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MUMBAI: The arrest of suspected Naxal activist Pintu Jawahar Paswan from Mulund on Friday indicates that Naxals are setting up base in urban areas and this has become a cause of concern for politicians. Paswan, who was active in Jharkhand, was employed as a worker in a factory in Mulund. A week ago, Nagpur Congress MP Vilas Muttemwar had raised the issue of emergence of Naxal activists in urban areas.
“Naxal activists are infiltrating security agencies and factories as workers to spread their network in urban areas,” he had said while urging the Centre and the state to make police verification essential to prevent them from doing so. Replying to a question raised by Muttemwar, Union minister of state for home RPN Singh said there was no intelligence to suggest that Naxal organizations were infiltrating security agencies and factories. But a few cases had come to the notice of the Centre where the CPI (Maoist) cadres had taken up jobs in urban areas primarily to earn a livelihood and evade arrest.
“The front organizations of the banned CPI (Maoist) party and organizations sympathetic to the outfit have been supporting the cause of workers employed in factories. Their objective is to exploit the situation to gain a foothold among the working class,” he said.
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