NAXALISM

Naxalism in the past few years has emerged as one of the most important issues of national internal security threat. It is not more than 8-10 years or so that the naxalism factor manifested itself in the Indian political scene drastically. As I had mentioned in my first article that PM Manmohan Singh himself confessed the problem of naxalism as the biggest threat to Indian democracy but later on could not suggest a solution or a way of sorting out the issue. Meetings are done, reports are prepared, journal are issued in public and all other formalities are done just to make a fool out of the public.

 How can the government step aside of their responsibilities to confirm the security of its nation and citizens? It seems that the government is motivated more financially rather than democratically. Their only aim is to remain in power, that’s it. I  am sorry to say this, but its an unwanted and hard to digest truth for the government. It is not only the government who is at fault in this regard. We also are no less accountable for the prevailing situation and the lackadaisical approach of the government. No question are raised, no agendas are put up, nothing. ‘If I am not getting affected, why shall I interfere’ kind of attitude of the public further deteriorates the situation and as such the whole process is repeated if some accident takes place somewhere, someday.

It is said in media that ‘to be popular you have to remain in controversies’ and thus how could some of our politicians miss the golden opportunity such as these to come in limelight. One can easily imagine the power of the naxal groups when they killed 76 CRPF jawans in protest against home minister P. Chidambaram’s visit to dantewada.

A couple of months ago near about 80 trucks full of explosives were found missing out of which only 10 or 11 were ultimately found. It is supposed (remember- it is still supposed and there is no conformity) that these trucks are now with some naxal group. The results thus could be very devastating & destructive. We must try to learn something from countries like U.S.A. Forget States, take the example of neighbouring country Sri Lanka. It took not more than 5 days of military operation to wipe out the most dangerous terrorist organisation LTTE (according to U.N.O.).

 

The same LTTE which was responsible for the death of one of the most dynamic prime ministers India has ever witnessed Mr. Rajiv Gandhi.

My motive behind creating this background is to raise a question and seek answer from the readers of this article and the public in general.

How far is all this going to continue?

Are we bound to live like this?

What shall be our role in doing away with the issue?

What has the government been doing till now and what do we expect it to do in future?

The answer to these questions according to me lies in some other questions which needs to be answered urgently.

Who are naxalites and whom do they represent?

What do they want?

Is it possible to wipe them out without accepting their demands?

If not, what is the alternative?

However I leave it entirely upto the government to decide the solutions to the issue as they are more responsible for this situation. But what I personally feel is that till now governments role has been poor and surprisingly it seems that they want this kind of situation to persist. Only God and they themselves know the reason behind this, but one thing is for sure- if we don’t initiate it from our side, the government would never intervene in between.

With this I would like to bring an end, rather open the discussion for all to participate, suggest their views and opinions in this regard.

Shantanu Mishra

Student 3^rd Sem

Centre of Media Studies

University of Allahabad