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I
am fearful to learn that we are yet to solve the
problem of insurgency of Naxals in Bihar. Do we
know what their grievances and apprehensions
are? If killing is what they believe in to solve
their problems, then the use of force is
necessary to subdue them. Otherwise, the
reasonable method is to talk to them. On the
contrary, Naxals seem to be the amalgamation of
various renegade people that use the name Naxal
to take revenge of personal hostility in the
guise of political colour. If they have
political agenda, they must be reminded that
killing of innocent people has never served
political purpose throughout the history.
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Unfortunately the basis of Naxalism
is armed struggle. Not only in Bihar
but also in Andhra Pradesh and other
state, Naxalites use most of the
time the violent method to oppose
and express themselves. They by
means of Naxal guidelines and the
ideology use the means which are not
peaceful protest.
Today they are called Naxals and
before independence such people were
called “Krantikari”.
I agree with the author that
violence is not going to solve their
problem. Here the Government has
greater role than anyone else.
Understanding their needs and
fulfilling them will help bringing
them in the mainstream of society.
Today they fight for basic
facilities and things like education
and sanitation in their areas. But
also it is fact that some demand can
be filled and some cannot. It will
be interest of all that, those
demands which can be fulfilled must
be fulfilled. The missing factor is
the trust. They do not trust
governance, they do not trust
judiciary and they do not consider
themselves part of the same society.
If they have to trust the judiciary,
they must see that culprits dealt
properly within the system and then
they need not pick the laws in their
hand.
It is no wonder that they are even
used for political purpose as author
has pointed out. We cannot ignore
the fact even they are not seeing
their promises getting kept. What
started as Telangana struggle as
mass of people a movement is still
continuing and now it is being used
as vote bank to serve the political
purpose.
All these things must be changed, to
bring the trust in them about the
existing system and help them
realize that even the existing
system can be changed by only being
part of system and not from outside.
- Onkar Nath - Dec. 16, 2007 |
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