It preys like a virus, which breeds in an area which is weak and neglected by both man and beast. This is Naxilism or the Red Virus. Those infected are The Naxalites. They are driven mainly by their ideology and believe more in the bullet and blood rather than the ballot. It is only successful when their ideology is accepted by the masses for achievement of their goals. The goals are nothing but a chunk of a fare share of the society. The means are always violent and the result is written in blood. This can be seen from both the Chinese and the Russian revolutions.

India and the rest of South East Asia were supposed to be taken over by either the Russians or the Chinese or both of them together. This strategy was defined in the early years of the Chinese revolution when Russian support was driving the formation and the foundation stones of the Modern Communist China were being laid. Under this strategy both the countries wanted the red revolution to spread to all the countries and when such was established throughout Asia then a single call for unification would unite the entire Asia into a single communist entity. Though the Russians failed but the Chinese did not and the glaring example of their success is Nepal. A peaceful take over by would work in a country like India, Nepal, Cambodia Vietnam, Myanmar etc. An exception is Tibet

The term Naxilism is inherited from the village Naxalbari, in West Bengal, where the seeds of Naxalism were first sown by a section of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) led by Charu Majumdar and Kanu Sanyal. Majumdar greatly admired Mao Zedong of China and was their agent in the Indian strategy as described above. His writings like the ’Historic Eight Documents’ formed the basis of Naxalite ideology. This grew into a mammoth tree with deep roots as it led from a violent uprising in May 25, 1967 to the formation All India Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries (AICCCR), and later the CPI (M), Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist).

A separate Ideology existed from the beginning and that was of the Maoist Communist Centre, which evolved out of the Dakshin Desh-group. MCC later fused with People’s War Group to form Communist Party of India (Maoist).

A third form or a broken away faction of the AICCCR is that of the Andhra revolutionary communists, which was mainly presented by UCCRI (ML), following the mass line legacy of T. Nagi Reddy and at an early stage.

These are just the different forms of the same virus which has mutated over time.

This cancer is spreading like wild fire and has engulfed more than 160 out of the 604 administrative districts. More than 40, 000 active and well armed members are involved in this movement.

Today some groups have become legal organisations participating in parliamentary elections, such as Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation. Others, such as Communist Party of India (Maoist) and Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Janashakti, are engaged in armed guerrilla struggles.

Countering this revolution:

1.    Armed suppression:   This is the most effective way of handling and crushing an uprising. We should have a special task force created to crush this insurgency from the effected populace. This force should be highly motivated and any casualty should be adorned with state honours and other gifts to motivate so that the people willingly fight this menace even if it involves sacrifice of life and limb. The irony is that our paramilitary forces involved in tackling these insurgencies are failing. This is as they are facing two threats one internal and one external. The internal threat of mismanagement, lack of motivation, corruption, misuse has left the force totally demoralized and weans them away from direct combat as cowards. Externally the lack of modern training and equipment of the Maoists and a hostile populace which is people caught between the two systems. The government is lacking the will to suppress this revolution by force and all its efforts till date are half hearted. We have to change this to succeed.

2.   Upliftment and development of the affected area:    This is possible only after this resistance is crushed as any strategy adopted in between is bound to be met with failure as the Maoists will vaporise such ambitious plans of the government.

3.   Good Judicial and administrative system:   It dispenses fair and speedy justice along with a modern, educated, uncorrupt, dedicated police force providing good security to all. This would bring back the masses to the system.

I hope we are not too late as New Delhi is not very far for the insurgents.