Chief of Jharkhand police DK Pandey expressed confidence that extremism in Jharkhand is on its last legs and it would be wiped out soon. He also claimed that the menace has been controlled 80 per cent and mentioned that the time is suitable for ending it.
"Eighty percent of extremism here has been contained, curbed and finished. Extremism in Jharkhand is to be essentially understood and thought of in right context and not in any way outlandish one. Here its dimension is different,” said the DGP. He also cited an incident of arson which took place in Chatra district where four vehicles of NTPC were put on fire by the Maoists last week.
DGP said this arson was carried out by a group of Bihar led by Karu Yadav. Top Maoists’ leaders have pushed him in here to create disturbance. "Jharkhand police will abort their nefarious and evil designs. Our police have also re-drawn its strategy to checkmate and fail and foil the plan of the Maoists. They will be contained and their sinister designs will be smashed” added the DGP.
He said Maoists are making all out efforts to sneak in Jharkhand from Bihar and Odisha side of borders. "Some have come here too but our men are after them. Days are not far off when they will be neutralised them completely. We need to further tune in our intelligence. It has to be smart and pin pointed. It will render the lives of the Maoists further miserable as our police are reaching out in those areas which some time back were a forbidden one. Our foot steps are everywhere. Those outlaws too hear our sounds of boots,” said the DGP.
“We seek people’s cooperation. We know Maoists base has eroded completely. They are not getting any big support from the people which they used to command in the past. I ask people to help police fighting these criminals with clinical precision,” he added. Reminded that incidents of extremism have come from Chatra, Latehar and other places too then what it means that Maoists have ‘arrived’ again to which the DGP said the top leadership of this banned organization has worked out on a national plan to revive extremism in its left wing extremist hit districts in the country.
The DGP said the Maoists’ national plan is to revive extremism and for revival they are indulging in such aberrations of arson which do not give them anything in terms of profit except that their presence gets noticed which too is for a shorter duration.
Jharkhand police are equally after them with its own redefined and redrawn strategy to counter them, neutralize them and drive them out from here.
He added the Maoists’ episode in Saryu in Latehar be seen as the part of the same national plan of Maoists for revival which will be contained with a very firm hand there. On Saturday IG CRPF and IG (Ops) Jharkhand arrived to Saryu in Latehar district and reviewed the anti-naxal operations there.