudip Chongdar, in charge of the squad, was, however, told not to kill any railway employee. The sources said Chongdar, in his mid-40s, picked 40-odd men from his squad for the task — said to be first of its kind in the state. They were from Bengal and Jharkhand. "We believe they slipped into Jharkhand by using the dense forest routes of the Dalma range," said an Intelligence Bureau official. The sources said the decision to set the station ablaze had been taken at the party congress held in February in a Jharkhand forest. More than 100 delegates from 16 states were present. "It was left on Chongdar, who is also a state committee member of the organisation, to select a station," the source said. "He chose Biramdih because it falls within the four areas — Bagmundi, Ayodhya, Saraikella and Chandil — where his squad operates." Intelligence officials believe Biramdih station's location made it an easy target. "It is flanked by two ranges of hills, Dalma and Ayodhya. This would make it easy for the rebels to get to the station undetected as well as escape to Jharkhand." According to information gathered by IB officials from villagers, Chongdar and his men had been spotted near the station for the past one month. But IB officials believe that Chongdar had taken the villagers into confidence. "That is why we had no prior information and no one tipped us off about the strike," said an official. | ||
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posted by Bimal 28.6.07,
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CPI( Maoist )karnataka press release on miss propaganda of state force.
Source : Received via email
Respectable editors and representatives of the media, struggle greetings.
We are sending our press release about the miss propaganda on com, Padma ,life partner of com,sende Rajamouli.central committe member and state secretary of karnataka. There were some news, regarding that in the media, particularly telugu .
Please consider to publish this release with due importance.
Yours in struggle,
Gangadhara
For the state committee
27-06-07 Cpi(maoist)
karnataka
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Com padma,life partner of sende Rajamouli is with the party contact. Ruling class's killer forces and enemies of the people are spreading ill fabricated stories. These are all to cover and divert their cowardice, fake encounter of com Sende Rajamouli.
As we already given press statement on 25th , he was caught at Kollum of kerala, while talking through public telephone near ksrtc there. Its number is 0474 2765303. He talked through that phone on 21st, at after noon 2 o clock with the one of our comrades. He ended his call abruptly with the sound like yeaha. Then he did not called any body. He had no work in AP at that time. He was not in charge of any area of AP. He was relieved from all responsibility there. He was serving only as Karnataka in charge and state secretary from last November.
We appeal all pro people organizations, human right organizations and individuals to defeat the ill intentional lies and miss propaganda of state forces.
We appeal to bring all actual facts before the public.
yours
Gangadhara
For the state committee
27-06-07 CPI (MAOIST)
Karnataka
posted by Bimal 28.6.07,
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Maoist movement unearthed in T. Nadu
Maoist movement unearthed in T. Nadu
Madurai, June. 28 (PTI): The investigation of three Tamil extremists, arrested on Monday in neighbouring Theni District, has revaled the presence of a Maoist group in Tamil Nadu with links to naxals in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh.
Initial investigation of the arrested, including two law college students, has found the existence of the new outift headquartered at Dharmapuri, which in the past witnessed naxalite activities, police said.
It was suspected that about 400 college students from various places across the state would have become the members of the movement, they said.
Based on information given by the three arrested, the police were now conducting raids at various places to arrest their leaders and other members.
The three extremists were arrested on June 25 after they were nabbed from a forest area in Periyakulam taluk of Theni district by residents of a nearby village. Some others, including two women, managed to escape. The group was armed with latest rifles and grenades.
The main objective of the movement was to rob the rich, corrupt officials and give the booty to the poor. According to initial investigation, the arms and explosives seized from them included grenades of high quality (make not known), pistols and some ammunitions.
The extremists had taken training in a clearing made in the Western Ghats and had come to Periyakulam for second phase of training. They had received funding from Maoist groups.
DIG Intelligence A.K.Viswanathan had visited the spot where the extremists were nabbed.
posted by Bimal 28.6.07,
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Karnataka: ‘Naxal supporter’ list to be reviewed
Special Correspondent
Naxal sympathisers is a more appropriate
phrase: Prakash
Bangalore: Home Minister M.P. Prakash said here on Wednesday said that the list of "naxalite supporters" released by the Police Department would be reviewed in the light of the fact that it includes names of progressive thinkers.
