MCC, PW launch campaign against Jharkhand govt

GAYA: In a significant development, arch rivals MCC and the CPI-ML (People’s War) have launched a joint campaign against the Jharkhand government. Through a joint statement, Sunil and Raman, secretaries of the joint state committee of Bihar and Jharkhand of the CPI-ML (People’s War) and Bihar-Jharkhand-Bengal Special Area Committee of the MCC respectively have given a call to the people of Jharkhand to give the state government a run for its money.A copy of the joint appeal was made available to the TNN in Gaya.
The appeal alleged that the Jharkhand police were committing atrocities on the poor and that they resorted to extortion and blackmail of the innocent people on the alibi of conducting anti-Naxalite operations. If the number of Pota detentions reveal anything, Jharkhand is more disturbed a state as compared to even Kashmir and the North-East as no less than 3,000 persons have been booked under Pota in the state, the statement said. The MCC and People’s War leaders also accused the Jharkhand police of committing massacres in Semari (Garhwa), Piparkhand and Marnaghati (Palamu). With this appeal, the joint MCC-PW operation has become a dreadful possibility.
The two Naxalite organisations have, for more than a decade, been involved in a bloody turf war in the Palamu area of Jharkhand and Aurangabad-Jehanabad region of Bihar. The joint statement also questioned the motive of the Jharkhand government in road construction activity in the state. The MCC and the People’s War leaders alleged that roads were being constructed in Jharkhand to crush what they called the revolutionary struggle in the region and also to mint money in the name of development. Raising the issue of greater Jharkhand, which includes the tribal districts of Orissa, West Bengal and Chattisgarh, the Naxalite leaders alleged that a fraud has been committed on the tribal population who have been virtually handed over a toy “jhunjhunna� in the name of Jharkhand. The MCC and People’s War leaders also alleged that the communal forces were trying to create ill-will between the Hindu and Christian tribals.
Explaining its shattered dream theory on Jharkhand, the MCC-PW joint statement said that no appointments, except a few in the state police department, have been made in the state during the last two years. The ongoing closure of mines and factories, too, have rendered thousands of unorganised workers jobless. In order to conceal its own shortcomings, the Babulal Marandi government has fuelled the domicile fire which was dangerous for the state’s polity as well as economy.