“CORRECTLY coordinating between illegal and legal structures, we should have an approach of step-by-step raising the forms of struggle and preparing the masses to stand up against the might of the State.” This is one of the many statements that expose the nefarious designs of CPI (Maoist) as far as the work of these Red terrorists in urban areas is concerned. And, this statement is part of the CPI (Maoist) document ‘Urban Perspective: Our Work in Urban Areas’. The Maoists have been busy implementing their devious toolkit to attract unsuspecting individuals towards finding a common cause with an anti-national plot. First, they spoke of Marxism, then Leninism, now Maoism, and some are even talking about ‘urban guerrilla Che Guevara’ to attract the youth towards his pictures and images.

 

Many individuals without proper understanding of Maoists’ vile designs fall prey to the propaganda of ‘fight for rights’ but gradually get trapped in the ideology that has the sole objective of overthrowing the Constitutionally established and democratically elected Government. The Maoists’ own documents -- ‘Urban Perspective: Our Work in Urban Areas’ and ‘Strategy and Tactics’ -- offer a glimpse of a dangerous plot of manufacturing anarchy especially in urban areas of India. For example, at one place in one of their documents, the Maoists highlight the need for building the broadest mass base ‘by building various types of mass organizations’. These mass organisations include open revolutionary, legal democratic, secret ones, and cover organizations, etc. ‘Depending upon the situation’, the Maoists define the role of different types of organisations as ‘primary for that period’. But, keeping in mind the long-term approach, they focus on building several types of mass organisations ‘simultaneously’.

 

“Thus, the general principle in regards to urban forms of organisation is that the mass organisations should be as wide as possible. As the Indian political situation is uneven, we need to explore the right combination of various types of mass organisations,” reveals their document. The Red terrorists plan for some of the ‘legal democratic’ type of Maoist mass organisations to be catering to a particular section viz. trade unions, student bodies, women’s fronts, caste abolition organisations, ‘nationality’ organisations, writers’ associations, lawyers’ organisations, teachers’ associations, cultural bodies, etc. “Others may be formed with issue-oriented programmes focusing on particular core questions like contract labour system, unemployment and job losses, caste atrocities, communalism, imperialist culture, violence on women, saffronisation of education, corruption, regional backwardness and statehood, etc. The scope is very wide, extending to the broad coalitions and alliances formed against repression, globalisation, Hindutva, and right up to the all-encompassing bodies formed with the banners of anti-capitalism or people’s struggles,” their document outlines. They have been forming such organisations at various levels ranging from town/city level to district level to State or national or even international level.

 

They use the network of such organisations to blow up any particular incident of their choice up to international level, and utilise this amplification to mount pressure on the Government. According to a source, common people do not know the toolkit of the Maoists and their urban operatives. Hence, unsuspectingly, they end up sympathising with the Maoist causes through seemingly ‘normal’ agitations and lectures. The participation of unsuspecting general public provides additional cover to the Maoists’ urban operatives to continue masquerading as rights activists and ‘academicians with conscience’. This has emerged as a major challenge for the security agencies to take action against such ‘Urban Naxals’. Also, when the agencies arrest some of these operatives, the Maoist ecosystem organisations operating in the domain of ‘legal rights’, masquerading as ‘legal democratic organisation’ resort to propaganda against the Government as well as the security agencies.

 

“So far, there is no law to tackle this challenge. The intellectuals supporting Maoists secretly pick holes in the existing laws like the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act or UAPA etc. There existed a vacuum that needed to be filled with enactment of a legislation that particularly tackles the challenge of ‘Urban Naxalism’ in the State. Hence, Maharashtra has proposed a new Bill,” said an official on the condition of anonymity. If people become aware of the ‘toolkit’ of Maoists and their urban ideologues and supporters, they will easily realise the need for the new law, he added. (Concludes)