Speaking to presspersons on the sidelights of a function organised by the Karnataka State Police Sports Control Board, the Minister, however, said that the list was not prepared by the police with any "ulterior motives". "Naxal sympathisers" is a more appropriate phrase to use rather than "Naxal supporters" to describe some in the list, he added.
Asked about increasing police encounters in the city, he claimed that the number was lower than the encounters in some other major cities in the country.
posted by Bimal 28.6.07,
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No impact of Maoist blockade call in Andhra Pradesh
27 June, 2007
No impact of Maoist blockade call in Andhra Pradesh
The blockade called by Maoists in protest against the 'anti-people' policies of the government had no impact even in districts with a long history of Maoist violence.
Police said Maoists set afire a bus in Visakhaptanam district in coastal Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday to protest the killing of their leader S. Rajamouli in a gun battle last week. Delayed reports reaching the state capital said a group of 20 Maoists torched the bus of state-run Road Trasnport Corporation at R.V. Nagar in the district, about 650 km from here.
The Maoists also set afire records of forest development corporation and coffee board research centre in the same area. Barring these incidents, the state has not witnessed any Maoist violence since Tuesday.
However, police in Khammam district bordering Chhattisgarh, and Srikakulam, Vizianagaram and Visakhapatnam bordering Orissa remained on alert to foil any attack by the guerrillas.
Police officials said the blockade had no impact on normal life in the state because of their recent successes in firmly handling Maoists.
Police were already on alert amid reports that the Maoists, who suffered many setbacks in recent months, were trying to regroup. Fearing attacks on electricity plants during the blockade, the authorities had stepped up security.
Maoists lost many of their top leaders during last few months. Police on June 22 gunned down another top leader S. Rajamouli in Anantapur district bordering Karnataka.
Rajamouli was the mastermind behind the assassination attempt on then Andhra Pradesh chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu in October 2003. He was a prominent member of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) and was also heading the outfit in Karnataka.
Andhra Pradesh has been one of the strongholds of the Maoist movement.
More than 6,000 people have been killed in Maoist violence since 1969.
New kerala
posted by Bimal 27.6.07,
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Huge losses as Maoist 'economic blockade' ends
New Delhi, June 27 (IANS) A two-day 'economic blockade' called by Maoists in six states to protest special economic zones (SEZs) ended Wednesday on a violent note, causing losses of well over Rs.1.5 billion to the economy, officials said.
Although there were only a few incidents of violence, with a railway station torched in West Bengal, the protest crippled normal life in parts of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Bihar and West Bengal, proving the rebel clout in impoverished rural areas.
In West Bengal's Purulia district, about 50 guerrillas set fire to the Station Master's room at Biramdih railway station around 1.30 a.m. The attack destroyed the signalling system. Biramdih - on the Jharkhand-West Bengal border - is some 285 km from Kolkata.
'The (rebels) came and scared us away. We watched from a distance as they set the station on fire and fired gunshots in the air,' said Debasis Roy, a railway employee.
The Maoists shouted anti-government slogans and left behind leaflets and posters listing their demands. Three bombs were also found on railway tracks, a police officer said.
Train services between Bihar and Jharkhand, including the state capitals Patna and Ranchi, were cancelled. Normal life was disrupted in rural areas in four of Bihar's districts, officials and news reports said.
In Chhattisgarh, now the bloodiest battleground between the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) and security forces, rail and road traffic were badly hit in the southern Bastar region.
Public transport went off the roads and movement of iron ore from Dantewada district's Bailadila hills to Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh was halted, Girdhari Nayak, the inspector general of police (Maoist operation), told IANS.
Maoists blocked interior pockets of Bastar, Bijapur, Narayanpur, Dantewada and Kanker districts by placing wooden logs on the roads.
In Bihar, shops were closed and buses were off the roads in rural parts of Arwal, Jehanabad and Gaya districts as well as a few pockets in Patna district.
But the protest had no major impact in Andhra Pradesh and Orissa. A bus had been set on fire Tuesday in Andhra Pradesh, where the police have gunned down a string of Maoist leaders in recent times.
The blockade was an economic disaster, especially in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh.
In Jharkhand alone, official estimates put the losses at around Rs.1.5 billion, spread over two days.
The railways have reportedly lost Rs.300 million due to cancellation of goods and passenger trains. At many places the Maoists destroyed railway property. In Latehar district, they burnt two engines and damaged 12 goods train bogies.
