[Reader-list] The Naxalites overreached

[Pawan Durani]

http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indus-calling/entry/naxalites-in-delhi

Seventy-six jawans who were on duty to fight the antinational and
barbaric Communist terrorists were killed in an ambush and the home
ministry says "there was an element of failure".

This is not the time for a blame game. I wrote before too, "Support
Chidambaram's war", though the home minister dithered in between and
gave wrong signals to the Naxalites, hoping that they would listen to
him and his badly produced ads. In a way, the Indian polity helps
fissiparous tendencies. It's mired in taking revenge on Amitabh
Bachchan and making a tamasha of a nikah, which is strictly a matter
between two interested persons. Such a polity can issue carbon copies
of the previous statements of sham condemnation but can't instil
confidence in the citizens and the security forces. Ask Raman Singh,
the brave face CM of Chhattisgarh, who has been struggling hard to
tackle the Naxalite menace amid a volley of  attacks by Dilliwala
Naxalites, who accused him of being harsh on the barbarians, and
almost killed his Salwa Judum through false allegations.

So far the government hasn't spoken about taking the war on the
Communist terrorists to its logical end. Neither has it announced a
free hand to the security persons to find, flush out and annihilate
the cowardly terrorists who have become a bigger threat to the nation
than the Pakistan-supported jihadis. It should be doing that
immediately. Home secretary Gopal Pillay has rightly questioned "not
only the CPI (Maoist) but also those who speak on their behalf and
chastise the government' as to what was the motive behind the attack
and what is the message the CPI (Maoist) intends to convey". The
"jholawala" supporters of the Naxalites should also be booked for
instigating murders and sedition.

They are all Communists. They swear by Mao, Lenin and Stalin. Their
loyalties are extraterritorial. Their sources of inspiration - all of
them have smeared their hands in the blood of innocent people - from
Lenin, Stalin and Mao to Pol Pot. And they have thrived so far in
spite of having killed more than 6,000 Indian citizens and security
personnel because there is a powerful lobby in Delhi which portrays
them as revolutionaries and puts pressure on the government not to
take any stern action. When a publishing house like Penguin chooses to
publish a book of so-called poems of a jail inmate, a known supporter
and the voice of the mass-killer Naxalites, Varavara Rao, what can be
expected of the morale of those who are supposed to take on the
barbarians to protect the Constitution? There is a socially
desensitized section of the neo-rich enveloped in Anglo-Saxon
traditions that has taken upon the "responsibility" to romanticize the
butchers and win dollar awards.

They are the writers, filmmakers and poster boys of the glitterati
that find it fashionable to safeguard Maoists and have them as an
acceptable phenomenon in a society that's described as (a positioning
to justify the murders) 'ridden with corruption, administrative
lethargy, rich class insensitive towards the poor and the
downtrodden', etc. So the logic is, if there would be so much of
political and administrative injustice to a large number of poor, they
would, rise in revolt. Yeah, sounds good. Doesn't it? Poor revolting
against the rich, burning their bungalows and establishing a just,
fair and Communist reign of the proletariat!

Like they did in Moscow and saw the disintegration of the Soviet
Union? Like they did in Cambodia and saw the mass murder of 25% of the
population? Like they did in China and saw millions killed and
ultimately a Communist regime giving way to the market forces? There
is not a single place on this earth, including the haven of the Red
revolutionaries West Bengal where they have been able to establish a
small corner that portrays the model success of their revolution. Bad
roads, dillapidated schools, no industrialization, poverty-struck
labour class and the fattened Commissars. That's the end result of
their struggle. Naxals too become rogue armies, blackmailing gullible
villagers and their kids to join their ranks, destroy schools, public
health dispensaries and roads. They are, in the words of Chidambaram,
just criminals.

This must make Indian citizens to sit up and ask the media and the
government some inconvenient questions. Did the Sania-Shoaib
controversy really merit front page when the nation's foreign minister
was in Beijing negotiating the country's most sensitive issues? Did
Penguin do the right thing by publishing the so-called poems of a
barbaric supporter of the mass murderers, giving him and the book a
halo of revolutionary spirit, thus according the criminals a social
sanction. Those who mock at the patriotic people and heroes like
Savarkar, decorate gun runners who kill citizens with a sadistic
pleasure? That lady, Arundhati they say is her name, with a penchant
for laughing at the beheading of security personnel like Francis and
eulogising in her inimitable de-Indianised style the savagery of the
Naxals must be charged with sedition and supporting mass annihilators.

Who were those seventy-six killed by the Naxal? And who felt happiness
seeing their dead bodies? Who were the bereaved families and who were
negotiating electoral alliances and secret pacts with the killers? The
rebels or the antinational insurgent groups called Naxal, Maoist and
Red revolutionaries have been working in 220 districts in 20 states
and the government has established a special cell to monitor and
resist them. They created a Red Corridor from Tirupati to
Pashupatinath. Help from China to Nepalese Maoists to them has been
suspected by Indian intelligence agencies. They are working against
India and it's a war, in real sense. Still the rebels prove weightier
than the patriotic jawans, who had nothing in their mind except to
protect the citizens and the Indian constitution? Why? So far this is
a skeleton of some official statistics describing killings of Indians
by Naxals:

1996: 156 deaths
1997: 428 deaths
1998: 270 deaths
1999: 363 deaths
2000: 50 deaths
2001: 100+ deaths
2002: 140 deaths
2003: 451 deaths
2004: 500+ deaths
2005: 700+ deaths
2006: 750 deaths
2007: 650 deaths
2008: 794 deaths
2009: 1,134 deaths

Why the sacred forces of the state die like cattle unsung and often
insulted like it happened in the case of Inspector Mohan Lal Sharma
and pilgrimages are organized to the homes of the terrorists in
Azamgarh but none to the homes of the patriotic soldiers? Why it helps
to be a terrorist in Delhi to remain safe and have civil rights
committees to organise interviews in magazines and channels and its
often embarrassingly deadly to be soldier, with none coming to hear
their woes and interview the mother of the martyred?

It is this Naxalism that needs to be crushed. They don't remove
poverty through guns. They use poor to help their luxuries.