Diminishing cadre base along with decreasing leadership in CPI (Maoists) has lead to a decreasing trend of Naxal related incidents in Jharkhand. According to Jharkhand Police, lack of public support to the Maoists also played an important role in bringing the graph of Naxal related incident to an all time low this year.

According to a brochure released by Jharkhand Police on December 28, for the first time since 2011, there has not been a single Naxal attack on police stations in Jharkhand so far this year.

“As there has been a steep decrease in the manpower, operational power and fire power of the CPI (Maoists) in the last one year, they have not been able to make any major attempt to harm the police stations/OP or police pickets in the State,” said ADG (Operations) and Jharkhand Police Spokesperson SN Pradhan.

Increasing operational reach of the security forces has proved to be a major factor in bringing the graph down as there was not a single day during the last one year when half a dozen operations were not carried out in different parts of the state, he said.

“SPs, who played a lead role in carrying out operations in their districts, must be appreciated for this,” said Pradhan. Coordination between the State police and paramilitary forces which improved dramatically in the last one year also helped a lot in bringing down the Naxal incidents this year, he said.

Due to intense pressure mounted on the Maoists by state police their cadre base is also on the verge of attrition due to which they are also not getting people to support and join them, said police spokesperson.

“They are also going through acute shortage of two material things which are important to run an organization – arms and ammunition,” he said.

2015 is the first year in the last one decade that not a single arm was looted from the policemen, while most of their weapons were taken away by their cadres or handed over to the police again by the surrendering Naxals, he said.

According to Pradhan, Maoists were also not being able to come out in the open due to police pressure and hence are not getting proper supply of ammunition, hitting their supply and demand chain badly.

Furthermore, due to widespread awareness programme conducted by the state police, they are also not getting proper support from the public and people have started coming out openly in police support which has resulted into more and more arrests of their leaders, said the spokesperson.

“Attrition in leadership has also proved to be fatal for the Maoists as only 12-14 top leaders have been left in the organizations while out of 5-7 Special Area Committee (SAC) Members, there remains only two of them,” said the police spokesperson. Caste politics within the organizations also contributed a lot in weakening of the Maoist cadres, he said.

Pradhan further added it only helped them when they worked on all the three aspects – Maoists, People’s liberation Front of India (PlFI) as well as Tritiya Sammelan Prastuti Committee (TSPC). “Concerted action against all the three factions of rebels were taken together due to which we succeeded getting control over them,” said Pradhan.

The police brochure further revealed that the Maoists could not hold 'people's court' in any part of the state for the second year in a row.

“The CPI (Maoists) had attacked six times on police stations/outposts/pickets in 2011, eight times in 2012, five times in 2013 and four times in 2014. But 2015 till date has been free of such incidents,” stated the booklet.

“Maoists failed to hold even a single ‘Jan Adalat’ (kangaroo court) in 2014 and 2015 as compared to 31 in 2011, 20 in 2012 and 10 in 2013.

Jharkhand, with 20 left-wing Extremism-affected districts, witnessed a total of 186 Naxal-related incidents this year as against 504 in 2011, 404 in 2012, 349 in 2013 and 231 in 2014, a statement said.

According to the booklet, altogether, there were 186 Naxal-related incidents this year, again a sharp decline when compared with previous year’s 231 incidents and 59 encounters.

Only 45 Maoist encounters took place in 2015, as against 59 in 2014, 68 in 2013, 51 in 2012 and 63 in 2011, added the booklet.