Around 1,500 buses did not ply during these two days, causing a loss of Rs.15 million. Trucks stood idle, leading to a loss of Rs.30 million.
The economic blockade also disrupted coal and iron ore production and transport, leading to losses of around Rs.600 million.
Businesses in the state have also been derailed by the blockade. The import and export business has been frozen for the two days causing losses of around Rs.500 million to traders, said a member of the Jharkhand Chamber of Commerce.
In Jharkhand, for the second day, rail and road traffic came to a complete halt. In rural areas, schools as well as colleges remained closed. Ranchi University has postponed examinations for postgraduate courses.
The CPI-Maoist called for the blockade to denounce SEZs. The party said SEZs were coming up on land taken away from farmers and being given away to industry at throwaway prices.
The police in West Bengal hunted for the attackers of the railway station, according to Inspector General of Police Jogesh Chattopadhayay. Meanwhile, shopkeepers kept their shops shut in the state's Purulia, Bankura and West Midnapore districts.
Most of Left-ruled West Bengal was, however, unaffected by the blockade.
Orissa police chief Amarananda Patnaik told IANS Wednesday: 'There is absolutely no incident. Everything is peaceful and normal today.'
Thousands have been killed in India since the Maoist rebellion began in 1967 in a village in West Bengal. The Maoists are now active in many states.
posted by Bimal 27.6.07,
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Student attacked by CPIM goons
Student booked for Maoist 'link'
Statesman News Service
DURGAPUR, June 26: Three of the five students of United Students Democratic Front who were detained by Katwa police last evening were released after preliminary questioning. Though Lokeshweri Dasgupta, second year history student at Jadavpur University, Priyonkar Dey of JU and Supriyo Sur of Presidency College were released, Jaladhar Mahato was arrested for his suspected links with Maoists.
Police said that Jaladhar might have links with the Lalgarh squad of the Maoists in West Midnapore and his name had figured during investigations following two Maoist strikes in Belpahari in 2005. The other three students were released after police did not find any links with them and the Maoists. However, police are yet to question Ashim as his condition is not stable and is currently admitted at a local hospital with critical head injuries. All the five were taken to the Katwa police station yesterday following a squabble at a village about six km from Katwa town. Around 5:30 p.m. yesterday, the students were attacked by a group of CPI-M activists when they were seen taking measurement near the proposed thermal power super-project at Srikhand village. The villagers beat up the entire five-member group.
posted by Bimal 27.6.07,
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Maoist blockade success in Chhattisgarh
Agencies
Raipur, June 26: Normal life was disrupted today in Naxal-infested areas of Chhattisgarh on the first day of a 48- hour economic blockade called by Maoists to protest against Special Economic Zones and the economic policies of the Central and state governments.
"The impact of the economic blockade could be witnessed in many parts of the state, spread across the three regions of Bastar, Sarguja and Raipur. However, no incident has been reported so far from any part of the state," a source in the police headquarters said here.
Reports reaching here said both train and road traffic were disrupted in many parts of the state due to the blockade.
Transportation of iron ore from Bailadila continued to be affected today as railway lines were damaged by Naxalites in Dantewada district yesterday. Passenger trains were also cancelled in the Bastar region today, police said.
Bijapur was hit by a blackout for the third consecutive day today after Maoists destroyed two electricity towers in landmine blasts on Sunday night. To enforce the blockade, Maoists also felled trees to disrupt road communications in many places.
Vehicles stayed off the roads in many places as the rebels had targeted passenger buses in Bastar and Sarguja regions during their last protest, police said. Maoists kept schools and weekly markets out of the purview of the blockade.
The Maoists blew up the two towers in the Bhairamgarh jungle, about 550 km from the state capital, plunging the whole of Bijapur district into darkness since Sunday night. Officials said repair work was now underway.
Rail services hit
Maoists blew up railway tracks in Latehar, causing a freight train to derail, as the 48-hour economic blockade called by them paralysed rail traffic and affected life in Naxal strongholds in Jharkhand today.
Maoists used dynamite to blast the tracks, leading to derailment of 22 wagons and the engine of a freight train between Chetar and Richuguta stations last night, senior public relations officer Amerandra Das said.
Another length of track was blasted between Mangra halt and Barwadih near Latehar, he said. Maoists also dragged a truck onto a level crossing on the Grand Chord line near Parasanth Outer last night. Police later removed the truck, Das said. Train services were badly affected between Gomo-Barkakana and Garwah Road and Barkakana, railways officials said.
