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Bhubaneswar ( Orissa ) : Few days’ back, DGP Praharaj while attending the annual meet of the senior high paid IPS officers at State Police Headquarters in Cuttack, had said, they would overpower the Bhaskar and Panda led Red Army.
Flanked by the confidence of IPS officers, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, who attended the closing function, also not hesitate to overjoyed about his Government’s success in curbing leftwing insurgency.
There after, he rushed to Raipur, where Union Home Minister P Chidambarm chaired meet and attended also by Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Dr Raman Singh and Maharashtra Deputy CM RR Patil.
So, after three to four days of fake morale boasting sessions, they again failed the Red Theory, which reads “ Create chaos in Central and assault in southwest” or “Surface in urban areas and attack in Rural”.
This was the theory of Maoists in recent times. They were not scared or disappointed after the Special Operation Group with the help of Capital Police arrested Saswati Panda alias Mili Panda, wife of Sabyasachi.
So, they killed four persons and injured 10 Jawans of the elite SOG of State Police in Koraput district by triggering landmine blasts.
The incident, which sent a shock wave in entire southwestern parts of the State, came a day after Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik joined hands with Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra to step up anti-Maoists operation jointly.
The Home Ministry had also agreed to provide additional five companies of CRPF and two choppers for operations during the meet.
Earlier, 13 people were killed in three different landmine blasts in 2008 and 2009. While two people were killed in 2008, as many as 11 people were killed in two separate landmine blasts in the same area last year.
The rebels have also called a two-day long bandh from January 25 protesting arrest of Saswati Das alias Mili.
It is high time for the Chief Minister to relinquish Home portfolio and deploy a another person to handle the Department as he not fail to achieve what his counterparts in Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh achieved but also failed to live to expectations of the State people, who voted him to power for third time.
The Red terror has spread its wings to 22 out of 30 districts in Orissa throwing a serious challenge to the state authority.
When Naveen led BJD Government banned CPI (Maoists) and few of its frontal wing including Daman Pratirodh Manch, the Revolutionary Democratic Front, the Chasi Mulia Samiti, the Kui Lawanga Sangh, the Jana Natya Mandali, the Krantikari Kisan Samiti and the Bal Sangam on June 9, 2006, the annoyance of Leftwing insurgency was very negligible.
But after 2006, the Red Ultras have expanded their network in at least 22 districts out of 30. The situation is almost alike an all-out war where both the State and the extra-constitutional forces seem to be interlocked in a deadly fight.
