The country will be Naxal-free by March 31, 2026: Amit Shah

 Four new battalions of over 4,000 personnel in the Bastar region

New Delhi: 8th September 2024: (The Naxalbari Screen Desk):: 

New Plans and Policies are framed to free the India from Naxals. Under the new strategy, three battalions from Jharkhand and one from Bihar have been removed and deployed in Bastar. This step has been taken to intensified the action against naxals.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah has said that the target is to make the country completely Naxal-free by March 31, 2026. Taking a step in this direction, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) is deploying four new battalions of over 4,000 personnel in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh. According to Shah, the fight against Naxalism is now in its final stages and decisive action is being taken for its complete elimination.

Once again strict action was initiated by security forces against Naxalites in the effected areas. Security forces have achieved major successes against Naxalites this year. So far 153 Naxalites have been killed in encounters. 40 battalions of CRPF are already deployed in Chhattisgarh, including Cobra units. Now after controlling Naxalite activities in Jharkhand and Bihar, four battalions are being removed from there and sent to the most affected Bastar region of Chhattisgarh.

Now more strong preparations for anti-Naxal operations in Bastar are ready. New CRPF battalions will be deployed in the remote areas of Bastar, 450-500 km from Raipur. The force will set up Forward Operating Bases (FOBs) in these areas, so that development work can be started after ensuring security. 40 FOBs have been set up in Chhattisgarh in the last three years, which strengthens anti-Naxal operations.

For this purpose need for technology and resources has been considered and required steps are being taken. CRPF officials believe that operations in South Bastar will require constant technology and resources. There is a threat of ambushes and explosive devices by Naxalites here, so the force is being strengthened with helicopters and other resources. The purpose of deploying new battalions is to establish control over the 'no-go' areas of Bastar and end Naxalism within the stipulated time frame.

This decisive step of the government and security forces against Naxalism shows that the country is moving rapidly towards the elimination of Naxalism. Amit Shah's commitment and the strategy of CRPF are playing an important role in this direction.

Landmine blast triggered by Maoist rebels

Feb 23, 2013 14:32 Moscow Time
Rebel attack in India: 8 police officers killed

                                                                                                                                                          Photo: EPA

At least eight people, including seven policemen, were killed in a landmine blast triggered by Maoist rebels in India's eastern state of Bihar, officials said Saturday.
The insurgents targeted a convoy on patrol in the district of Gaya, some 130 kilometres south of state capital Patna, on Friday. The district is a known rebel stronghold.

"Seven policemen and a village elder travelling in the jeep were killed in the attack," Mohammed Akhtar Hussain, district deputy police chief, said.

The rebels then looted the weapons of the slain policemen, while security forces launched search operations to track them down.

Maoist militants, who claim to be fighting for the rural poor, tribal people and the landless, operate in 13 of India's 29 states.

They usually target police and government installations. Indian leaders have described the left-wing insurgency as the greatest internal threat facing India. 

Rebel attack in India: 8 police officers killed

Leftist author Dipankar Chakraborty passed away

His loss would be sorely felt in the movemental 

In the photo above - Dipankar Chakrabarty (seated on the right) at a peoples’ hearing in Singur

Dipankar Chakraborty (1941-2013)//From Sanhati
January 29, 2013
Dipankar Chakraborty, leftist author and activist, and editor of the Bengali political magazine ‘Aneek’, passed away at 10.05 PM on 27th January, at his Teghoria residence in Kolkata following a cardiac arrest. He was one of the founder members of APDR (Association for Protection of Democratic Rights). At the time of death he was one of the Vice Presidents of APDR. Aneek was launched in 1964 and has been published uninterruptedly since; except for the 19 months when Chakraborty was in jail during the Emergency. He had been a dedicated supporter of and participant in peoples’ movements in West Bengal, while not holding back from criticizing what he felt were failings of these movements. His loss would be sorely felt in the movemental and intellectual space in Bengal.
Press Release from Aneek
Dipankar Chakroborty (71), the founder-editor of the independent Left journal, ANEEK, passed away on Sunday night. A cardiac patient, he had suffered respiratory problem last evening and died on the way to hospital. He is survived by his wife, son and daughter and grandchildren.
He was born in Dhaka in 1941 and grew up in Murshidabad after the partition. Educated in Baharampur and Kolkata, Chakroborty taught economics at Krishnanath college at Baharampur. he later settled in Kolkata.
A veteran of the Left movement since the sixties, he began publishing and editing ANEEK since 1964 when ruptures in the CPI on ideo-political issues led to first split and birth of the CPI(M).
In the wake of the Naxalbari uprising three years later that had triggered the second split and birth of the CPI(ML), Chakroborty did not join the new party. But he made ANEEK an independent forum for debates on contemporary communist movement, both national and international.
Under his stewardship, ANEEK has become one of the leading left periodical in Bengal and among the few ‘little magazines’ which have survived five decades against all odds. He himself was an accomplished political commentator and had several books to his credit. Chakroborty was jailed by the S.S Roy government during the Emergency. A life-long defender of human rights, he was also one of the founders of Association for Protection of Democratic Rights and its vice-president.
He was always active in the campaigns of release of political prisoners irrespective of the creed of the ruling parties and governments since the seventies. He stood by peoples’ movements and joined protests in their support despite his failng health– from Maruti to Nonadanga.
He was also one of the founders of Peoples’ Books Society, a major publication house and a enthusiast of Little Magazine movement in Bengal.
Noted novelist and activist Mahasveta Devi who knew Chakroborty closely expressed her ‘profound shock’. ” I am deeply grieved. It’s an irreplaceable loss for the human rights movement as well as for me,” the octogenarian writer said. Poet Sankhaya Ghosh, also mourned Chakroborty’s death. ” I feel like losing a near and dear one,” he said. (Courtesy:Sanhati)