Railway authorities had yesterday cancelled all passenger trains on the Gomo-Barkakana route and the Palamau Express on the CIC section in Dhanbad. Though police were on patrol, long distance buses stayed off the roads.
posted by Bimal 27.6.07,
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Maoists dispute police claim
26 June, 2007
K. Srinivas Reddy
HYDERABAD: Maoists have disputed the Andhra Pradesh police claim that top naxal leader Sande Rajamouli was shot dead in an encounter at Dharmavaram town of Anantapur district.
A statement from Gangadhara, Maoist spokesman for Karnataka, said Rajamouli was in fact arrested near a bus stand in Kollam in Kerala on Friday at 2 p.m. when he was talking to a party leader over phone and killed later.
Rajamouli left Bangalore at 8 p.m. on Wednesday night, the statement said.
Mr. Gangadhara said Rajamouli, a central committee member, was appointed Karnataka secretary in November 2005 following a split in the ranks. This happened after the fifth State conference in 2005-2006.
Demanding action against the police officers responsible for the killing, Mr. Gangadhara said the murder was a great loss to the Indian revolution and, Karnataka in particular.
posted by Bimal 26.6.07,
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Baster: Strangers in their own land
Book Review
JYOTIRMAYA SHARMA
| A complex and nuanced story of the 'adivasis' of Bastar being displaced in the name of development |
SUBALTERNS AND SOVEREIGNS — An Anthropological History of Bastar (1854-2006): Nandini Sundar; Oxford University Press, YMCA Library Building, Jai Singh Road, New Delhi-110001. Rs. 650.
This is not merely an anthropological history of Bastar, as the subtitle of this very important book suggests, but also an exploration on the part of the author of the normative universe that will eventually determine the increasingly fragile idea of Indian democracy and its institutions. It tells a very complex and nuanced story of the 'adivasis' of Bastar being displaced by centralised models of "development", losing, in turn, their rights over la nd, water and forests.
While the conclusion in the book ends on a cautiously optimistic note, hoping for a better future for the 'adivasis' of Bastar, a people who have become strangers in their own land, the afterword is a testimony to the cruel shattering of this optimism. It tells the story of the anti-Naxalite counterinsurgency operation in Bastar called Salwa Judum. Termed by the Chhattisgarh Government variously as a "spontaneous", "self-initiated", "people's movement" and a "peace campaign", it literally means a "purification hunt". It has taken the form of a state-sponsored drive against Naxals, but in truth, it has emptied villages, left houses burnt and displaced nearly a million people. It is also a story of indiscriminate arson, looting and rape by young vigilantes with the active involvement of security forces and politicians.
Complex picture
What is significant is that the complex picture involving an increasingly centralised state and resistance to its arbitrary power in the guise of democracy does not escape the attention of Nandini Sundar's narrative. She says: "Young men armed by the government wield their guns with new-found machismo, excited when they find and kill some 'dreaded Maoist' who is often a former neighbour or even a relative, but are deeply nervous at the demons they have unleashed within. And in the jungles, the Maoists carry out military exercises, defending some imagined 'guerilla zone'. In an ironic twist orchestrated by the Indian state, young Naga and Mizo reservists, whose collective historical memories include the burning and regrouping of their own villages a few decades earlier, burn adivasi villages and rape women with impunity." The press too reports Naxal violence enthusiastically, while exhibiting an uncharacteristic coyness towards writing about state-sponsored violence. In the end, the 'adivasis' are caught between the Naxalites and the Salwa Judum, both imitating the criminality of the other.
Story of Bastar
The book is a very skilful coming together of anthropology and history. It exhaustively chronicles the story of Bastar from the time colonial administrative structures sought to impose "order" and "civilisation" on the 'adivasis' by imposing colonial prejudices and stereotypes to the present time when state-sponsored private vigilantism in the name of countering the Maoist movement threatens to wreck an entire way of life. It also details the way in which the 'adivasis' have resisted the colonial state in the past and a repressive state now.
