joey2

While China has effectively shutted anyone who speaks agaisnt the government while it was going through developement phase, India being a democracy faces a stiff challenge how to deal with maoist issue.

Ray do you think this issue will ever be that much critical as to test India at its limits? hopefully your getting what i mean.

oneman28

I think it's an issue of government, not those Maoists. India needs figure out what they are demanding and why there exists Maoists in India.

China government has good control of the socialty since it trys best to meet people's demand. At least, it can help people to meet their basic needs.

China's "last cave dwellers" refuse to leave - Boston.com

Here is an example. This happens in one of the most poor Chinese provinces. Government trys hard to help them: Building houses for them, providing electricity to this remote mountanous area, setting up school for them...


If India goverment can do the samething for the poor, I don't the Maoists can exists.

Ray

Maoists can be tamed.

It cannot be done with police action since the police is useless in quelling such elements. And anyway it requires political will the type with Chandrababu Naidu showed in Andhra Pradesh

I would not advocate the Army either since it would appear to be repressive.

The govt of the State has to try to improve the economic and social infrastructure. This will result in more positive result than by the use of force.

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667medic

Correct Sir. The naxals in Tamil Nadu were hunted down by Jayalalitha by using DGP Dewaram....

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saambaarblast

Sir, Naidu and his party TDP((and especially his late father-in-law NTR) relied on Maoists support to prop up his govt in AP. It is usually a cycle. Congress comes to power, weeds out naxal menace, then TDP comes to power and props up naxals/maoists.

Since TDP depends on OBC vote bank in northern AP(Telengana) and OBC's comprise the bulk of present day Maoists, they are natural allies. Yup, in India even Mao is mauled and raped by caste equations. .

Two people stand out in AP's recent history in containing Naxals. Late Jalagam Vengal Rao and late Kotla Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy, both Congressmen. The current Congress CM, YSR, is not too bad when it comes to tackling naxals. He means business.

Naxals only understand one language and that of barrel of the gun. Show no mercy and cap a few b@stards, they'll come to the negotiating table.

Ray

I am of the opinion that the barrel of the gun is of no use, unless there is economic reforms.

The only way to quell any unrest is to have programmes where the individual benefits and that too immediately and which is tangible and felt.

saambaarblast

Sir, naxalites have a presence even in a very prosperous region like the AP coastal belt , where masses are doing economcially well like in any other prosperous area in India. Such programs as mentioned by you should exist, but of late they have very little to do with redressal of naxalism (maybe in the past such policies worked, but not nowadays).

Even in a city like Hyderabad, which has relatively higher social mobilty, 'naxals' exist. Many of these goons indulge in land grabs, extortion rackets,etc. They are lying dormant ever since the current administration took charge. If Chattisgarh had IT parks, booming agriculture etc naxals would still be there, demanding their cut, all in the name of masses.

Agriculture has fallen behind in Telengana region of AP primarily due to naxalite menace. Nobody wants to grow crops when armed bandits visit your farm and steal in the name of people. The main problem being successive govts react to the problem, rather than being proactive.

Land reform is in its fifth decade. Very few people hold large tracts of land in Telengana, save outskirts of a well protected area like Hyderabad, most are medium and small landholders. By and large elections are fair if not perfect, and the lumpen-proletariat have access to representative democracy. If it has not helped, then nothing short of a communist revolution(like in Nepal) will satisfy these goons.

They do whatever they do simply because they can, and get away with such crime. Guns are easily availiable, thanks to LTTE, ISI and other suppliers. The only language these charming folks seem to understand is that of counter-insurgency. They were crushed during late seventies even when they had peaked in their popularity among the masses. No reason why it cannot be done now.