New Delhi, November 29: The government Tuesday said several Naxal outfits, including the banned CPI(Maoist), and their frontal organisations are active in Delhi.
“The CPI (Maoist) operates in Delhi through the Delhi city committee of the outfit. Besides, the CPI (Maoist), several other Left Wing Extremist groups, including CPML-New Democracy as well as CPML-Liberation, are active in Delhi,” Minister of State for Home Jitendra Singh informed Lok Sabha.
Besides, front organisations of the CPI(Maoist) like Revolutionary Democratic Front, Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners, People’s Democratic Front of India, Democratic Students Union etc., are active in Delhi, he said.
However, Singh said no inputs are available to indicate that ‘sleeper cells’ of naxalites are functional in Delhi.
“…Delhi city committee and the front organisations of CPI(Maoist) are active in Delhi. Such activities are being closely monitored,” he said.
The Minister said in 2011, one CPI(Maoist) sympathiser of Chhattisgarh was arrested from Delhi for her alleged involvement in extortion of funds from Essar group in Chhattisgarh by the CPI(Maoist).
Singh said the CPI(Maoist) and its front organisations have been making efforts to develop ties with various North-East based anti-India insurgent outfits in pursuance of their strategy to mobilise various insurgent groups under a ‘Strategic United Front’ against the Indian state.
—PTI—-