Eradicate it or it will annihilate you.

The recent Darbha valley (Chattisgarh) massacre scandalized the whole nation traumatizing every denizen of India. 

 

On 25 May 2013, naxalite insurgents of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) assaulted a convoy of Indian National Congress (INC) leaders in Darbha Valley of Sukma district , Chattisgarh leading to 27 fatalities comprising of Mahendra Karma, a state minister and Congress Chattisgarh Chief Nand Kumar Patel.

But after the emerging of the Darbha Valley case, one thing which was in toto borne out and substantiated is the slack security allocated in such a sensitive area and the next thing is the complete and fiasco in the Naxal affected areas. Much talks, ingenious and sophisticated talks have been conducted and a deluge of strategic decisions have been taken but it would not be spurious to say that zero progress has been there and the situation of Chattisgarh has not ameliorated.

If we go to the numbers, then from the year 1989 to the year 2012, around 6,432 civilians have been mowed down while 2,312 security personnel have been decimated.

Still the areas under the impact of Naxalites remain rudimentary and there seems to be no progress at all. And Darbha is not an aberration. 

Some big naxal attacks are as follows:-

1. April 6, 2010 - Maoists kill around 75 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in Dantewada district of Chattisgarh. 

2.October 8, 2009: Seventeen policemen were killed in an ambush by Maoists at the Laheri police station in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra.

3. July 1, 2008: Maoist rebels carried out attacks on a police station, killing nine people, including policemen, at an outpost in Sasaram in Bihar's Rohtas district and flee with arms and ammunition. 

4. March 5, 2007: Jharkhand Mukti Morcha's Lok Sabha member Sunil Kumar Mahato shot dead by Maoists. Two of his bodyguards and a party colleague also killed in the attack while watching a football match at a village in Jamshedpur in Jharkhand.

5.  September 7, 2007: Former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Janardhan Reddy and his wife N. Rajyalakshmi escape unhurt while three Congress workers are killed in a Maoist attack in the state's Nellore district.

6. February 9, 2006: Eight Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel killed when rebels raid a warehouse of the National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) and take away explosives from a village near Bailadila in Jagdalpur in Chhattisgarh.

7.  November 13, 2005: Hundreds of activists of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) attack the police line in south Bihar's Jehanabad district.

All these incidents happened due to nothing but the lax adjustments of security forces. Incidents like these are in legion. But now it is the high time when the security forces need to rise up and notwithstanding giving lame excuses take the onus of safeguarding the people as well as making the naxalism come to a halt.

The failures at Darbha were not simple instances of deficiency of coordination but there was tremendous lacunae in the policy making  procedure of the governments (both centre and the state). A relatively small and poorly armed security contingent was attacked by a poorly equipped small army cadre. For some two hours the small armed forces group fought with the Maoists and when they were overrun by the ammunition Maoists took the cover of the area. After the shooting Maoists shot down Mahendra Karma, founder of Salwa Judum 50 times and stabbed him around 78 times while the Congress Chattisgarh Chief Nand Kumar Patel’s son was beheaded and he himself was shot many times by the merciless naxalites.

This attack is really reprehensible but we should mind our businesses by just condemning the attacks we need to make improvement at every field. Improvement is the necessity of time. The barbarity of attack (Maoists danced on the dead body of Mahendra Karma) is not the works of revolutionaries. We need to deal with them with the iron fist. We need to emend our systems in order to ensure the safety of the people of Chattisgarh as well as the integrity of the province. Work is needed to be done and rearrangement of security forces for better security is what we want contemporarily.

Andhra Pradesh, the state which was most affected by the Maoists attacks followed a great policy which led the diminishing attacks and the problem was tackled up to a huge extent. Andhra Pradesh did the same thing that Punjab did to tackle the Khalistani movement and this thing really helped Andhra Pradesh.

The other states affected by the barbarity and viciousness of the naxalites need to follow the suit to progress.

Naxalism is a great concern and we need to do something to abolish, eradicate and obliterate this grandiose problem and to protect our people. It is the right time for us to rectify our mistakes so as to annihilate this problem.

God bless India.

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