Kolkata: The CPI (Maoist) today opposed
tomorrow's meeting between Union Home Minister P Chidambaram and Chief Ministers of four eastern states to formulate a strategy to combat Maoists, saying such meetings are only aimed at "killing more innocent people".
"The massive joint operations will only kill more people,
but will surely help expand areas of armed resistance in
India," party's central committee leader, Surya, said
in a statement here from an undisclosed destination.
He alleged that the joint operations against Maoists had
received "blessings from Uncle Sam (US), MNCs and feudal
landholders".
"FDIs and FIIs need a Maoist-free India for loot and
domination. The Salwa Judum in Chhatisgarh has emptied 644
villages and killed many hundreds to pave the way for land
acquisitions by corporate houses," he said.
In Jangalmahal in West Bengal, he alleged, the joint
forces and CPI(M)'s armed gangs have unleashed a reign of
terror in the interest of corporate houses for mining of
natural resources and land acquisitions.
He claimed West Bengal government has now sanctioned
another Rs 27 crore for raising a special armed force in the
districts where adivasis are resisting state terror.
Some Maoist sympathisers calling themselves 'Citizens of
West Bengal' would observe a 'Black Day' tomorrow in protest
against what it says "war against the poorest of poor in
India".
-PTI
First Published: Monday, February 08, 2010, 22:53