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Left Wing
Extremism and North East Nexus
New
alignments are taking place in the region as a, “strategic and tactical”
alliance between Maoists and insurgent outfits of the Northeast was outlined during
a two-day conference of DGPs/IGPs and heads of Central Police Organisations of
the region, by special director of Intelligence Bureau (IB) R.N. Ravi. “This is
an area we have to be very careful about,” said Ravi. Assam governor J.B. Patnaik highlighted that Ulfa
group led by Paresh Barua has offered sophisticated arms and funds to the
Maoists. “I have been informed that the Paresh Barua group of Ulfa is in
constant negotiation with them (Maoists) and is willing to provide both
sophisticated weapons and requisite funds,” the governor said during his
valedictory address on the concluding day of the two-day conference of
DGPs/IGPs. “As you know, once the Maoists or the Naxalites establish a
beachhead in any part of the country, they quickly spread their tentacles to
the rest of the area in no time. That is what happened in Odisha and
Chhattisgarh,” he said. “The danger signal in the Northeast should be taken
seriously and immediate steps should be taken to bring the isolated areas
suffering from decades of neglect by the administration to the mainstream of
development so that they (the Maoists) will be denied easy recruitment of
youths from those areas,” Patnaik said as per media reports covering the
events.
The Assam Governor
highlighted that Maoists are mostly active in certain areas of Dhemaji and
Tinsukia districts bordering lower Dibang valley and Lohit districts of
Arunachal Pradesh. “The geographical isolation of the areas has contributed to
the proliferation of their activities. There is ample evidence of the Maoists
sending their cadres to Odisha and Jharkhand to undergo training under the
hardcore Maoist leaders there,” he said.
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