Where There Is No Will ; for a Ban to Be Effective, Determination has to Be Matched by Reliable Intelligence and Concerted Action.
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Left wing extremism is the biggest security threat to the country. We cannot sleep in peace until this scourge is firmly dealt with."Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Five years and several hundred lives after the prime minister told a chief ministers' conclave to buck up to face the challenge from Left ultras, Home Minister P. Chidambaram last week declared the CPI (Maoist) a terrorist organisation and announced the Government's decision to ban it. The move was more to prove a political point than to achieve real tactical gain.See the full content of this document
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Where There Is No Will ; for a Ban to Be Effective, Determination has to Be Matched by Reliable Intelligence and Concerted Action.
The Maoists had been holding Lalgarh to ransom and the CPI(M)- led West Bengal Government appeared to be dithering in acting against them. In a meeting with West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya last weekend, Chidambaram had requested him to declare the outfit as an unlawful association as had been done by other Naxal-affected states.
The move expectedly met with resistance from the West Bengal Government and senior leaders of the Left parties, who said that ...See the full content of this document
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