Monday, October 5, 2009

Naxalism is a grave internal security threat

Both Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister P Chidambaram have said that Naxalites are internal security threat to the country. The question here arises when the country's leadership is convinced about Naxal menace, which is posing grave internal security, why are they complacent in taking concrete step to combat Maoists in right earnest? It is no secret also that out-lawed CPI(Maoist) enjoys political support in states and that holds the police personnel to launch drive against Naxals to stop their slaughtering of innocent persons.London educated Maoist leader Cobad Gandy has been recently arrested in Delhi. He has international network and incharge of Maoist propaganda. He says that they are fighting against state terrorism, but he forgets that killings of Children aged between 10 to 15 neither have any justification in any way nor can they help them achieve their goal. The rising naxal violence is more dangerous than the threat of terrorism from cross border that India has been facing for the last two decades. Primarily, the terrorism has taken root in Jammu and Kashmir and all the seven north-eastern states of the country, while at least 15 states have been hit hard by outlawed CPI(Maoist). The senseless killings of 16 innocent villagers in a village of Khagaria District in Bihar by armed Maoists can in no terms be justified. The land dispute between the Mussahar caste among Mahadalits and Kurmi caste among Other Backward Castes (OBCs) has reportedly been the cause of brutal massacre of 16 innocent persons, including two children aged between 10 to 15. The killing of the children by Maoists shows that they have nothing to do with the social upliftment of the downtrodden and with the state. Maoists perception that they are fighting against state terrorism is nothing but an eyewash. They follow the Chinese Communist stalwart Mao Zedong's belief that power flows from the barrel of the gun but they have forgetten that they are now living in 21 first century where there is nothing like barrier which the people can not not cross.Now, the power flows from the knowledge and economic prosperity. Maoists are criminals and they deserve to be treated as such. In 2009, 700 innocent people, including children and women have been killed. Maoists' strike in Rajnandangaon of Chattoishgarh killed 33 constables, including an IPS officer . The killing of police personnel and the innocent people by Naxalites can never be justified for fulfilment of their goal. There is no doubt that wide economic disparity among different sections of society exist but it can not give any one permission to take up arms against the state and allow anyone to rise in rebellion against it.The Centre must compel by being tough with Maoists to understand that until and unless they join mainstream of the national activities and pledge faith in democratic process of the country, they can not get their aspirations fulfilled. The government of India must not take the naxal violence at any stage merely a problem of law and order and state should be left on its own to deal with them. It must first call all party meeting and evolve consensus over how to fight out Maoist menace and provide all possible help to thse naxal-affected states.

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