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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | First Delhi warning to new govt on Maoists by Pronob Mondal

First Delhi warning to new govt on Maoists by Pronob Mondal

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published Published on Sep 12, 2011   modified Modified on Sep 12, 2011

The Union home ministry has warned the state government on the Maoist threat, asking it not to go easy on the rebels who have been tightening their grip on strongholds in Jungle Mahal.

A senior police officer said this was the ministry’s first warning to the new government on the Maoist menace since it took charge in May.

“Over the past three months, we have had letters from the Union home ministry seeking information about the Maoists. But this is the first time that we have been warned,” said a home department source.

The ministry, in a letter addressed to state home secretary G.D. Gautama, cautioned the state government, saying turnouts at two recent meetings in Jungle Mahal, including the Lalgarh rally on August 31 which the guerrillas attended, were indicative of how the outfit has taken local people into confidence. The letter reached Writers’ Buildings on September 6.

The letter (No. 2/18015/15/2011-NM/ANO-1) by Sunil Kumar, the director of the Union home ministry’s Naxalite Management Division (NMD), said the rebels had been fanning resentment among villagers by citing Mamata Banerjee’s two “unfulfilled promises” — withdrawal of central forces from Jungle Mahal and release of political prisoners.

A police officer dealing with anti-Maoist operations said: “The NMD warned us, saying the activists of Bengal’s ruling party might become targets of Maoists in the near future. It added that the rebels are telling villagers that in the future Trinamul activists would attack the poor like the CPM’s armed cadres had done.”

The NMD cited the alleged murder of Trinamul activist Rabindranath Mishra at Dhangri village, 15km from Jhargram town, on August 24 by suspected Maoists as an example.

Another officer said: “Under guidance of the Trinamul activists, villagers have set up armed Jana Jagaran Manchas to combat the rebels. The slain Trinamul worker had helped in set up an unit of Jana Jagaran Mancha in Dhangri.”

The NMD was formed in 2006 to deal with the Naxalite menace. It monitors the situation and counter-measures being taken by the affected states.

The letter said the two meetings organised by Maoist-backed organisations, one at Lalgarh on August 31 and another at Belpahari on August 26, indicated that the rebels had been gaining ground in Jungle Mahal.

“The letter said there were a number of Maoist guerrillas who were present at both meetings and most speakers had echoed Maoist demands in their speeches,” said a source in the state home department.

At the Lalgarh rally, where nearly 10,000 villagers had gathered, speakers had criticised Mamata for not keeping her two promises.

The Union home ministry had earlier written to the state home department asking for information about deaths in Jungle Mahal since May. “We were also asked to collect information about the number of youth who were recruited by Maoists in their armed forces in the past three months,” the home department source said.

The senior police officer said the Maoists had managed to regain their foothold in Jungle Mahal in the past three months because of a lull in police operations.

The Telegraph, 12 September, 2011, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110912/jsp/bengal/story_14496273.jsp


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