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In a four-page note and an audio clipping sent to the media, the Maoists have claimed responsibility for the May 25 attack on a Congress convoy in Chhattisgarh that left 24 people dead. The note, sent by a Maoists spokesperson from Dandakaranya, says a People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army or PLGA detachment carried out the attack on the convoy and adds that senior Congress leaders Mahendra Karma, Nand Kumar Patel and V C Shukla were its prime targets. While Mr Karma and Mr Patel were killed in the attack, Mr Shukla was critically injured. He is being treated at a hospital in Gurgaon. In the note, the Maoists have blamed Nand Kumar Patel for approving Operation Green Hunt and allowing central forces in anti-Naxal operations while he was the state Home Minister. They have also stated why they wanted to “punish” Mahendra Karma and have enlisted his alleged “misdeeds”.
Maoist have blamed Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh, the Congress and the BJP for their “anti-people policies.” The Maoists also condemned PM Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi, BJP chief Rajnath Singh and Chief Minister Raman Singh for calling the incident an attack on democracy and alleged that they did not speak “when innocent people were killed by the state.”
Through the note, the Maoists have also put forward seven key demands. They are seeking the withdrawal of paramilitary forces from Dandakaranya and want Operation Green Hunt to end. They have also demanded that revolutionaries and “innocent” tribals should be released from jail unconditionally. At about 3:30 pm on Saturday, around 250 Maoists struck a convoy of 25 cars carrying Congress leaders and others, who were returning from the party’s Parivartan rally in Sukma.
They triggered landmine blasts and then rained bullets at the convoy. The two dozen-odd security personnel traveling with the convoy returned fire but soon ran out of ammunition. The Maoists then surrounded the convoy, took away the mobile phones of the leaders and then shot them in cold blood. The attack is being investigated by the elite National Investigation Agency or NIA. This is the first Maoist assault that the agency is probing.