Jan Sangharsh Samiti, a city-based organisation, has sent a letter to Amit Shah, Union Home Minister, urging him to respond to the appeal for peace talks by proscribed Communist Party of India (Maoist) only if they disband their organisation, disclose names of their urban fronts, and declare full faith in the Constitution of India. Datta Shirke, President, Jan Sangharsh Samiti, Nagpur, stated in a letter to Shah that CPI (Maoist) appealing peace talks was good but it should be responded to subject to certain conditions.

 

“There can be no peace with a person who has come to kill you. Hence, some pre-conditions must apply,” Shirke stated in the letter to the Union Home Minister. Listing these pre-conditions, Shirke said that the underground leaders of CPI (Maoist) must come out in the open on April 14, on the occasion of birth anniversary of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar and publicly apologise for killing thousands of innocent tribals and Dalits. “They must publicly declare that they have shunned the path of violence and shall henceforth follow the Constitutional path. Maoists must openly declare that they have full faith in the Constitution of India and that they accept and will follow the Constitutional governance mechanism,” he added.

 

Further, the Maoists must publicly declare that their ideal of ‘Seizure of Political Power by Armed Force’ is not acceptable and that they are ready to take part in the mainstream Constitutional political process. They must dissolve CPI (Maoist), disband the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army, and deposit all their arms and ammunition with the Police. All the Maoist cadres, right from the General Secretary to the last PLGA soldier, must surrender before the security forces. Maoists must openly declare the names of their urban cadres and dissolve urban front organisations. “Since the Maoists have launched a protracted war against India, they must first declare that their war against India is over. Only then should the peace talks be started,” Shirke stated.