Kartik Lokhande's blog

Exactly 10 years ago, in Andhra Pradesh, they came out in the open responding to the offer of talks. Obviously, as was their intention, talks failed. For, their main agenda was to utilise the opportunity to regroup and emerge into what was soon termed as ‘the biggest internal security threat’ by none other than the then Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh. Since September 21, 2004, the country has seen emergence of Communist Party of India (Maoist) as the most violent internal security menace. ‘The Hitavada’ Chief Reporter Kartik Lokhande takes a look at 10 years of internal security scenario vis-a-vis Maoist threat and how the Government and various sections of the society responded to it. “There is no doubt that armed struggle is the principal form of struggle in people’s war. But people’s war doesn’t mean fighting using guns alone. This is a form which would come to the fore depending on the level of consciousness of the people and the response of the state. We consid...