06-20-2006, 06:32 AM
Left's tacit support for naxals exposes "their two faces : BJP
New Delhi, June 20. (UNI): <b>Taking strong exception to the Left party's demand for withdrawing the Naga and Mizo battalions deployed to contain violence in Chhattisgarh, the BJP on Monday, said that the demand had exposed the "two faces" of the Communist parties.
Reacting to the demand of the Left parties to seek a ban on the 'Salva Judam', an all party backed tribal campaign against the naxal groups, BJP spokesman Prakash Javadekar said although the Left parties said that they would raise the issues of rising prices of essential commodities, hike in petrol prices and other deviations from the Common Minimum Programme, these issues were only "Casually discussed without any concrete assurance, but they chose to discuss Salva Judum and deployment against naxalites and not the problems of the common man".
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The BJP demands that the Centre should deploy more forces to fight the rising naxal menace threatening to carve out a red corridor transcending eight states from the Nepal border to Karnataka, he said.
Mr Javadekar claimed it was the Congress' unilateral ceasefire in Andhra Pradesh for one year without insisting the naxals give up their arms, which created problems for the nearby States of Chhatisgarh and Jharkhand, where the Ultras had regrouped and consolidated. About 379 civilians were killed and 95 police and military personnel were killed in the last two years, he noted.
He said Left's opposition to Salva Judum stemmed from the fact that the movement in Chhattisgarh was led by leading Congress leader Mahesh Karma, himself a former Communist.
"We strongly condemn the demand for banning Salva Judum, which believes in the principles of non-violence. This sort of playing around with security is not in national interest", he said.
The BJP spokesman said the stand taken by the Left Parties was very different from what they had taken in West Bengal, where they were fighting the ultra left insurgency themselves.
The tribals of Bastar were fed up with the violence of naxals and and had devised their own way of fighting naxals effectively. Thousands of villages had joined the movement, which is also spreading to Warrangal district of Andhra Pradesh, the hub of naxal violence.
The Centre should abandon its policy to treat the naxal problem as a law and order issue but should come out with a comprehensive national policy to check the scourge, Mr Javadekar stressed.
New Delhi, June 20. (UNI): <b>Taking strong exception to the Left party's demand for withdrawing the Naga and Mizo battalions deployed to contain violence in Chhattisgarh, the BJP on Monday, said that the demand had exposed the "two faces" of the Communist parties.
Reacting to the demand of the Left parties to seek a ban on the 'Salva Judam', an all party backed tribal campaign against the naxal groups, BJP spokesman Prakash Javadekar said although the Left parties said that they would raise the issues of rising prices of essential commodities, hike in petrol prices and other deviations from the Common Minimum Programme, these issues were only "Casually discussed without any concrete assurance, but they chose to discuss Salva Judum and deployment against naxalites and not the problems of the common man".
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The BJP demands that the Centre should deploy more forces to fight the rising naxal menace threatening to carve out a red corridor transcending eight states from the Nepal border to Karnataka, he said.
Mr Javadekar claimed it was the Congress' unilateral ceasefire in Andhra Pradesh for one year without insisting the naxals give up their arms, which created problems for the nearby States of Chhatisgarh and Jharkhand, where the Ultras had regrouped and consolidated. About 379 civilians were killed and 95 police and military personnel were killed in the last two years, he noted.
He said Left's opposition to Salva Judum stemmed from the fact that the movement in Chhattisgarh was led by leading Congress leader Mahesh Karma, himself a former Communist.
"We strongly condemn the demand for banning Salva Judum, which believes in the principles of non-violence. This sort of playing around with security is not in national interest", he said.
The BJP spokesman said the stand taken by the Left Parties was very different from what they had taken in West Bengal, where they were fighting the ultra left insurgency themselves.
The tribals of Bastar were fed up with the violence of naxals and and had devised their own way of fighting naxals effectively. Thousands of villages had joined the movement, which is also spreading to Warrangal district of Andhra Pradesh, the hub of naxal violence.
The Centre should abandon its policy to treat the naxal problem as a law and order issue but should come out with a comprehensive national policy to check the scourge, Mr Javadekar stressed.