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Kobad Ghandy confirms Maoists link to Nepal | The interrogation of top Maoist leader Kobad Ghandy, currently in custody of Delhi Police's Special
Cell, on Sunday confirmed the Nepal link to the Maoist movement. According to
sources, the interrogation of Ghandy has revealed the close ties the Maoist leadership
has developed with their counterparts in Nepal . In his statement, Ghandy talks
of four visits he made to Nepal along with some other CPI (Maoist) leaders between
2002 and 2006. He also refers to a visit in 2002 by two persons from the Philippines
, who provided arms training to Maoist cadre in jungle warfare. Ghandy has also
revealed details of a 12-day meeting held in November 2007 in a Jharkhand forest,
attended by all top Naxal leaders, where resolutions were passed to create large-scale
violence throughout India , target VIPs and to lead a mass movement in and around
Lalgarh, Purulia, Bankura. Arrested on September 20, 2009 , he has been booked
under various sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Act,
2008. Ghandy is a politburo member of the banned Communist Party of India-Maoist
and worked for the party in Maharashtra , Andhra Pradesh , Jharkhand and Madhya
Pradesh . He also played an important role in fostering the development of the
front's organisations. In 1994, he was allegedly active in floating a forum named
the All India People's Resistance Forum. |
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