Naxalism apart from other thing is also a police policy problem in the sense that, under India's constitution, security is a matter for state government rather than the centre. So an integrative national policy for countering the naxals has been missing.
Naxalism flourishes in areas and amongst the people where the government agencies have failed in delivering basic services to those who need them the most.
The naxals are purportedly fighting to bring in more equity and dignity to the peasants and the landless, however in the process they are holding on to the country’s richest natural resource base under the pretext that once the development agencies come in then they would exploit the natural resources mercilessly. Don’t you feel they are themselves blocking the development work?
Ours is a democratic country and however inefficient it may be, it has the seeds of social transformation. This is far better than the senseless violence the naxals are perpetuating. They have the least regard toward the democratic institutions and I would like to quote here that the communist ideology was the one which talked about the balkanization of India during the freedom movement. They still seem to be in that mode. The Maoist fail to understand that bullet cannot overrule the power of ballot. The extremist groups are collecting crores of rupees from all types of traders, contractors and other people in the form of extortion. They are also imposing levy on the farmers. The Naxals have consciously chosen the path of violence against the state, so in one way it impose a moral responsibility on them to voluntarily come back to the mainstream.
This piece of mind may attract the wrath of some of you; however I expect your esteemed views.
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I agree with you that Naxalism has lost its focus to a great extent. But why is it so? Why naxalism acquired such proportions? We must admit the fact that it is a collective action though it is violent in nature. Now we need to look into the causes which are promoting this collective action. We also seem to have the view like them that bullet can solve the problem. We need to think beyond that. We need to improve our delivery of development programmes. At the same time we can counter those which are indulging in violent activities. So my point is that we need not only to eradicate present naxalism but also naxalism that can emerge in the future. We need to prevent the young productive population from joining such movements. For that we need more than bullet.
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