Growing connection between two outlawed groups

Banned Islamic group and Maoists said to form allianceThey may be strange ideological bedfellows, but SIMI extremists and Maoist insurgents appear to be working together, according to Indian officials.
By Chandan Das for Khabar South Asia in Jamshedpur
January 05, 2013

The banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and Maoist rebels have formed an alliance in the past four years, with SIMI financially aiding the Naxalite insurrection and even helping the rebels elude capture by government forces in 2012, West Bengal Director General of Police Naparajit Mukherjee said in an interview.

At a November meeting in New Delhi between Union Home Secretary R. K. Singh and chief secretaries and directors general of police from nine Indian states affected by the Maoist insurgency, Mukherjee became the first senior security official to bring the SIMI-Maoist connection out into the open and document it.

For four years, he told Khabar South Asia, Indian security services have been tracking and trying to foil a growing connection between the two outlawed groups, which have starkly different ideologies. Islamist extremists oppose secularism and wish to impose a strict interpretation of sharia law, while Maoism is atheistic and regards religion as a reactionary force.

"I have told the Union Home Secretary that several above-board groups owing allegiance to the Maoists have teamed up with certain elements of (SIMI) and are prompting the common people to revolt against the government," Mukherjee said.

He informed Singh and other officials who attended the meeting that SIMI was aiding the Maoists in at least three of West Bengal’s districts that border Bangladesh.

"Investigations by the police and intelligence agencies have revealed that while the SIMI has been successful in establishing a strong link with the Maoists in a number of states, the nexus is the strongest in West Bengal," Singh told Khabar. “As West Bengal shares a 4,095km-long border with Bangladesh, the logistics work fine for both banned outfits in this state."

SIMI and the Maoists (CPI) -- which formed in 2004 through the merger of two ultra-leftist groups, the People’s War Group and the Maoist Communist Centre – have been working together since 2008. Indian authorities first learned about the connection following the 2010 arrest in Karnataka state of a Dubai-based operative suspected of circulating counterfeit money in Karnataka and the neighboring state of Kerala, Mukherjee said.

In 2010, according to to R. K. Meena, Director of Naxal Management for the Ministry of Home Affairs, police in New Delhi arrested a suspected Kashmir-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative for allegedly trying to arrange alliance-building meetings between SIMI and leaders of the Maoist rebel group.

"During interrogation, [he] revealed that he was sent to India to try and pass on funds to the Maoists through the SIMI," Meena told Khabar.

"A HuJI (Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami) operative … who was also arrested by the police in the same year, also pled guilty that he had come from Kashmir to hold talks with the Maoists," he added.

Around that time, Indian police and paramilitary forces launched multiple operations aimed at crushing the Maoist movement, officials said. By early 2012, security forces had cornered the Naxalites, by cutting off their supplies of food, armaments and cash and forcing them to starve in their tropical forest hideaways.

But then SIMI intervened.

"It was at this crucial juncture that the SIMI activists stepped into the picture," Meena said. "As all the dedicated routes of the Maoists were blocked by the forces, stopping the arms and even food supplies to the rebels, the SIMI activists … extended a helping hand to the Naxalites by offering their international routes to smuggle in arms and ammunition from foreign sources." (Courtesy:Khabar South Asia)