Kolkata: CPI(Maoist) today said it will
positively respond to the Union Home Minister P Chidambaram's
call for talks if he withdraws security forces from states
like Chhattisgarh and West Bengal.
"If the government is serious, then let it wind up the
airbases-28 and dissolve the para-military command in
Chhattisgarh," Maoist leader Kishenji told PTI over phone from
an undisclosed location today.
For a settlement in West Bengal, he also demanded
autonomy to three tribal-dominated districts.
"If the government is eager to solve the problem of the
tribals, let it give autonomy to the three districts and allow
the tribals to plan out their own welfare," he said.
Reacting to Chidambaram's proposal for an alternative
administrative structure within the sixth schedule, he said
sixth schedule had lost its viability. The Bhuria Committee
report had provision for empowering tribals, but that had not
been implemented.
"The Maoists will trust the government and go for talks
if it acts accordingly," Kishenji said.
PTI
First Published: Wednesday, December 23, 2009, 20:28