CPIM Polit Bureu member and West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Thursday said there has been definite progress in the fight against the “politics of terror” of the Maoists in the State.
Describing the Communist Party of India (Maoist) as a “terrorist outfit” that resorted to “killing, terror and plunder,” Mr. Bhattacharjee said that “people shall not surrender to this politics of terror.”
He also alleged that the Trinamool Congress was using the left wing extremists to kill leaders and supporters of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and convert the Jangalmahal region into a “killing field” where “the Trinamool Congress will eventually hoist their flag.”
Asked if he would also describe the Trinamool Congress as a terrorist organisation because of its alleged support to the Maoists, Mr. Bhattacharjee said: “They are supporting a terrorist organisation and in certain areas are also indulging in terrorist activities...However, on the whole we have not declared them a terrorist organisation [as per law].”
He said that over the past couple of months there had been discernible progress in the political struggle in the Maoist-affected Jangalmahal region, and that it would continue.
He was speaking at the release of a book titled “Maoism – Ideological decay, Political decline” by Nilotpal Basu, a member of the Central Committee of the CPI(M).
Criticising the politics of the Maoists, Mr. Bhattacharjee said that their activities would only provide an impetus to reactionary forces. The support that the Trinamool Congress had received from them was an example of this, he added.
Mr. Bhattacharjee said despite claims made by Maoists, their ideology had no connection with the beliefs of Mao. He said the book challenged the conviction of the Maoists that “they will be able to seize power through the murders they are committing.”
He said the Maoists had been able to gain control over a certain region, not because poor people and the Adivasis resided there, but because the area was inaccessible. “It is difficult for us to intervene in that region and easier for them to find hiding places there.”
(Source : The Hindu)
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