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<b>Message in seized documents: Dalits to be Maoists' driving force</b>

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"Strategy and Tactics", a Naxal policy document issued by the state committee of CPI (Maoist) to its cadres, seized immediately after the formation of CPI (Maoist) in 2004 following the merger of erstwhile People's War Group and Maoist Communist Centre in 2004, says, "The Dalits and Scheduled Castes should be treated as a special social section that is peculiar to the obnoxious caste-ridden Indian society. Though a vast majority among them belongs to poor and landless peasantry and to the proletariat and other wage-earning sections, they are also the victims of social oppression and upper caste atrocities. While mobilising the vast masses of the Dalits who constitute around 17.5 per cent of the Indian population into the agrarian revolution, we must also lay special emphasis upon the task of fighting all forms of social oppression and caste discrimination practiced by upper castes against them."
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