The unprecedented voter turnout in lok Sabha polls in insurgency-hit Chhattisgarh has apparently upset the Naxals, who are holding meetings to express disappointment over participation of large number of tribals in the electoral process, according to fresh Intelligence reports.
Some key leaders of the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) in Dandakaranya region recently held meetings in areas where they found huge participation of people in polling in spite of their poll boycott call and asked villagers about it, intelligence inputs said. The two worst Maoist-hit lok Sabha seats — Bastar and Kanker — recorded 59.40 per cent and 70.29 per cent voting in the last month’s three-phased polls.