India to observe May 21 as Anti-Terrorism Day

By IANS
Thursday, May 20, 2010

NEW DELHI - India will observe Anti-Terrorism Day Friday to mark former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination on May 21, 1991.

The home ministry said in a statement Thursday: “Anti-terrorism Day is observed to generate awareness among all sections about the danger of terrorism, violence and its dangerous effect on the people, the society and the country.”

Debates and discussions will be organised in schools, colleges and universities Friday. Symposia, seminars and lectures will also take place.

People in government offices, public sector undertakings and other public institutions will take anti-terrorism pledge.

A Tamil Tiger suicide bomber blew up Gandhi at an election rally near Chennai in 1991.

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Kulbhushan Kanwaar
May 21, 2010: 7:34 am

On Anti-Terrorist Day
Stop politics on Maoist.
Time to act otherwise it will be too late
Communist Party of India (Maoists) founded on 21.9.2004 through merger from CPI (ML) people war and Maoists Communist Center of India on 14.10.2004 with the aim to fight for the rights of the tribles in the forest belt around central India as they thought that this region contains minerals and people working there are being exploited by the government agencies and mine owners.Maoists are also known as Naxels. Basically they toe the line of Mao Zedong of Communist Party of China to install people’s government via new democratic revolution. As Naxalits think that the” State is an organ of class rule, an organ for the oppression of one class of people by another class of people, it is the creation of “order”which legalise the perpetuates thus oppression by moderaling the conflict between classes” The main aim of Maoist Political Party of India is to over throw the Democratic Elected Government of India.
In the beginning Maoists have been defined in a different way. They were well connected with the issues and problems regarding social economical, infrastructure and civil eminities. They were known as social reformers. But gone are those days. For the last two decades they have been proved as major hinderence in development work and depriving the poor people from basic infrastructure, education, health and other civil eminities. They have gone far away from the main ideology. Now they are engaged with extortion, collection of money and time has proved that they have been using the trible people who in return got very less from Maoists but lost every thing and add to their miseries. Their houses have been burnt and more than 15,000 people from 420 villages have been compelled to live in refugee camps provided by the government.The governments also trained them as SPOs to defend themselves from Maoists and are being paid Rs.1500/- p.m. Most of these people are from business communities or agriculturists and belongs to Hindu community. Maoists are mostly from Muslim communities or charistans. Not only Chattisgarh but they have spread their feets to Andhara, Bihar, Maharashtra, West Bangal, and Orissa.
Surprisingly, they have link with Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), Coordination Committee of Maoist Parties and Organisation of South Asia, Communist Party of the Phillipine, Lashkar-e-Toiba, Sri Lanka Maoists who are engaged in training them and arms are being supplied by China.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh termed them as“the single biggest internal security challenge, ever faced by our country” and banned the Communitst Party of India (Maoist) under VAPA act and declared Maoists as terrorist organization on 22nd June, 2009 when leftist were part and parcel of the UPA government.
In the year 2010 only Maoists committed Silda Camp attack on 16.2.2010, Indiscriminate firing in Jamui (Bihar) on 18.2.2010, Killing village guard by slitting his throat on 20.2.2010, Mukrana forest Dante Wada Distt. Killing 73 CRPF and one personal of district force by ambush on 6.4.2010, Blown up a bus killing 35 people on 17.5.2010 and blown up diesel train on today itself. Still Mr. Narinder Modi Chief Minister of Gujrat and Mr.Lalu Parshad Yadav stated that negociations should be started with Maoists.I fail to understand nobody debared them from negociation. Home Minister Mr.P.Chidambrum offered them to shun violence and come across the negotiation table but Maoists flatly refused so. Mr.Raman Singh Chief Minister, Chattisgarh has never refused for talks. The retaliation from Maoists is only because Raman Singh is titing their screw. Raman Singh is praise worthy who is fighting like a soldier. The differences of opinion from within the two biggest parties are very unfortunate at the time when sovernity and democracy of India is at stake. I do agree that solution to violence to counter violence is no remedy but at the same time you cannot be silent spectator when India is undergoing a long low intensity civil war? Can we win a war without fighting it? India is fighting half heartdly against these Red Revolutioneries but we fail to curve the menance rather it has increased.Because of the fact that our politicians never refrain from playing vote bank cheap politics. I don’t know why our policiticians do not understand the deep rooted conspiracy of China or they just ignore it for petty gains? China itself is A team and created B team consisting of Pakistan, Afganistan, Nepal, Bangla Desh and Sri Lanka and C team by harboring Maoists with arm and amnution to shape its dream against India. China is already staking claim on Indian Territory. Now this movement by Maoists, though they call them Naxals, seems different from that. It is an organized movement funded lavishly by some vested interests. I fear, they are acting like LTTE, i.e. another regime within a country, which Sri Lanka failed to curb after so many years. It now is not a regional problme. The Central Government should take it seriously as a security threat to our country. I think it is still within handling limits. But soon it will get out of control. Then it will be much difficult to tackle it. In such a situation all politicians irrespective of their parties they belong to, people, print media, electronic media and businessmen should join hand for the final blow and crush these antinationls for ever to give proper infrastructure and basic amanities to the trible people who were earlier exploited by government agencies and mine owners and now by the Maoists.
Kulbhushan Kanwar
P.G (Pol.Science), Ex-PSMS-I.

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