-The Economic Times The youth wing of the Trinamool Congress will hold a huge rally in the Maoist stronghold of Belpahari in West Midnapore district on November 1. This will be the first meeting of a political party in Belpahari. "I am expecting a gathering of about one lakh in our rally in the so-called Maoist heartland," Youth Trinamool Congress General Secretary Suvendu Adhikari told ET on Tuesday. He alleged that...
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Good Maoist vs bad Maoist
-The Telegraph Mamata Banerjee today talked of “good” and “bad” Maoists, the differentiation said to be part of a strategy to drive a wedge in the rebel camp. “Not all Maoists are bad. Some are doing good work. One section, however, does not believe in democracy. They indulge in violence and bloodbath,” she told journalists on the sidelines of the National Development Council meeting at Vigyan Bhavan. Mamata’s differentiation came on the day...
More »Oh, It Happens by Neelabh Mishra
Police officers of Chhattisgarh would have us believe that people fall inside bathrooms at police stations deliberately to break their own heads or backs and later blame it on custodial torture. They say that’s what happened with Soni Sori, an ashramshala teacher from Jabeli village in the Maoist-affected Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh, on October 10. In pain, drifting in and out of consciousness, benumbed by the ‘good cop, bad cop’...
More »WB governor dubs Mamata's 7-day deadline to Maoists as "generous offer" by Amitava Banerjee
Former special advisor for Internal Security to the Prime Minister and present governor of West Bengal Mayankote Kelath Narayanan dubbed chief minister Mamata Banerjee's seven day deadline to the Maoist to lay down arms as a "generous offer." On arrival in Darjeeling on Monday, Narayanan, talking to the media stated, "This is the part of the strategy to get the Maoists to the table. The CM's earlier peace proposal seems to...
More »Security forces, Maoists exchange fire in Paschim Medinipur district by Ananya Dutta
Amid a deadline set by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to Maoists to disarm themselves and come for negotiations, there was an exchange of fire on Tuesday between security forces and left wing extremists at a village in the Bankisol-Aluberia area in Paschim Medinipur district. There were reports that Akash, secretary of the State committee of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), was among those who escaped. “We received a tip-off...
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