Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday said that Maoist insurgents are finding their task easy in non Congress ruling States.
‘There are certain powers and ideology existing in Chhattisgarh which do not want the Congress party to get back to power in the State,’ he told reporters this morning at the Circuit house here while on a visit to attend a condolence meeting for paying tributes to the Congress leaders who were killed in the Jeeram Ghati massacre by the Maoists on May 25 this year.
He said that certain powers had a feeling that the Congress party would receive a clear majority in the forthcoming Assembly polls which led to the massacre.
‘However, we will not be scared and continue our struggle’, Ramesh said.
He said that whatever development has taken place in Chhattisagrh is due to the programmes launched by the Central Government.
The Minister said that the political reaction have to be stronger to deal with Maoists. ‘The Centre is willing to hold talks with the Maoists but they are hiding themselves behind tribals to accomplish their tasks.’
Union Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) V Narayanswamy said that late State Congress President Nand Kumar Patel had demanded security in writing from the State Government but still, the same was not provided to him.
He said that the cheques amounting to Rs5 lakh each to the next of kin of those killed in the Jeeram Ghati attack and Rs25,000 each to the injured was handed over to the family members of those killed in the circuit house on Tuesday.