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Bhubaneswar (Orissa): The BJP has hit out Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for his Government's failure to check Maoists violence in Orissa.
"Over the last nine years Patnaik has been in charge of the home department and Maoists have made deep inroads in as many as 18 of the 30 districts of the state," said BJP leader BB Harichandan.
Harichandan said that Patnaik lacked the will to combat the Maoists. "The Left wing extremists have found Orissa to be a happy hunting ground, a soft target and have carried out unprecedented strikes with success over the last nine years," he said.
"Patnaik has been busy shunting out competent DGP's," he remarked while adding that even during pre-Independence era or for that matter post Independence, nowhere in the country had a state armoury been looted.
For the first time ever, it happened in Orissa in 2004 at Koraput when the Naxals merrily looted the armoury. They tasted success and repeated it at Nayagarh by looting two armouries right under the nose of the police administration in February, 2008. In between they carried out several successful operations killing 39 policemen at Chitrakonda, 17 CRPF jawans in Malkangiri district and so on, he narrated.
"The maximum numbers of casualties have taken place during this period and over 80 policemen have died," he charged.
"The BJD government headed by Patnaik has failed to protect the life and property of people," he thundered, trying to make it an electoral issue. Vast areas of the state have become unsafe, he said while mentioning that prior to 2000, Maoists presence was negligible and limited to six districts of the state.
