Open challenge to Govt’s authority

The dastardly killing of 25 personnel in West Bengal by Maoists is highly condemnable and no democratic republic will ever tolerate at any cost. But it also an challenge to Govt's police machinery. This dastardly attack also exposed weakness and lack of determination in government to deal with Maoists sternly. Though this is not the first time that Maoists have killed police personnel in West Bengal, Jharkhand, Orissa , Chatthisgarh and other naxal-affected states in the country, the governments have always failed to stop their wanton killings. The CPI (Maoist) is a banned organisation but it carries muderous act with impunity without any check from the government side. The killing of 25 policemen and looting of their arms in West Bengal not only point towards failure of the government but it is its complete failure, which is also apparent. The Maoists’ killing act was carried out in daylight but it was the helpness and ill-training of the police personnel that they fail miserably to counter them successfully. The police personnel and police stations all over the country is ill-quipped to fight Maoist menace. Maoists are eqipped with more sophisticated weapons to strike terror among the policemen. Their main motive is also of striking fear among the people by attacking the police stations in their areas of influence. They have become a great internal threat to the country. It has been often seen that the growth of naxalism is very fast in poorly-developed areas in the state. The state government alllocation of money for the development of tribal areas is gulped by Maoist leaders in connivance with corrupt government officials. Maoist leadership is financially well off because the government money alloted for the development in their areas goes into their pockets. So, there is no financial constraint carry out their anti-national acts. Maoists want to grab power at gun point and if the government continued to shirk from taking stringent steps to halt their onslaught, the day is not far off when they would run their writ large in all the naxal-affected states in the country. More than half of the country is in the grip of naxal violence. The situation urgently demands first on the government to deal with the banned organisation and to not put forth the view that if it took to stringent measures the tribal population in the country will feel alienated because Maoism is most active in tribal areas. This point of view is generally given by the government only for the sake of vote bank politics. The government must cast off complacency and crush Maoist violence first, then they measres for the uplift of tribal in the Maoist dominated areas.