It is fine to talk of a ruthless approach when you are dealing with terrorists. However, when you are dealing with your own people, strictness must be tempered with empathy.
Gajarla Ravi alias Uday ‘used to put up posters, run errands for Maoists since age 7’. At the time of his death, he was senior-most Maoist leader in Andhra Pradesh-Odisha border areas.
Along with Gajarla Ravi alias Uday, Andhra Pradesh Greyhounds also killed Aruna, a senior Maoist leader in Andhra-Odisha Border Special Zonal Committee & wife of slain Maoist Chalapathi.
After few rounds of productive negotiations, talks were called off by Maoists in January 2005 on grounds of continued operations by Andhra Pradesh’s Greyhounds force against the group.
Sudhakar’s death comes just a fortnight after security forces eliminated CPI (Maoist) chief Basavaraju. Earlier, top leaders Chalapathi and Prayag Manjhi were also killed.
The IG's assertions, made in an interview with ThePrint, come 10 days after security forces killed Basavaraju & 26 other Maoists in a 3-day encounter in Abujmarh.
Among these are former Maoists who brought to the table their knowledge about unit within the armed wing of CPI (Maoist) responsible for protecting top leaders including Basavaraju.
Superintendent Kiran G Chavan said that the surrendered militants would receive full support and rehabilitation benefits under the government's surrender policy.
By killing Lohara & Ganjhu, who carried bounties of Rs 10L & Rs 5L, security forces have dealt big blow to Jharkhand Jan Mukti Parishad, a Communist Party of India (Maoist) splinter group.
The operation in Chhattisgarh, hailed as the most successful anti-Naxal action in recent times, dealt a significant blow to the top Maoist leadership, striking at the very spine of the Naxalite movement.
An Indian Hitler will have to be exceptionally lucky to survive for any length of time. This much hope ought to be enough for seekers of liberty and equality, wrote Sharad Anantrao Joshi, president of Swatantra Bharat Paksh party, in 1995.
A public meeting, where the women voiced their protest, took place this month in Delhi, grounded on the findings of an AIDWA survey, covering 9,000 women borrowers.
Joint submarine patrol ‘covered more than 2,000 nautical miles’ and was joined by Russian support vessels. Beijing maintains exercise ‘not directed against any third party’.
From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.
No empathy or sympathy for either Maoists or urban Naxals.
Our misplaced empathy/sympathy got us into this situation in the first place. The same mistake must not be repeated.
We are winning against the Maoists. But we also need to win against the urban Naxals. Traitors and anti-socials like Nivedita Menon and Apoorvanand are abusing our universities and colleges as recruitment centres for all kinds of anti-national activities.
Mr. Singh, the empathy that you and others had for the Maoists is the reason why terrorism flourished in central India.
Now that empathy is gone, we are seeing positive results.
No empathy or sympathy for either Maoists or urban Naxals.
Our misplaced empathy/sympathy got us into this situation in the first place. The same mistake must not be repeated.
We are winning against the Maoists. But we also need to win against the urban Naxals. Traitors and anti-socials like Nivedita Menon and Apoorvanand are abusing our universities and colleges as recruitment centres for all kinds of anti-national activities.
Mr. Singh, the empathy that you and others had for the Maoists is the reason why terrorism flourished in central India.
Now that empathy is gone, we are seeing positive results.