Bastar’s NGO MBM on intelligence radar for links with bsCEM in Delhi

 

 

TWO pro-Maoists outfits, including one Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) working in Chhattisgarh’s restive Bastar division – the hotbed of Naxalism – are on the radar of Intelligence agencies, after sloganeering and postering commemorating ‘Naxalbari Uprising’ and urging the popular masses to boycott the Lok Sabha elections, appeared in the peripheral area of Delhi University (DU) on May 23. Intelligence agencies, both at Centre and State, swung into action after objectionable graffiti and posters were found in DU area to commemorate Naxalbari movement while holding Indian parliamentary system as corrupt and called for boycotting the general elections. The wall paintings also called for building a powerful militant resistance to reach a new democratic revolution The Naxalbari Uprising of 1967 was a militant uprising of landless poor peasants, which seized land from the landlords and redistributed it to the poor and landless peasantry in a village named Naxalbari, Bengal. May 25 this year marked the 57th anniversary of this event.

 

“Our deeply-embedded intelligence network has affirmed the involvement of DU-based revolutionary left student organization Bhagat Singh Chhatra Ekta Manch (bsCEM), in this incident, which is associated with Chhattisgarh-based pro-Maoists civil society Moolwasi Bachao Manch (MBM) Bastar,” knowledgeable sources from Intelligence agency averred to The Hitavada. Sources revealed that the activists from two groups – including academicians, student leaders and even representatives of prominent international NGOs – are part of distantly-operating ‘Maoists Urban’ network, which are basically front organisations for the leftist cadre. “The youths studying in DU are well connected with left ultras as they often raise voice against the State and security forces engaged in Anti Naxal Operations particularly in Chhattisgarh and elsewhere,” he pointed out. According to sources, the fresh development in DU campus holds tremendous significance given the recent admission of CPI (Maoists) that its organisation strength has suffered massive depletion in Chhattisgarh, ever since the Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Government came into power and launched major offensive against the rebels. “So far, 113 ultras have been gunned down in separate encounters with the security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar division, which is in tune with Home Minister Amit Shah’s April 17 declaration that Naxalism will be eliminated completely from Chhattisgarh,” they maintained. Sources, however, pointed out that despite repeated setbacks in the far-located strongholds in the jungle tracts of central India, particularly in Chhattisgarh, the activists and sympathisers of Maoists are repeatedly attempting to penetrate into urban areas.

 

 

“The incident of May 23 in DU campus is the harbinger of revamped strategy by proscribed left ultras. Cadres of Maoists urban network are constantly getting support from their front organisations like Bhagat Singh Chhatra Ekta Manch (bsCEM) and Moolwasi Bachao Manch, Bastar and likewise urban centres across the country. The Maoist movement may have hit a bloody patch in their tribal strongholds, but such outfits are very proactive in Delhi, Maharashtra, Haryana, Gujarat, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Sources also referred to a key document of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) titled ‘Strategy and Tactics of the Indian Revolution’ as drawing a blueprint of the Maoist plan to seize political power. “One of the strategies adopted by Maoists is to mobilise certain targeted sections of the urban population through its mass organisations which are otherwise known as ‘front organisations’,” he underlined. Pointing out the modus-operandi of such organisations, sources said that they pursue civil rights related issues and are also well acclimatised and synced at exploiting the loopholes in the framework to their advantage. “Ideologues and supporters of Maoists urban networks in cities and towns have undertaken a concerted and systematic propaganda against the state. As a matter of fact, these ideologues are more dangerous than the cadres of the People’s Liberation Guerilla Army,” the sources expressed.

 

 

 

NGO Moolwasi Bachao Manch (Bastar) in the orchestration of the incident in DU area. He, however, affirmed that the Bastar-based Moolwasi Bachao Manch NGO is already under their scanner along with other such outfits and societies.

 

 

jungles, but we can’t shoot the Urban Maoists. Then how are we going to defeat the Maoist ideology and the urban Maoist”, he quipped. According to this source, even at the Union Home Ministry level, there is not much effort to neutralise the Urban Maoist and finally defeat the Maoist ideology. ”Everyone is very happy when there are big encounters. Security Forces don’t understand that Maoist movement will end, only when we successfully defeat the Maoist ideology,” he said and further asserted that the Central Agencies must start a huge awareness campaigns in colleges and universities all over India and sensitise the younger generation against the Maoist and their failed ideology.