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Launching attacks on villagers, politicians, polling officials and security forces before elections, issuing threats to election officials by asking them to not report to the polling booths and distributing posters with vote boycott calls have been part of Naxalite strategies for long
Naxalites have killed a 40-year-old man in poll-bound Chhattisgarh, accusing him of being a police informer, and warned election officials not to visi
"In the last four decades, they (Naxalitess) were responsible for the death of more than 1,700 innocent civilians and destruction of public properties worth crores of rupees. The native population of Bastar is frustrated and annoyed with all this destructive attitude of Naxals and they are looking forward to a positive environment," said a top official.
Naxalites strangled the man, Muchaki Linga, with a rope on the intervening night of November 1 and November 2 and threw his body on the roadside between Galgam and Nadpalli villages in Bijapur district
Every vote matters in Narayanpur seat which Cong won last time by a narrow margin. But parties admit reluctance to access region, particularly after killing of BJP leaders recently.