Jharkhand: Maoists protest against the Centre
Maoits in Latehar district of Jharkhand pasted posters in protest of the government's decision of inviting multinational companies in the country. Maoists do not seem to be ending armed struggle despite attempts made by the state government and PUCL.
SEVERAL MAOIST activists pasted posters in the Latehar district of Jharkhand protesting the home minister’s statement of responding them militarily. The rebels in the district appealed the residents over there to protest the government’s decision of inviting multinational companies in the country.
Latehar SP Kuldeep Dwivedi accepted the fact that the police got to know about the posters being pasted in the different corners of the block but the police have not been able to locate any of them.
The Maoists are not only protesting the government’s decision by putting in posters but also they are doing destructive activities like setting tractors on fire near the Durua railway station, which is almost six kilometre away from the Latehar.
However, talks have begun between the Maoists and the state government to put an end to this violence. The unit chief of People’s Union for Civil Liberties Subrato Bhattacharya said that the organisation would help in resolving the issue between both the parties. The organisation has offered Maoists to come on the negotiating table.
He added that if Maoists shun the violence, PUCL would appeal to the government to stop repression. Bhattacharya gave the example of leaders like Balagopal and Shankaran who did great job in bringing the government and the People’s War to a common table in the early 2000. “There is need of pro- people programme to be implemented in this part of the country which should be supported by an equally good governance that is free from any kind of corruption,” he said.
But Maoists do not seem to be ending the armed struggle despite attempts being made by the state government and PUCL. Koteswara Rao said that the proposal of talks by the Union home minister Chidambaram is nothing but a high drama prepared and directed by Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh and Pranab Mukherjee. Maoists will only talk to them if three of their demands will get fulfilled. They want withdrawal of all the central and state police forces from any Maoist infested area, unconditional release of all political prisoners and the scrapping of all World Bank proposed projects.
However, the banned ultra left units is in no mood to stop the violent movements taking place in atleast nine states of the country.
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