Any attempts to eliminate all Naxalites/ Maoists would create more Maoists. If one clearely has a look at the story of the Rajdhani express one would know that they were armed with basic weapons and hardly had firearms. Maosim is not equivalent to terrorism as it is often equated to be as this is just a reaction of a common man to the problems that he is facing. He was anyways fighting for survival and on top of that rising food prices are not helping him out in anyway. If that was too less the threat of draught and floods. Its a story of every year.
If one looks at the places where Naxalism is active we would see that places like Jharkhand, Orissa, Vidarbha, Chattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh are also the poorest parts of the country, the stories of atrocities on the common people here is not unknown to everybody. Also these are zones of a lot of action from mother nature be it floods or draughts or both as we are still dependent on rains to take care of our crop.
Strangely the most ambitious project called the River Linking Project which was targeted to take care of all our future water requirements and problems. The problems of draughts as well as floods wont exist but it has been strangely scrapped. No one knows or understands why it has been scrapped but one can only say that probably it happened as it was an ambitious project started off by a party which is now sitting in opposition. Strangely the government is not under scrutiny for this. If India can affoard construction of a Dalit memorial for 800 cr we definitely deserve a project like this.
The media is always present when Mr. Rahul Gandhi is present in a village eating with them and presenting its views on how great our leaders are. Mr. Gandhi himself has said that Naxalism is caused due to the inability of the government to reach out to its people. This statement was meant to attack the state governments where Naxalism is common but the fact is that Centre is as much responsible for this
The fact is that any villager in these areas is a potential Naxalite as his land is often forcibly taken away in the name of development, anyone who has land is still a farmer and any one who loses it either commits a suicide or is a Naxal or in our government's terms more dangerous than terrorists.
Its better that we concentrate on the reason rather than putting fingers on our neighbours for this movement and their funding. Atleast people who have survived the attack on Rajdhani Express should understand and share this view with me as miraculously all of them are unhurt even after the hijack.
All these are major problems that our government does not seem to have an intent to sort out quickly and are now talking about using force, which would ultimately create more and more Naxals or so called TERRORISTS.
I fail to understand how the goverment has managed to find an extremly callous solution for resolving the Maoist issue:Using Force against Force .Ensuring development and providing basic amenties to the adivasis and landless labourers,supporting NGO's working at grassroot level should be the approach to combat the growing unrest and violence,instead the goverment has found convinient solution in labelling this movement as a terrorist activity and creating task forces like "Greyhounds". Greyhounds are the specially trained commando wing of the Andhra Pradesh police, notorious for its ruthless killings of Maoists and their sympathisers, mostly in fake encounters. They best illustrate the government's response to the Maoist insurgency.The Greyhounds are said to be a law unto themselves and are known to have therequisite political backing to defy the directives of the Andhra Pradesh high court and those of the National Human Rights
ReplyDeleteCommission. Unfortunately, however, the
Indian prime minister has chosen to cite
such a lawless band of policemen as a
model to be emulated by other states affected
by the "Naxalite problem".
Rohit,rightly said in your conclusion - the goverment is not resolving the issue ,but fuelling the Naxalite Movement and creating circumstances that are /will create more and more Naxals.
The most ironical thing is that most of us do not know what it is all about. It is very important for us to realize all our problems before classifying them.
ReplyDeletePrice rise can be controlled with economic measures that our government is scared to do as it might stall the industry for a while. We keep voting them in only because they speak well and are media friendly. This is no sustainable growth that Mr. Singh keeps talking about.