Maoists trying to expand activities to newer areas: Home ministry

May 09, 2017 00:23

The Maoists are trying to extend their "movement" to new areas and they stepped up their activities along the shared borders of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, a government dossier said.

The most deadly of the Naxalites' formations -- the Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee, operating along the southern border flank of Chhattisgarh, is behind this move.

"In order to extend their movement to newer areas and deflect attention of the security forces away from the Dandakaranya region, the CPI-Maoist has stepped up activities at the tri-junction of Chhattisgarh-MP-Maharashtra.

"They plan to develop the area into a new zone for which a vistaar core commiteee has been formed," it said.

"The DKSZC has reportedly sent around 60 People's Liberation Guerrilla Army cadres to participate in political and organisational work," the agenda paper placed by the Union home ministry during Monday's meeting on Naxal issues with various states said.

It said, in a similar fashion, other inter-state boundaries like along West Bengal-Jharkhand, Odisha-Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh-Jharkhand have also seen activities of the CPI-Maoist for "consolidation and expansion".

It said 2016 witnessed maximum Naxal violence incidents in the states of Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh who together accounted for 68.5 per cent of the total incidents and 69 per cent of the deaths.

"Bihar followed by Odisha and Maharashtra accounted for 12.3 per cent, 8.2 per cent and 6.9 per cent of the incidents respectively. Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Telangana together reported less than 4 per cent incidents," it said.

Chhattisgarh, it said, despite being the "core area" for Maoist activities recorded a decrease of 15 per cent in incidents of violence in 2016.

"The year 2017 (upto April 15) has also seen an overall 23.3 per cent (377 to 289) decline in number of violent incidents so far as compared to the corresponding period of 2016," it said.

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