news from CPI (Maoist)

 

Statement:

We strongly condemns these indiscriminate and unannounced aerial attacks of Central Reserve Police Forces (CRPF) Director General (DG) Gyanendra Pratap Singh on 20th January 2026  attacks on the Maoists in the Saranda forests, since 21st January 2026 helicopter gunships have begun arbitrary and unannounced firing on the villages of Baliba, Tinilposi and Digge and the Babudera forests for hours every day. 

The lack of any information to the adivasi population of the forest villages before these sudden aerial attacks and indiscriminate firing has terrorized them. Many adivasis are now fleeing their villages in terror.

We condemn this heinous cowardice and barbaric stream of killings... extend the red salute to these beloved 17 comrades and pay them a tearful homage on behalf of the committee.n the other hand, on 22nd January 2026 the CoBRA 209 unit, Jharkhand Jaguars and the District Police Force at the Chotanagra police station area hatched a coordinated plot by setting GPS traps and poisoning the food of 20 comrades stationed between the Bahada and Kumti villages of Saranda forests, successfully trapping and attacking them. In the resulting encounter, 17 comrades including Central Committee member and Secretary of the Bihar-Jharkhand Special Area Committee Com. Patiram Maji alias Analda alias Ramesh and Orissa State Committee Member Com. Lalchand Hembram alias Anmol alias Sushant were martyred. The survivors are being executed one by one. 

 We call on all sympathetic organizations, revolutionary and popular organizations, people, peasants, workers, students, youth, intellectuals and respected citizens to strengthen their resistance with great efforts against these unannounced aerial attacks and string of murders.

We denounce police action a heinous act of barbarity because the police and Cobra units have often sent GPS trackers to attack our rest stops and camps. Some attacks have resulted in grave losses while others have been defused. In other cases, many soldiers of the CoBRA 209 unit have fallen prey to their own GPS traps. They also resorted to sending food and medicines laced with poison. While our comrades have also fallen prey to these schemes, we have usually been able to save them. This time as well, these disgusting and heinous means of murder have been used. This is why casualty rates of first 10, then 15, then 16, and finally 17 individuals are being reported. These cruel authorities will likely also torture and then execute our surviving three comrades who are in their custody.

With revolutionary greetings,

Red Salute., 

Azad, Bihar-Jharkhand Special Area Committee,