| Eastern states reel under Maoist violence |
| BS Reporters & Agencies / New Delhi June 27, 2007 |
| For the second straight day, parts of the country came to a complete standstill as Naxals enforced a blockade, burnt down a railway station and blasted railway tracks causing damage assessed at Rs 40 crore. Yesterday cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) had targeted a communication tower of the Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) at Balimela in the Malkangiri district of Orissa. Police sources said that the Maoists had fixed two landmines below the tower and one of which exploded partially damaging the installation. The other landmine, however, did not explode. Extreme Left groups warned that more was to come. In an interview that was posted on a Naxal website last month, Ganapathy, General Secretary, CPI(Maoist) said for the first time a single directing centre for the Indian revolution had emerged after the merger of the two major Maoist streams in the Indian communist movement. A Congress |