But Sundar's study is not an attempt to romanticise either the 'adivasis' or their history as one of "undiluted innocence or even heroism." She is clear that "resistance cannot be produced on demand to be participated in or written about, but that it is always there as actuality and potential in the everyday structures of life…" Therefore, even for the 'adivasis', "everyday life is thus conducted through a mixture of active collusion, compromise or call it innovative fusion, resignation or call it avoidance…"
Erosion of a way of life
The centrality of her thesis is that despite the steady erosion of the 'adivasi' way of life, despite the increasing insouciance of the modern Indian state towards the needs of the 'adivasis' of Bastar, and despite the predatory inroads of the modern market economy into the forests of Bastar in the name of "development", there is no singular model by which we can comprehend the complexity of choices and the modes of resistance that the 'adivasis' employ, much less impose a monochromatic paradigm on their choices. This is how the author articulates this very significant point: "[T]here is no unitary insurgent consciousness that we can capture, rooted in 'culture'. In the process of individuals making collective choices of whom to support, what culture to adopt, when to rebel and when not to rebel — whether to organise under a 'traditional' system, whether to support a king or the communists, whether to represent themselves as indigenous people or both, culture is redefined, sometimes in old and sometimes in new terms. These are not entirely free or conscious choices, but they are choices nonetheless."
Sundar's book on Bastar, therefore, is a masterly narrative of the increasing failure of the Indian state to sustain democracy and provide governance. It ought to be read as a note of caution by all democrats, but also can be read for the restrained fluidity of the writing and the subterranean black humour that often is seen in its pages. An instance of the latter is K.P.S. Gill describing Salwa Judum as a real Gandhian movement.
posted by Bimal 26.6.07,
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Police stations in naxal areas to be fortified
posted by Bimal 26.6.07,
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West Bengal: RYL attack on railway tram, protest against industrialization
Naxal act a crime: Cops - 1 HELD FOR TRAM ATTACK |
| A STAFF REPORTER |
| A youth, said to be a member of a Naxalite outfit, has been arrested on charges of setting fire to a tram on College Street on Sunday night. Bhola Dutta, in his early-30s, was picked up from his Muraripukur Road home on Monday. Police said he is a member of the Revolutionary Youth League (RYL), known to be sympathetic to the CPI (Maoist). Sunday's incident marked the first attack on government property by Naxalites in Calcutta since the Seventies. In February, the window-panes of Lexus Motors, on AJC Bose Road, were smashed by a group of Jadavpur University students who were reportedly members of a Naxalite group. Three of them were arrested. An RYL spokesman said "last night's incident was a symbol of our protest against the state government's atrocities in the name of industrialisation", but the police dubbed it a "criminal" act. "We are not ready to accept the RYL's claim that setting ablaze the tram was part of their political movement. The incident was a criminal act and the accused will be treated accordingly," said Pradip Chatterjee, deputy commissioner of police (headquarters). Dutta, who runs a small business, has been charged with damaging government property and indulging in criminal conspiracy. Chatterjee said all those present with Dutta have been identified. "We will arrest them soon." A group of five intercepted the tram heading towards Belgachhia at the crossing of Mahatma Gandhi Road and College Street. "After the driver and the passengers in the first-class coach were forced to get off, the youth sprinkled kerosene on the footboard and threw a burning matchstick," said an officer of Bowbazar thana. On seeing a police jeep, the youths fled, leaving behind handwritten leaflets. "The fire was doused immediately and the tram taken to the depot," said the officer. The RYL spokesman asserted that such incidents would recur if the government did not adopt "a people-friendly industrialisation policy". |
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CPI(Maoist) Statement regarding the fake encounter killing of com Sandre Rajamouli
25 June, 2007
source:via email
Respectable editors and representatives of the media , struggle greetings to you.This is our press ralease regarding murder of our beloved com Rajamouli ,central commitee member and our state secretary by the ruling class goons of andhra police.
yours in struggle,
Gangadhara 24-06-07
for the state committee
CPI (MAOIST)
Karnataka
Comrade Raja mouli alias Naveen, central committee member and karnataka state committee secretary was cought at Kollom of kerala state on 22nd, at 2 o' clock after noon, by the ruling class goons of andhra special police. At that time he was talking through phone, numbered 0474 2765303; may be at Kollum ksrtc bus stand, with the one of our comrades of karnataka.They tortured him severely and murdered with out caring any so called legal rules and norms. Then concocted, as usual, general story of encounter . He started from Bangalore on 20 th june at night 8.o clock . Whatever informations giving by the killer police officials about encounter is utterly false.These ruling class criminals are acting as mafia gangs, operating for money,posing as protecters of people,cheating civil society,doing all anti social activities and protects anti socials. Rajashekara reddy government of Andhra pradesh killed our comrade by throwing away all rules and norms that it has to be followed and protected.
