INTRODUCTION
1. The naxalite peasant movement which started from the unknown non-descript village of naxalbari in North Bengal in the late 1960s, has now become a powerful military movement engulfing 170 districts in 15 states. In over 55 districts, naxalites and the People’s war group (PWG) or Maoists or Left wing extremists (LWE) as they may be called, run parallel governments. While the LWEs have assumed a Robin Hood mantle, they often behave more like hoodlums resorting, to extortion, kidnapping for ransom and dastardly acts of violence. The philosophy of upliftment of the poor through a mass movement has more or less degenerated mito a game of power and money.
IDEOLOGY
2. Naxlites are not secessiomsts. Their aim is to overthrow what they call an unjust socio-economic system. But they are in no hurry to achieve their ideological aims as long as they exhort enough money. Corrupt politicians, policemen and civil servants have made their own adjustments with these groups. A “live and let live” attitude is multually beneficial to all of them. Who knows how much money goes to the extremists and how much goes to others. The real sufferers are the very people for whom the extremists are waging this war against the state. The root cause for the rise in the left extremism is the inability of the states to address the many genuine grievances of the people. The gap between the unrealistic expectation, filled by popular theorists and their actual fulfillment has increased and is further increasing day by day. The bitterness of angry your man against the prevailing unjust socio-economic system is spilling over. The older generation is not unsympathetic to them. An education system that produces unemployment. Pressure on land has made the task of survival on agriculture more difficult. A callous district administration, a clogged judicial system and feudal attitude have compounded the problem. The land disputes have multiplied, but the land record and the judicial system to settle them is in disarray.
SUGGESTED MEASURES FOR EMPLOYMENT OF STATE POLICE
3. The state police has to emerge as winners. A revamp is definitely needed. Foremost, States must distinguish between personnel to be employed for protective operation against the LWE and those to be employed for normal law and order duties. The specialised Greyhounds force has already been set up in Andhra Pradesh other affected State must follow the same. The other suggested measures are: -
(a) Establishment of self sufficient and adequately secure police posts in a grid pattern. Such a deployment will also instill confidence amongst the locals, primarily among those who do not support the movement and the fence sitters.
(b) Provision of reliable communications and radio as stand by.
(c) Mobility.
(d) Modern equipment and clothing.
(e) Training to imbibe a high standard of discipline and motivation.
(f) Non partisan attitude among the police force.
(g) A good logistic support for the police forces, not forgetting a lucrative allowance and most important, a reliable medical back up and terminal benefits for fatal or invalid cases.
CONCLUSION
4. The Naxists of Nepal has joined the main steam politics. How did this happen. Simple, once the king lost his autocratic power which was the main demand of Nanists, peace more or less has returned to the Himalayan country. Therefore, it is but obvious that once the basic demands of just socio-economic order if established, normality be assured. The obvious solution is that the elected governments in the affected areas keeping local sensitivities in mind without indulging in partisan politics must be fairly functioning. Once this happened, we will soon see the light at the end of the tunnel.
By
Col MZU Siddiquie,SM
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