Lucknow, Dec 4 (PTI) Two naxalites were arrested while another was found dead by the police in Kon forest area of Sonebhadra district, Home Department sources said here.
Rakesh Mishra and Amarnath Khushwaha, who allegedly killed another naxalite Ram Briksha Kol, were arrested yesterday by the police team after an encounter in Kon area, Additional Director General (Law and Order) A K Jain told reporters here.
The body of Kol, who was carrying a reward of Rs 50 thousand was also recovered from the jungle, he added.
A self-loading rifle, a walkie-talkie, a number of cartridges of different bores were recovered from their possession, Jain said.
Friday, December 04, 2009
Jharkhand Campaign for 3rd phase intensifies
Published on : Friday 04 Dec 2009 16:17 - by ANI
Ranchi, Dec 4 - ANI: In Jharkhand, the leaders of the various political parties are leaving no stones unturned in wooing the voters for the third phase of the State elections.
The polling in this phase will be held in 11 constituencies on December 8.
RJD President Lalu Prasad Yadav, BJP President Rajnath Singh, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha Chief Shibu Soren, Janata Dal United leader Nitish Kumar and Jharkhand Vikas Morcha leader Babu Lal Marandi are addressing a series of meetings throughout the state to grab the attention of the voters.
The leaders are blaming each other as the battle draws closer, garnering support for their party candidate.
Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi also arrived here today to campaign for the remaining three phases of the Jharkhand assembly polls.
Rahul Gandhi was received by Union Food Processing Industries Minister Subodh Kant Sahay, Congress in-charge of Jharkhand K Kesavrao and other senior leaders at the Birsa Munda Airport here.
Rahul is scheduled to address rallies in Bermo, Latehar, Ghaghra in Bishunpur, and Simdega. He had visited the State before the first phase of polling.
UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi is scheduled to address rallies here on December 8. According to sources, despite tight security, violence continues unabated in the state. Polls for 26 Assembly seats were held on November 25 and 14 Assembly were held on December 2.
In third phase, elections will be held for seven seats, while 14 and 15 constituencies respectively will go for election in the fourth and the fifth phases.
Counting of votes will be held on December 23.
The Election Commission has deployed Central Police Forces (CPF) and the State Armed Police (SAP) drawn from other states for the Jharkhand polls, as it is one of the States most prone to Naxal violence. - ANI
Ranchi, Dec 4 - ANI: In Jharkhand, the leaders of the various political parties are leaving no stones unturned in wooing the voters for the third phase of the State elections.
The polling in this phase will be held in 11 constituencies on December 8.
RJD President Lalu Prasad Yadav, BJP President Rajnath Singh, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha Chief Shibu Soren, Janata Dal United leader Nitish Kumar and Jharkhand Vikas Morcha leader Babu Lal Marandi are addressing a series of meetings throughout the state to grab the attention of the voters.
The leaders are blaming each other as the battle draws closer, garnering support for their party candidate.
Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi also arrived here today to campaign for the remaining three phases of the Jharkhand assembly polls.
Rahul Gandhi was received by Union Food Processing Industries Minister Subodh Kant Sahay, Congress in-charge of Jharkhand K Kesavrao and other senior leaders at the Birsa Munda Airport here.
Rahul is scheduled to address rallies in Bermo, Latehar, Ghaghra in Bishunpur, and Simdega. He had visited the State before the first phase of polling.
UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi is scheduled to address rallies here on December 8. According to sources, despite tight security, violence continues unabated in the state. Polls for 26 Assembly seats were held on November 25 and 14 Assembly were held on December 2.
In third phase, elections will be held for seven seats, while 14 and 15 constituencies respectively will go for election in the fourth and the fifth phases.
Counting of votes will be held on December 23.
The Election Commission has deployed Central Police Forces (CPF) and the State Armed Police (SAP) drawn from other states for the Jharkhand polls, as it is one of the States most prone to Naxal violence. - ANI
Thursday, December 03, 2009
After Salt Lake posters, top cop admits to rise in Maoist activity
TNN 4 December 2009, 01:16am IST
KOLKATA: Director general of state police Bhupinder Singh on Thursday conceded that the Maoist menace had raised manifold in West Bengal in the last
ten years.
This is evident from the fact that the Maoists put up posters in a posh Salt Lake locality on Tuesday evening, which was the first day of the Peoples' Liberation Guerrilla Army's "raising week".
In the posters, they appealed to citizens to protest the price hike of essential commodities. They also demanded trial of both Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Mamata Banerjee in front a people's court and slammed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union home minister P Chidambaram alike for their "oppressive tactics" against their "mass movement".
Handwritten Maoist posters were found at the BD Market area, and the walls of adjacent the Bidhan Nagar Government school.
