New Delhi, January 10: The Corporate Home Minister P. Chidambaram keeps saying that the Human Rights Groups must condemn violence perpetrated by the Maoists on one hand and some intellectuals like Swapan Das Gupta and News Anchors like Arnab Goswami have even crossed the limit by discovering some un-parliamentary words like “Maoist-Terrorist” and are attempting to manufacture the consent that all Adivasis are Maoist-Terrorists and therefore they must be blown up by the military operation without looking other side of the story. The Naxal politics between the Trinmool Congress and the Left Parties have also intensified in the West Bengal.
The matter of the fact is the Central and State governments were never serious in addressing the issue of Naxalism and now when the problem is utterly intensified, they are crying foul with the clear intention of burying the failure of the entire system of governance. The government officials were busy in bagging money of the development and welfare schemes meant for the poor. The law enforcement agencies were quite active in collecting money in the police stations, check-posts and other places. And, the politicians engaged themselves in capturing power through every ways and means. Consequently, the Naxalism is growing day by day.
However, the main reason is that the so-called ‘Red Corridor’ is full of minerals, where the Adivasis have been residing for centuries. The Multi-National Companies are eyeing on the minerals of the regions andthe government is all set to sell it at the market rate. Therefore, it has signed hundreds of MoUs with these MNCs. Since, the Adivasis of these areas strongly feel that they have been betrayed, neglected and dispossessed in the name of development, industrialization and the national interest in India for last six decades after the Independence, therefore they are resisting against unjust displacement.
One sees the Naxal cry as corporate link also because there are many cases filed against the Adivasis who are raising their voices against unjust displacement but at the same time not a single case was registered against thecorporate houses, who have terrorized the Adivasis, violated the laws of the land and taken away the constitutional rights of the Adivasis.
Ironically, we live in a democratic country, where the government, the media and the other Institutions are run by the corporate houses, as a result, the rich people are always privileged and the poor are marginalized in every way. The paradox is the government promises land and forest rights through the forest right act 2006 to the Adivasis, who have been neglected, dispossessed and marginalized for years on one hand and also signs the MoUs and promotes the forceful land acquisition in the various part of the country in the name ofdevelopment.
The failure of the state, growing social inequality and un-justice delivery are the main reasons of spreading the Naxalism. Therefore, the state has no moral rights for crying foul at this moment. The conflict between the state and the Maoist will never come to an end till the marginalized people were ensured social, economic and cultural justice and also they are made stakeholders to thedevelopment and welfare schemes.
PS: 85% of indian are living under $2 a day, compared to 80% of sub-sahara africa. If this govt. can’t secure employment, people won’t have any other option but to join Naxilists.
–Agencies