Centre's opponents to LF bringing in Maoists: Yechury

New Delhi, Nov 8 : Senior CPI(M) Polit Bureau member and Rajya Sabha MP Sitaram Yechury today charged that political opponents in the Union Government to the ruling Left Front in West Bengal were the ones who were bringing in Maoists and protecting them.

The leader, of course, did not name the opponents in an interview on CNN-IBN's Devil's Advocate.

He went on to add that unless the forces of all the three states of West Bengal, Orissa and Jharkhand worked together, fighting the Maoists was not possible as their incidents were happening just along the border of either Orissa or Jharkhand.

Maoists could only be tackled the way Veerappan, who ruled the jungles in the states of Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, was caught, he added.

On the allegation that the Left Front government was being timid towards the Maoists, Mr Yechury shot back, ''The operations are on. Their chief person is arrested and these operations will continue. You may wish that the Maoists will continue with their violence but that is not going to happen.'' When charged that Chief Minister Manik Sarkar of Tripura, a far poorer state, was able to put down a much more virulent insurgency and West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, with all the resources of the state, was unable to tackle the Maoists, Mr Yechury merely said, ''Don't pre-judge. The Maoists crisis will be put down.''

--UNI

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