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THE NAXALISM
By Sahil pravin patil
History of Naxalite
movement:
The Communist Party.of India
we must first understand the causes (Marxist-Leninist). These people are
which gave birth to Naxalism, supportive of Maoist political
working on whichThe word Naxal sentiment and ideologies and are
stems from a small village called considered as far-left radical
‘Naxalbari’ in West Bengal where a communists. Initially, this moment
movement took place in 1967, lifting had its foundation at West Bengal but
the topic of exploitation of the eventually, its circle spread into the
peasants, in collaboration with less developed areas of rural southern
communist activists, had its origin of and eastern India like Chhattisgarh,
Naxalism. The violence created Odisha and Andhra Pradesh.
during this movement rooted the Naxalites, according to their opinion,
most important initiative towards are fighting against the exploitation of
Naxalism. Their origins can be traced the tribal communities by the major
back in the year 1967 when The Indian corporations.
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
had split leading to the formation of
Naxal, Naxalite, Naxalvadi are the Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh,
generic terms used for these militant Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Bihar, and
Communist groups operating under West Bengal and marginal in Assam,
different organizational envelop in Madhya Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh.
different parts of India. According to Then Indian Prime Dr. Minister
Home Ministry, more than 3000 Manmohan Singh, On April 21, 2010,
people have died in the Maoist mentioned Naxalism as 'India's
conflict since 2008 and under the biggest internal security problem',
Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act after the Naxalite attack, where 76
of India (1967), this group has been security men were killed in an ambush
declared as a terrorist organization. in Dantewada District of
Chhattisgarh. India is still dealing with The title is asking to tackle the
this internal problem even after five Naxalism. To tackle the Naxalism, we
decades since the origin. could be able to find the solutions.
Until and unless we understand the
problem to its depth and find the
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