Amit is right. This analysis is really good. But what’s with this disturbing paragraph?
This cuts both ways. The Congress won the Andhra Pradesh election of 2004 with informal Naxalite help. There are murmurs it wants to extend this experiment to the 76 Naxal-active districts across India, and call an early Lok Sabha election.
If true, this is not only shocking, it is treasonous.
The Congress won the Andhra Pradesh election of 2004 with informal Naxalite help
The current Cong govt in Andhra is a coalition with some much needed numbers from the Telangana Rashtra Samiti(TRS) – which is indeed a political wing of the Naxalites. The demand is being made for a separate Telangana state, but in effect the coalition was made on the basis of special favours to be granted(autonomy excluded) to the Telangana region.
,i>There are murmurs it wants to extend this experiment to the 76 Naxal-active districts across India, and call an early Lok Sabha election.
The current equations in Andhra show that the Naxals and current govt. are not getting along all that well. Pre-poll alliances made by the TRS to curtail Naxal violence in exchange for decision making positions(6 ministers from TRS in the local cabinet,I think), have now been more or less laid moot because of fresh Naxal violence. Subsequent retaliaiton and killing of some key members in the Naxal camp have caused these two camps to fall apart.
Take the eastern Naxal belt and you have – Bihar,Orissa,Andhra and Bengal. The Congress will find it difficult to unseat the CPI in Bengal which already is tied to the Naxals. In Bihar/Jharkhand, the Marxist combine is wedded to shift between the main power moguls – Soren,Yadav and Paswan. Orissa is the only state where the Cong could use it to its benefit. All in all, an unrealistic possibility unless power equations shift drastically in the near future.
I don’t think the Congress will be able to extend
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