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Responding
to recent arrests of senior leaders of
the Communist Party of India (Maoist), Naxals blasted railway tracks, kidnapped
railway employees, destroyed
electricity feeder lines, and railway
station, near
Gaya.
The
federal government responded saying
that it will institute “concrete and
stern” action to stem the “key
internal security concern.” Its plan
is to provide modern weaponry to
states and intelligence agencies.
Once
again, the Home Ministry has responded
in a cavalier fashion to a serious
crisis that is eating the Indian
nation from inside. While it claims to
arm the security agencies fighting the
terrorists, it has not approved
budgets aimed at improving the
intelligence network. Its poster state
of Andhra Pradesh (AP) depicting how
soft healing touches can work was
blown up with recent kidnapping,
attacks, and murder in Chhattisgarh by
terrorists based out of Andhra Pradesh
[AP Messes up Naxal Fight]. Its
document on fighting Naxals is an
apologetic document created in a hurry
to avoid inconvenient questions in the
Parliament. The main strategy seems to
be to pursue the failed policy of
arming local villagers with outdated
weapons to fight ruthless terrorists
armed with AK-47s. |