KOLKATA: Director general of state police Bhupinder Singh on Thursday conceded that the Maoist menace had raised manifold in West Bengal in the last
ten years.
This is evident from the fact that the Maoists put up posters in a posh Salt Lake locality on Tuesday evening, which was the first day of the Peoples' Liberation Guerrilla Army's "raising week".
In the posters, they appealed to citizens to protest the price hike of essential commodities. They also demanded trial of both Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Mamata Banerjee in front a people's court and slammed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union home minister P Chidambaram alike for their "oppressive tactics" against their "mass movement".
Handwritten Maoist posters were found at the BD Market area, and the walls of adjacent the Bidhan Nagar Government school.
Body of Maoist ultra recovered from jungles
TNN 4 December 2009, 01:16am IST
VARANASI: Is the dreaded Maoist ultra Ramvriksha Kole dead?
With the recovery of a body in the jungles of Amila near Chakaria police outpost of Kone police station in Sonebhadra district on Thursday, the police were trying to find out an answer to this question. According to SP Sonebhadra Pritindar Singh, during the combing operation, the police succeeded in arresting two Maoist ultras. On their tip-off, the police recovered the body of another Maoist. The arrested terrorists claimed that the dead person was Ramvriksha Kole.
Singh said following the claim, efforts had been intensified to confirm the identity of the deceased. He told TOI over phone that the family members and neighbours of Kole, who hailed from Naugarh (Chandauli), had been called to ascertain the identity. He said the police would reach a conclusion only after completion of the exercise.
Kole had emerged as a major challenge for the police of Maoist-affected districts of the region in the past five-six years. He was not only active in the region as commander but his activities were also noticed in adjoining states of Bihar, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh. The police had announced a cash award of Rs 50,000 on him.
It was suspected that Kole and another commander Munna Vishwakarma were present in the jungle of Amila on Wednesday. Following some altercation between the two groups, they indulged in firing. During the exchange of fire, Kole was killed. However, it could not become clear whether the arrested ultras belonged to Kole's group or Vishwakarma's.
VARANASI: Is the dreaded Maoist ultra Ramvriksha Kole dead?
With the recovery of a body in the jungles of Amila near Chakaria police outpost of Kone police station in Sonebhadra district on Thursday, the police were trying to find out an answer to this question. According to SP Sonebhadra Pritindar Singh, during the combing operation, the police succeeded in arresting two Maoist ultras. On their tip-off, the police recovered the body of another Maoist. The arrested terrorists claimed that the dead person was Ramvriksha Kole.
Singh said following the claim, efforts had been intensified to confirm the identity of the deceased. He told TOI over phone that the family members and neighbours of Kole, who hailed from Naugarh (Chandauli), had been called to ascertain the identity. He said the police would reach a conclusion only after completion of the exercise.
Kole had emerged as a major challenge for the police of Maoist-affected districts of the region in the past five-six years. He was not only active in the region as commander but his activities were also noticed in adjoining states of Bihar, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh. The police had announced a cash award of Rs 50,000 on him.
It was suspected that Kole and another commander Munna Vishwakarma were present in the jungle of Amila on Wednesday. Following some altercation between the two groups, they indulged in firing. During the exchange of fire, Kole was killed. However, it could not become clear whether the arrested ultras belonged to Kole's group or Vishwakarma's.
Minister prod on rebel fight
SANKARSHAN THAKUR
P Chidambaram
New Delhi, Dec. 2: Union home minister P. Chidambaram sought to throw off political and civil society shackles on the anti-Maoist security offensive today, using their repeated refusal to abjure violence and negotiate to build a strong case for confronting them.
In an effort calibrated to secure a broad consensus behind him, Chidambaram told the Rajya Sabha during a short duration discussion on internal security this evening: “It is time for us, for those who represent the state and believe in the parliamentary system to take a stand. You, all of you who are part of the state and the parliamentary system must tell me what to do, how to respond... I have done what I could to talk to them, we are not at war with them, they are citizens of this country, but they don’t seem interested, they call the parliamentary system rotten, they call it a pigsty. You must now tell us what we should do.”
Underscoring the complexities of tackling the Maoist challenge, Chidambaram pleaded: “There are any number of civil society bodies that blame the government, they paint the government in bad light and say Naxalite methods have a justification. This is not true.”
Chidambaram’s tone today clearly suggests the home ministry’s anti-Maoist offensive — planned in collaboration with governments of Naxalite-affected states — hasn’t been able to get off the ground with the intended punch for lack of political endorsement.
The minister wouldn’t spell it out, but there are divisions within the Congress itself on whether the Centre should sanction a campaign to wipe out the Maoists militarily.