Com Rajamouli was simple and mingling person. He took the responsibility of karnataka from november 2005. He was active and enthusiastic, had a good military knowledge, he delivered it to others also.He tried to know karnataka and guided as a secretary for more than one and half years He actively participated and led the successful struggle against right opportunist line,which came forward in the karnataka party during the 5th state conference ( 2005-2006.)
He was a relentless fighter in the miltary field and in the political feild. He contributed by bringing important political questions for discussions in recently concluded unity congress of the party. He spent his most of the life for serving the people and party.
His martyrdom is great loss to all India movement and karnataka particularly. People and party lost great revolutionary leader and military teacher. We are sharing all sorrows and griefs of his family and people. We saluting his parents for their contribution to indian revolution, by giving great leader to the people.
Revolutionary move ment can not be stopped by these type of heinous crimes on humanity by the ruling classes. Revolution is naturally growing phenamena reactionaries are naturally dying phenamena of this coercive exploitative world.Leadership and leaders were emerges and emerging from people's struggle.People's struggle can not be stopped without stopping exploitation.Revolution can not be stopped without bringing non exploitative egalitarian society.
Rajashekara reddy government will have to pay proper price for this murder.
* We strongly condemns this heinous murder of our beloved com Sendhe Rajamouli.
* We are pressing strongly to bring all murderers under punishment.
* We are requesting human rights organizations and activists to bring all facts of this state murder before the the people
* We appeal all people , democrats ,pro people organizations and progressives to condemn this murder and fight against this fascist rulers and their goons in uniform.
With revolutionary greetings
Yours in struggle,
Gangadhara 24-06-07
for the state committee
CPI (MAOIST)
Karnataka
posted by Bimal 25.6.07,
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CPI(Maoist) Central Committee member, Sande Rajamouli killed
24 June, 2007
Maoist mastermind falls to cop bullets | ||
| G.S. RADHAKRISHNA | ||
Hyderabad, June 23: CPI (Maoist) second-in-command Sande Rajamouli, the man who had nearly succeeded in killing former chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, fell to police bullets last night in the latest blow to the rebels in insurgency-hit Andhra Pradesh. The 47-year-old Naxalite leader had 120 cases against him in Chhattisgarh, Andhra and Orissa; was on the wanted list in seven other states and had a cash reward of Rs 16 lakh on his head. Rajamouli, also known as Prasad, headed the group's operations in Karnataka and was said to be the No. 2 in the CPI (Maoist) hierarchy after national secretary Muppala Lakshman Rao (Ganapati). The encounter also claimed a woman guard of the Maoist leader while another rebel escaped under cover of darkness. Andhra police said the exchange of fire took place near the Dharmavaram railway station in Anantapur district. "They kept running and fired at the police who retaliated, killing Prasad on the spot," said district police chief Stephen Ravindra. "The woman rebel died in hospital later. Another injured Maoist escaped," Ravindra added. Rajamouli, who was also a member of the central military commission of the rebel outfit, had masterminded the October 1, 2003, landmine explosions that nearly killed Naidu while the Telugu Desam boss, then the chief minister, was on his way to the Balaji temple near Tirupati. The blasts had ripped apart Naidu's bullet-proof vehicle but he escaped with fractures to his left collarbone and wrist. Rajamouli's death is the latest in a series of setbacks the CPI (Maoist) has suffered in Andhra, where Maoist violence has claimed more than 7,500 lives since 1969. The outfit, which has lost several leaders, including its top boss in the state, last year, had brought the Karimnagar native back to Andhra to regain control of former strongholds like the Nallamala forests. Early on Friday, Maoists also struck on the Andhra-Orissa border, blasting the engine of a goods train that ferries iron ore to Visakhapatnam. The rebels, however, failed to blast the railway station though they asked all the employees to vacate the premises. Police sources said the late-night attack has disrupted movement of iron ore. |
posted by Bimal 24.6.07,
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CPI(Maoist) press release on posters released by Karnataka state Govt against them
Respectable editors and all representatives of the media. Struggle greetings to you.We are sending this press release on posters released by state police against us. Requesting to favour this for the publication.
