Maoists’ protest week starts today
VISAKHAPATNAM: With the Maoists calling for protest week from July 1
to protest against fake encounters, illegal arrests and surrenders by
cops, fear has gripped the Visakha Agency with tribals too scared to
even venture out to the weekly markets. This even as news of the
formation of the new division and recent visits of central committee
leaders to Visakha and East Godavari districts have sent the security
forces into a tizzy. Weekly markets at various places in the Visakha
Agency wore a deserted look on Tuesday.
While many suspected informers remained in the villages, sympathisers
and militia members did not venture out fearing arrests by cops.
According to sources, those on the Naxal hit list, including people’s
representatives and political leaders, have already shifted to safer
places fearing Maoist strikes. “The movement of Reds is visible in many
pockets in the Agency area and they might indulge in violent activity to
show their presence,” a senior police officer in the agency area told
TOI. State director general of police Jasti Venkat Ramudu met officials
of the Visakha Agency in the evening and discussed the action to be
taken to restrict the banned outfit. He, however, told media persons
that the Maoists problem in the district was under control.
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