Maoist violence part of "wider gameplan", says CPI(M)

New Delhi, Jun 20 (PTI) Condemning the Maoist violence
against the Left cadre, Communist Party of India-Marxist
(CPI-M) on Saturday said these attacks were part of a "wider
gameplan by powerful vested interests" to destroy the party in
its bastion of India's eastern state of West Bengal.

"There is no doubt that this attack against the CPI(M)
and its workers and sympathisers is part of the wider game
gameplan by powerful vested interests to weaken and destroy
the party in its main base of Bengal," the party Central
Committee said in a statement here.

The party was of the view that these "fascistic type"
of attacks on the CPI(M) were also an attack on the minimum
norms of democracy and must be a matter of concern to all
democratic minded citizens.

"In Lalgarh, the Maoist gang with direct and indirect
backing of the Trinamool Congress has created a zone of terror
against CPI(M) members and supporters.

"It is noted that the Maoist leaders in the area have
openly spoken about their contacts and help to the Trinamool-
led alliance in all the developments in Nandigram," the party
alleged.

The Central Committee said it supports the efforts
made by West Bengal government to use both political and
administrative measures to free the area from Maoist gangs
while taking all steps to reestablish links with the poor
tribals living in the area.

The CPI(M) claimed that since March this year, 53
party members or supporters were killed.

In Lalgarh area in West Midnapore district, eight
CPI(M) members and workers have been killed and their houses
and offices burnt.

"In one instance in Lalgarh, the body of a comrade was
kept in the open for three days and his family was not allowed
to cremate it," the party claimed.

The Central Committee also asked its units all over
the country to launch a powerful campaign against the
"politics of terror" unleashed by the Trinamool-led alliance
as well as against the Maoist gangs. PTI ARC
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