Updated Feb 03, 2021 | 11:04 IST
Several central ministers have repeatedly said that the farmers’ protest has been infiltrated by “Leftist and Maoist elements . Farmers protesting at Delhi-UP border | Photo Credit: AP
New Delhi: The banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) has likened the three newly-enacted farm laws with the British-era Rowlatt Act and asked its frontal organisations to continue fighting alongside the protesting farmers, a report said on Wednesday.
The outlawed CPI (Maoist) has issued several statements in support of the protests again the three agri laws, thus appearing to confirm the central probe agencies’ suspicion of Maoists’ involvement in the ongoing farmers’ protest.
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Three slum dwellers from Bijapur have said they pay the municipality Rs 300 to Rs 900 annually for the public land they have been squatting on since being evicted from their village by the erstwhile Salwa Judum, a state-backed anti-Maoist militia, in 2005. One of the three men, Ashok Minz, said the Maoists had killed his father that year.
Maoist involved in 50 cases nabbed
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‘Maoist leaders coercing people to work for outlawed outfit’
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‘Maoist leaders coercing people to work for outlawed outfit’
A “Maoist courier,” who was allegedly involved in around 50 cases of violence during his stint as a dalam member of the banned CPI (Maoist) in the areas straddling the Telangana-Chhattisgarh border in the past, was arrested from Bodanelli forest area in Charla mandal on Wednesday.
According to the police, the accused, identified as Podium Jayaram alias Guruji, 30, of a remote village on the border mandal, was nabbed after a brief chase by a combing police party when he tried to escape along with some Maoist militia members in the forest area near Chintaguppa late on Wednesday afternoon.