Ostarcize those romanticizing Maoist violence: Congress

NEW DELHI - The Congress Wednesday accused the Left of transplanting “a foreign ideology predicated in violence” and said those romanticizing or legitimizing Maoist violence should be ostracized.

The Left in India cannot run away from its historical responsibility of having transplanted a foreign ideology predicated in violence, Congress spokesman Manish Tewari told reporters here.

Referring to Monday’s Maoist massacre in West Bengal, he said: While the government will do what it has to, individuals and forces that romanticize or legitimise violence need to be ostracized.