Yours in struggle,
Gangadhara
For the state committee
CPI (Maoist)
23-06-07 karnataka
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Police department has released posters containing photos of our comrades as most wanted ones and fixed one lakh rupees on each. They projected all these most social concerned persons as anti social criminals. But actually the fact is that police officials are the most criminal, anti people elements, murderers. Shankar Bidari is one of them, who ruined the life of the people of Chamaraja nagara, Kollegala, Mysore area. In the name of anti Veerappan operation he did such a brutal and uncivilized violence on common people.Many women and girls were gangraped,molested,and murdered.people's property looted and foisted several false cases, by thisshankara bidari and his men. This was also revealed by Justice Sadashiva commission's enguiry. But no action was taken by the any ruling governments. That same bloodthirsty man, continuing these anti people activities, in the same manner. Ruling classes and their parties are indulging waves of crimes on people and country. For maintaining thier exploitation,loot,compradorship to imperialists, these cruel forces and it's masters are playing this threatening game with the thought of preventing people from struggle for their life and society. Never, impossible, peoples's struggle can not be stopped by any force. revolutionary movement can not be suppressed by these dirty and cruel acts on humanity. History proved it .People will broke all barriers and chains of exploitation.
The Janatha Dal and BJP coalition government is preparing to unleash terror on struggling people. On the one hand they are imposing false cases, arresting, encountering etc and on the other, they are including pro people's organizations pro people individuals and democrats in the list like criminals,to stop their voice.
This is nothing but preparing the ground for ruthless offensive on people. This is total violation of so called democratic rules and principles and the real intention is to implement fascist rules. By that they are trying to make favourable atmosphere for forth coming anti people projects, which results displacements of the people and losing of land ,such as national parks, reserve forests, BT parks, water and power projects, road projects etc.
These are all part of suppression of people's movements all over India. In nandigram of west Bengal, hundreds of people butchered by CPI (M) led government. In orissa, chattisghad,jharkhand, bihar, Andhra pradesh and else where, state and central governments unleashing ruthless terror on people. Kidnappings, gang rapes, fake encounters, arsons etc are become common.
Karnataka government is having coordination with central joint operational command (JOC), which is formed particularly for suppressing our movement.
Government is not showing any concern for agitating people of the land and their burning problems.They only trying to ruin people and land. Is these governments are by the people, to the people and for the people.? they are by the ruling class,to the ruling class and for the ruling class i,e big land lords,comprador buerocratic capitalists.That,s why people have only way, struggle and war.
We strongly condemn these anti people acts of government and it's forces We are demanding to withdrawal of those posters, photos, rewards and lists with immediate effect Immediately withdraw listing of pro people organizations and individuals as anti people ones. We appeal all freedom loving people, democrats, progressives, and intellectuals to condemn these anti people activities of government and it's forces, wage relent less struggle for right to organize and be organized, right to live, right to speak and right to fight.
yours,
Gangadhara
For the state committee
CPI (MAOIST)
KARNATAKA
posted by Bimal 24.6.07,
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CPI(Maoist) Central Committee member, Sande Rajamouli killed
K. Srinivas Reddy
HYDERABAD: Two days after the Maoist threatened to step up attacks against politicians in Andhra Pradesh, the State police inflicted a stunning blow to the Maoist movement by killing its Central Committee member, Sande Rajamouli, in an alleged encounter in Anantapur district, bordering Karnataka, on Friday night.
Rajamouli, a senior cadre who was also a member of the Central Military Commission, was stated to be the brain behind the abortive 'Alipiri attack' on N. Chandrababu Naidu.
Incidentally, he is the second CMC member to be killed in Andhra Pradesh in recent times. Earlier, Wadkapur Chandramouli, a CMC member, was killed in Visakhapatnam Agency area this year.
Rajamouli's killing in front of the railway station in Dharmavaram town of Anantapur is bound to generate criticism within the Maoist ranks in view of his top stature. The point of discussion among the Maoists could be on how a member of the Central Committee and CMC moved without proper protection into Andhra Pradesh where the Maoists have officially announced their retreat in the wake of severe and continuous police onslaught. Incidentally, both the slain CMC members, Rajamouli and Chandramouli, hail from Karimnagar district.
