The recent abduction case of the police by the Bihar Maoists and their release in return for the eight comrades in custody has a queer element to it. It’s the terrorists who are used to doing such negotiation. But the Maoists rarely resort to such tactics.
In chattishgarh, for example, the Maoists fight with the security forces quite often, and have lost many of their comrades. Some of their comrades may have been arrested by the police in the process. But they have never abducted any cops, or any official for that matter, and raised demand for release of their arrested comrades.
The strategy does not conform to the tenet of Marxist- Leninist-Maoist thought.
Is it any adventurist line that the Bihar Maosts are pursuing? Are they disconnected with the other Maoists elsewhere? Are the Maoists disintegrating?
The Maoists, during their long movement in different parts of India, won over a section of the civil society by their relentless mobilisation of the masses against the exploitations of the impoverished tribal people by the repressive government. Eminent personalities like B.L. Sharma, Prasanta Bhusan, Arundhati Roy, Swami Agnivesh, Soma Chowdhury and others now stand for them.
It’s not sane – in fact, juvenile – for the Maoists to behave this way at the cost of their ideology.
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