BHUBANESWAR: Criticising Union Home Minister P Chidambaram for his statement that the Maoists are resorting to terror tactics to force the State Government to concede their demands, the central committee of the CPI (Maoist) had defended the recent kidnappings.Stating that the kidnappings were against the State repression unleashed against the ‘adivasis’, the spokesperson of the central committee of the CPI (Maoist) Abhay said that the demands were mostly release of thousands of tribals in various jails.The statement alleged that 3,000 tribals are in jail in Chhattisgarh, while 6,000 more are in prisons in Jharkhand. Thousands more are in jails in Punjab, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Maharashtra, Odisha, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and other states for fighting against displacement and for Jal-Jungle-Zameen. They are demanding the release of ordinary adivasis who were kidnapped by the State and had been without trace since then. The adivasis were put in jails on fabricated charges, he said.Describing the NCTC proposed by the Centre as a fascist organisation modelled on the NCTC of the US, Abhay said that they want to crush every democratic aspiration and genuine demand of people through this. Referring to the development part of the two-pronged strategy implemented by the ‘young collectors’, Abhay said that these lead to nothing but impoverishment and displacement of thousands of adivasis and are nothing but the other side of the coin that has repression on one side.Defending the kidnapping of the two Italians, Abhay said that they were taking objectionable photos of the Adivasi women as part of tourism that the Indian state wants to promote at the cost of the dignity of the Adivasi people.
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