While some quarters are questioning the need for the proposed Maharashtra Special Public Security Bill, one of the core documents of the banned CPI (Maoist) reveals their plans for mobilisation and radicalisation of target groups particularly in urban areas. Their cover or mass organisations can be divided into seven types, through which they raise various issues that may appear to be ‘genuine’ in nature but the intention behind such agitations cannot be gauged by unsuspecting innocent people. CPI (Maoist) and its front organisations are already banned. But, their cadres come up with newer front organisations and continue with the agenda of creating unrest among people over various issues with an ultimate aim of overthrow of the Constitutionally established and democratically elected Government. They operate irrespective of the political party in power. According to sources in the know of things, the Maoists operate in two concentric circles -- one of mass organisations championing various seemingly genuine causes, and another engaged in co-ordination, mobilisation, and indoctrination.

 

Their real intention is to mobilise masses under various pretexts, stage agitations, indoctrinate people for ‘struggles’, and after gradual radicalisation get them on board as cadres actively plotting to overthrow the State. The organisations under the umbrella of CPI (Maoist) or through which Maoists’ urban cadres operate are divided into seven types -- A1 to A7. The A1 category has organisations that usually engage in ‘fact-finding’ with the sole intention of maligning the image of the Government of the day (irrespective of party in power) as well as security agencies. It has a women's wing, students’ wing, human rights’ wing etc.

 

If any encounter takes place and Naxalites/Maoists are killed, the fact-finding ‘experts’ arrive at the scene, visit the site, compile a report, only to call all such encounters as ‘extra-judicial killings’ in a bid to build pressure on security forces. However, if police personnel are killed by the Red terrorists, these fact-finding ‘experts’ are to be seen nowhere. A2 organisations are engaged in forming a Tactical United Front (TUF) with organisations that are busy fomenting trouble within the country by professing secessionist and divisive causes.

 

These organisations find common cause with organisations with separatist agenda pertaining to J&K, as well as the North-Eastern States, and call for ‘recognition to nationality struggles’. A3 covers international committees that speak the language of ‘people’s resistance’, anti-displacement unity, etc and are quick at ‘coloured (biased) internationalisation’ of any internal turmoil in India. The international supporters of Maoists and their sympathisers from India, are usually academics, who use words such as ‘liberation’, ‘struggles’, ‘resistance’, ‘self-determination’ etc. A4 category has mass organisations. An explanation of this found in CPI (Maoist) documents namely ‘Urban Perspective: Our Work in Urban Areas’ and ‘Strategy and Tactics’ is eye-opening.

 

This category has mainly three types of mass organisations as described in the Political and Organisational Review (POR) of the proscribed organisation. These three types include ‘secret revolutionary mass organisations, open and semi-open revolutionary mass organisations, and open legal mass organisations not directly linked to the Party’. The urban work within the ‘open legal mass organisations’ type is further sub-divided into three broad categories -- fractional work, cover organisations, and ‘legal’ democratic organisations. A5 category covers teachers’ associations particularly at the level of universities, but also covers primary teachers’ organisations too wherever convenient to the outlaws. These associations/organisations work to indoctrinate students by introducing them to concepts and causes that ultimately lead to the Maoists’ way of thinking.

 

They also have been trying to facilitate forming students’ organisations or unions in certain universities, with a particular focus on Central universities. A6 covers publications and the influence operations wing. Already, several of the CPI (Maoist) publications are banned in India. These include ‘People’s March’ etc. According to a source, the magazine ‘The Arrested’ published by banned CPI (Maoist) front Committee for Release of Political Prisoners (CRPP) had eulogised some terrorists who were given capital punishment by the Government of India years ago. The tone and tenor of these publications is to eulogise Maoists killed in encounters, to malign the security forces and the Government. A7 works in the domain of ‘political prisoners’.The Maoists call their arrested cadres as ‘political prisoners’ and deceptively try to equate them with freedom fighters. In fact, during the 9th Unity Congress of the Maoist organisation held in 2007, one of the resolutions was about this aspect. In that resolution, the outlaws had talked about ‘converting prisons into political universities’, which means that the arrested Maoist cadres/ideologues try to indoctrinate other prison inmates through seemingly casual conversations. CRPP works in this domain.