Top leaders like Digvijay Singh and Ajit Jogi are believed to cautioned Sonia Gandhi about the adverse political implications of opening a bloody front against the Maoists. Rahul Gandhi has hinted at a more political approach to corrections, saying the growth of Naxalism owes to lack of governance.
In articulating his helplessness Chidambaram was seeking to rebuild political support for a fight to finish.
Chidambaram quoted at length from the post-election (June 12) Maoist document on aims and intents to inform the House that the Maoist objective was to destroy the state and the system.
“They say this very clearly and repeatedly, that they will wage armed struggle, that they want the overthrow of this state, how is one to respond to this, you must tell me. I have tried to talk to them, and all the response I have got is that they will not give up violence, even temporarily.”
During the two months since Chidambaram first spoke of neutralising the armed Maoist challenge, there has been an active civil society campaign aimed at preventing armed confrontation. Other than a string of peacenik meetings and appeals to the Prime Minister, there has also been lobbying to put brakes on the offensive.
On his part, Chidambaram too has been on a propaganda overdrive, with a slew of television and print interviews in which he has posited talks to the Maoists should they agree to halt violence. Probably to lend credibility to his position, he has also spoken, lately, to civil society activists like Himanshu Kumar of Chhattisgarh, and promised to attend public hearings in Maoist strongholds like Dantewada. But meantime, his ministry has continued to make preparations for mounting an offensive on the Maoists’ jungle bases in central and eastern India.
A top officer from the home ministry is co-ordinating the anti-Naxalite operations between state-level forces and central paramilitary units, dispatched to affected states. In Chhattisgarh, for instance — where Operation Green Hunt is in low-key operation — a dedicated command and coordination centre has been set up and the first batch of paramilitary officers briefed on the offensive.
P Chidambaram
New Delhi, Dec. 2: Union home minister P. Chidambaram sought to throw off political and civil society shackles on the anti-Maoist security offensive today, using their repeated refusal to abjure violence and negotiate to build a strong case for confronting them.
In an effort calibrated to secure a broad consensus behind him, Chidambaram told the Rajya Sabha during a short duration discussion on internal security this evening: “It is time for us, for those who represent the state and believe in the parliamentary system to take a stand. You, all of you who are part of the state and the parliamentary system must tell me what to do, how to respond... I have done what I could to talk to them, we are not at war with them, they are citizens of this country, but they don’t seem interested, they call the parliamentary system rotten, they call it a pigsty. You must now tell us what we should do.”
Underscoring the complexities of tackling the Maoist challenge, Chidambaram pleaded: “There are any number of civil society bodies that blame the government, they paint the government in bad light and say Naxalite methods have a justification. This is not true.”
Chidambaram’s tone today clearly suggests the home ministry’s anti-Maoist offensive — planned in collaboration with governments of Naxalite-affected states — hasn’t been able to get off the ground with the intended punch for lack of political endorsement.
The minister wouldn’t spell it out, but there are divisions within the Congress itself on whether the Centre should sanction a campaign to wipe out the Maoists militarily.
Top leaders like Digvijay Singh and Ajit Jogi are believed to cautioned Sonia Gandhi about the adverse political implications of opening a bloody front against the Maoists. Rahul Gandhi has hinted at a more political approach to corrections, saying the growth of Naxalism owes to lack of governance.
In articulating his helplessness Chidambaram was seeking to rebuild political support for a fight to finish.
Chidambaram quoted at length from the post-election (June 12) Maoist document on aims and intents to inform the House that the Maoist objective was to destroy the state and the system.
“They say this very clearly and repeatedly, that they will wage armed struggle, that they want the overthrow of this state, how is one to respond to this, you must tell me. I have tried to talk to them, and all the response I have got is that they will not give up violence, even temporarily.”
During the two months since Chidambaram first spoke of neutralising the armed Maoist challenge, there has been an active civil society campaign aimed at preventing armed confrontation. Other than a string of peacenik meetings and appeals to the Prime Minister, there has also been lobbying to put brakes on the offensive.
On his part, Chidambaram too has been on a propaganda overdrive, with a slew of television and print interviews in which he has posited talks to the Maoists should they agree to halt violence. Probably to lend credibility to his position, he has also spoken, lately, to civil society activists like Himanshu Kumar of Chhattisgarh, and promised to attend public hearings in Maoist strongholds like Dantewada. But meantime, his ministry has continued to make preparations for mounting an offensive on the Maoists’ jungle bases in central and eastern India.
A top officer from the home ministry is co-ordinating the anti-Naxalite operations between state-level forces and central paramilitary units, dispatched to affected states. In Chhattisgarh, for instance — where Operation Green Hunt is in low-key operation — a dedicated command and coordination centre has been set up and the first batch of paramilitary officers briefed on the offensive.
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