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.
“In some pockets of Bastar, Dantewada, Kondagaon and Narayanpur, Naxal leaders reportedly held meetings with villagers recently after the lok Sabha polls in Bastar constituency which was held in the first phase in the State on April 10,” a senior intelligence official informed.
"However, police couldn't go deep enough to check the reason behind their meetings at several places. As per the informers, the Naxals were enquiring how voting was recorded high in the region despite their intense poll boycott call," the official added.
The two worst Maoist-hit lok Sabha seats - Bastar and Kanker - recorded 59.40 per cent and 70.29 per cent voting respectively in the last month's three-phased Parliamentary polls in the state. Bastar went to polls on April 10 while voting took place in Kanker on April 17.
In the 2009 general elections, Bastar and Kanker seats had witnessed voter turnout of 47.33 and 57.20 per cent respectively.
Also, over 70 per cent voters exercised their franchise in the left Wing Extremism (lWE) affected areas of the state during assembly polls held in the state in November last year.