Green Hunt, Red Hunter

         1000 armed men attack CRPF personnel, and police didn’t have a clue! Local people stop security forces to enter Lalgarh for several days. These two incidents do not only strongly indicate the failure of police espionage system and unpopularity of administration but horrifyingly indicate the public support to Naxalites. Strangely, Naxalites are closer to public than police sleuths and babus are. But, the problem is still being treated as law and order one, and not as socio-economic problem. The Maoism is spreading in the areas where, there is a large disparity in the distribution of resources. Where, the light of the so called development is not reaching. What ever they call it Maoism or Naxalism but I believe, this a resentment against unequal distribution of resources and a byproduct of selfish vote-bank politics. At first instance Naxalites sounded good to me, as they project themselves as ones fighting for poor and the cause of equality, but then I thought about the route, they espoused, and I realized, it is not good, otherwise Kanu sanyal and Charu Majoomdar would be more than Gandhi ji. An armed struggle often looses its way. And there is news of Naxalite leaders living luxury lifestyle.

       To quote my father, “When Yog goes to Europe and America and returns as Yoga we adopt it!” Naxalites also can carry on the 'Made in China' stamped ideology of Mao and when the right time comes, for them, they can adopt the Gandhian ways. And in the mean time, I wish, God confers wisdom on to government and it treats the problem as socio-economic one, and starts its solution in correct direction. And last but not the least I wish, may the souls of martyr soldiers rest in peace!