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[5/11] Left Wing Extremism: Challenges in dealing with Naxalites

 1. Expansion in adjoining areas due to hard combat:
Hard combat against the Naxals pushes them out temporarily but they use other states to regroup and rearm. This can be associated with the Andhra Pradesh model, where the intensive use of Greyhounds had led to a lot of spill over to other states.
2. Expansion due to increasing association with Anti-state forces:
New territory in new states may result in a corridor for Naxals to collaborate with other insurgent groups who are essentially ideologically different but are anti-state. There has been increasing collaboration between the Naxals and the Pro-Azadi leaders in J&K and ULFA training  the naxal cadres.
3. Expansion of Naxal activities due to international collaboration:
The likely collaboration with international maoist movements, may give it a much more dangerous dimension, to tackle which India seems to be unprepared. There is also an increasing threat of rising terror outfits’ support to the naxal operations in India.
 4. Administrative hurdles in dealing with LWE:
  • Poor infrastructure, lack of communication and shortage of manpower
  • A virtual parallel government run by Maoists in Dandakaranya region
  • Poor coordination among various state police forces
  • Lack of proper understanding between the central and state forces

5. Intellectual support to naxalism:
Top intellectuals like Arundhati Roy and Binayak Sen regularly support naxalism, advocating an egalitarian society, human rights and tribal rights. But use of violent means cannot be supported to achieve a noble cause in a democratic setup. Rather than a blind support, the intellectuals should also encourage Naxals to eschew violence, fight elections, join mainstream society and learn the art of give and take of democratic bargaining without aggression.
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