Naxal, Aadivasi and Maoist

Naxal was a movement started by Kanu Sanyal, Charu Mazumdar and Santhal in a West Bengal’s village, Naxalbari in 1967. It was started against the oppression and exploitation done by the Zamindars to poor farmers and downtrodden sections of society. While Maoist organizations mainly draw upon Mao's ideology of the People's War, mobilizing large parts of rural populations to revolt against established institutions by engaging in guerrilla warfare. They proclaim to be the well wishers and care taker of downtrodden and peasantry class, which is totally different from reality in today’s scenario.

On 27^th of May, 2013 a group of nearly 1000 Maoists attacked the convoy of

Congress leaders who were taking out a “Parivartan” Yatra in Darbha valley of Chhattisgarh, in which nearly 28 persons were killed including state topmost leaders.

The issue has become much debated in public arena as it was for the first time that any VVIPs or political class were targeted, after attack on Chandra Babu Naidu, the then Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh in 2003. As a law abiding citizen of this country it hurt when I got to hear that there are some pseudo human rights activists, who in the name of tribal welfare show sympathy with Maoists. There is not a single activist who has come forward and condemned the brutal, cowardice and dastardly killings of Indian nationals.  

Even Prime Minister Manmohan Singh admitted that Maoists menace has become

a national issue and is a threat to supremacy of democratic institutions. But a question arises here that how will he deal with it? What measures will he take? If he starts countering them then there are human rights organizations with lots of supporters, who will restrict him to go further with such measures. There are two things which the government of India and state government need to do with urgency, first shut down the flaring mouth of pseudo activists and social workers, secondly, take a tough political stand on the issue with a motive to “end Maoism” with developmental works.