Singh said, “They
expressed wonder as to why Uttarakhand had not figured on the list which
was placed in the Lok Sabha by the union home ministry on Wednesday.
The list carries the names of 106 districts of 10 states, including
Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Odisha, Telangana,
Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal. Intelligence officials said the
threat in Uttarakhand was more alive as the state shares its borders
with Uttar Pradesh, which is on the red list, and Nepal, which is one of
the hubs Left extremism. The officials referred to the recent incident
in Almora where Maoists had tagged posters at an under-construction site
of international school to assert their presence.
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