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Maoists 'all-India shutdown' hits normal life | The 48-hour 'all India shutdown' called by the Maoists to protest the killing of their leader Cherukuri Rajkumar
alias Azad affected normal life in the five States of Orissa, Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal and Chhattisgarh. In Orissa, the Naxal affected areas such as Koraput,
Rayagada, Gajapati, Malkangri and Sundergadh have been placed on high alert. The
public transport here remained off the roads due to the shutdown, which created
a lot of troubles for the daily commuters. "Due to this shutdown there is no transport.
People are facing a lot of difficulty," said Ganesh Mahato, a resident of Rayagada.
The police here have deployed personnel in full strength and are carrying out
extensive checks of all the vehicles entering Rayagada region since midnight.
"With help of CRPF, we are doing a massive checking and we have deployed police
on all the exit and entry routes of Rayagada. We are also carrying out specific
combing projects in the suspected areas," said Anoop Krishna, Superintendent of
Police, Rayagada. In Bihar's Patna city, Minister of State for Railways KH Muniyappa
addressing senior officers of East Central Railway mentioned that to find a concrete
solution to the security problem of the railways in the Naxal affected areas of
India, the Union Home Ministry has convened a meeting of the Chief Ministers of
all Naxal-affected States. "We are continuously making our efforts to address
this problem and we hope we will try to solve this problem. And, I appeal to the
people this is your property. You have given blood and sweat to produce this project
for last so many years," said Muniyappa. "This has to be protected and State has
to cooperate, State police has to cooperate where we have to address the attacks
of the Maoists. That is why the honourable Home Minister has called a meeting
of the Chief Ministers of Naxal-affected States," he added. Andhra Pradesh police
reportedly killed Azad in an encounter in the Jogapur forest area of Andhra Pradesh's
Adilabad District early on Friday morning last week, while he was attempting to
cross into neighbouring Maharashtra. Azad was a member of the central committee
of the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) and carried a reward
of 1.2 million rupees on his head. Azad, who did his MTech in Warangal, was linked
to the Maoist movement for more than 35 years and used to write articles for magazines
on Maoist ideology. There are reports that Azad was assigned the task of revising
the Maoist movement in India. Maoist attacks have increased this year, especially
after the Government launched a coordinated security offensive involving tens
of thousands of police trying to flush out the rebels from their jungle hideouts
in central and eastern India. |
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