RAIPUR: Outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoists) have reiterated their call for boycott of elections in tribal Bastar region of Chhattisgarh alleging that security forces deployed in large numbers for the polls were unleashing terror on people to thwart its campaign for boycott of elections. “Road opening parties (ROP), round the clock patrolling, police pickets everywhere, mobile check posts, regular combing operations, fake encounters, raids on villages, illegal arrests and implicating tribals in false cases have become order of the day”, CPI (Maoist) Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee secretary Rammana said in an SMS message circulated to media in the state capital.
Claiming that students were forced to vacate residential hostels to facilitate accommodation of security forces, he said studies in almost all schools in the interiors have been affected. Ramanna exhorted employees, progressive and democratic intellectuals to boycott elections and extend every kind of support to the peoples
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struggle going on in Dandakaranya. “Let us forge ahead undeterred for
genuine freedom on the basis of self-reliance by intensifying peoples
war and defeating operation green hunt”, Rammanna said. There are also
unconfirmed reports that Maoists have given a call for bandh in the
interior areas of Bastar but there is no independent confirmation either
from the police or from the rebels.
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