Maoist party secretary Muppalla Laxman Rao alias Ganapathi is also from the same district. Rajamouli's wife Rajitha, who was the District Committee Secretary of Karimnagar, was also killed in an encounter.
posted by Bimal 24.6.07,
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Center alert on Maoist attack during the proposed economic blockade
NEW DELHI: With Special Economic Zones (SEZs) and other development projects being on Maoists' hit-list across the country, the Centre has warned states to gear up their machinery to check the Red ultras' onslaught during their proposed two-day "economic blockade" from June 26.
The Union home ministry has sent special instructions to states, including Haryana and Punjab, asking them for better coordination among the police, civil supplies department, state electricity board, railways and Border Road Organisation (BRO) as the security agencies fear major naxal attacks on infrastructure projects during the proposed blockade.
Officials here believe that the blockade has been planned by the CPI (Maoists) to oppose the formation of SEZs. Though the security agencies have so far not come across any statement of the Red ultras' Central Committee announcing the blockade, a number of posters have been seized from the border areas of Jharkhand, Orissa, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal indicating the naxals' plan not only in these states but also in Haryana and Punjab where their presence is not significant.
Referring to the Maoists' recent ninth congress, held in the forests bordering Jharkhand and Orissa, a senior home ministry official said the naxals had tried to justify their opposition to SEZs terming the very concept of economic zone as a modern version of the old 'zamindari' system. The minutes of the meeting are available with the home ministry. They show the Maoists' plan to arm locals where SEZs are proposed. They have also planned and subsequently worked on it to transform their current 'guerilla' units into 'mobile wings' which can strike in various parts of the country and then disappear. These units had, in fact, also looked for new recruits among debt-ridden farmers in Maharashtra and Punjab during the last three months.
"Maoists have already been trying to focus on people who have either lost their land or are on the verge of losing it to SEZs and other developmental projects. Since it is an emotive issue, people who lost their land would certainly listen to the Red ultras in these areas," said the official.
Taking note of the Maoists' strategy — which may be experimented by them as a 'test drive' during their proposed "economic blockade" — the official said that special attention would be paid to areas where a number of development projects were being taken up by both private and public sector companies as the ultras had identified them as their "targets" during their ninth congress.
According to the Maoists' final report, the projects, which the naxals identified as on their hit-list, also included the bauxite mining project of the Jindals in Visakhapatnam, the Polavaram irrigation project, steel plants proposed by Tatas, Essar and Jindals in Chhattisgarh, the Centre's proposed railway line in the Rajhara-Raighat-Jagdalpur sector, Posco's steel plants (under construction) in Orissa, power plants proposed by Reliance in Uttar Pradesh and the Kosi irrigation project in northern Bihar.
Timesofindia
posted by Bimal 24.6.07,
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Naxal leaders regrouping in Nagpur
NAGPUR: After some turbulence caused by the arrest of four naxals near Deekshabhoomi on May 8, Maoist leaders and front organisations in the region are reportedly re-grouping in Nagpur. Sources told TOI that after Nagpur police arrested Arun Ferriera, Mahesh alias Murli alias Ashok Satya Reddy, Dhanendra Burle and Naresh Bansod, there were some waves of protest.
However, only Ferriera's arrest created a significant impact. "Front organisations and sympathisers projected Ferriera as an activist and not a Maoist. Ferriera's Mumbai-based wife Jennifer was instrumental in this and she even went to national media to prove his reported innocence,'' said the source.
Meanwhile, a naxal-backed 'fact-finding committee' was also formed in yet another effort to prove the 'innocence' of Ferriera and others. Now, Nagpur police have reportedly learnt that top leaders of Maoists, their sympathisers and other front organisations have started regrouping in Nagpur. "Their so-called fact-finding committee has become active in recent times. They are holding meetings, preparing documents and gathering support to keep the issue on the boil. They want to exonerate Ferriera at all costs,'' said the source.
Another issue cropping up often in the meetings is the 'failure' of the Nagpur police to find clinching evidence in the narco test of Ferriera and Murli. "This so-called failure of Nagpur police is being highlighted repeatedly in the meetings reportedly to form a negative sentiment,'' the source added.
Meanwhile, there was reportedly a large presence of naxal sympathisers at the hearing of the four arrested naxals here on Thursday. "They were also trying to contact the media and may have intended to influence them,'' the source said.
timesnagpur@timesgroup.com
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