Naxalites - The biggest threat to India's internal security

Naxalism is a euphemism for a violent and militant armed battle against the state seeking ideological support from Marxism-Leninism and strategic alliance from Maoism. The Naxal Movement is the most dreaded and longest armed struggle in the history of independent India. What began as a peasant revolt in a remote West Bengal village of Naxalbari in 1967 has now spread to a large swath in the central and eastern parts of the country. In 2006 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called the Naxalites "the single biggest internal security challenge ever faced by our country."

In terms of bloodshed and casualties, Naxal Movement is bigger than any other prominent insurgency, including militancy in the North-East and the separatist movement in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). Naxal violence in the past five years alone has claimed the lives of 4,405 persons. The comparative figures are 4,324 and 4,136 for the North-East and J&K, respectively.

The Study examines the following important aspects:

• the history, nature and extent of the Movement
   
• the evolution of the extremist Left Wing Movements in the pre-independence and post-independence India
   
• the emergence of different factions within the Communists resulting in the extremist Maoist – Naxalite Movement
  


• the rise and fall of Naxalism and its re emergence in its present form
   
• the nature of the present Movement – its tactics and modus operandi
   
• the factors that sustain it
   
• the evolution and ideologies of the various Naxalite groups like the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation and the People’s War Group (PWG)
   
• details of the state of the Movement in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chattisgarh, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Orissa and its increasing influence in new areas of Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu



• its linkages with other extremist groups like the Maoists of Nepal, Islamic fundamentalists, insurgent groups in the north-east and with the LTTE



• the recent government initiatives of the centre and the states to deal with the problem



• the road ahead
   

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