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Maoists want to overthrow Indian state: Pillai Friday, March 5, 2010,17:16 [IST] New Delhi <#>, Mar 5: Union Home Secretary G K Pillai on Friday, Mar 5, said that Maoists agenda was to overthrow the Indian state by 2050. Pillai was speaking at the Institute of Defence Studies <#>and Analysis in New Delhi <#>. "Documents which were found revealed that the Maoist agenda was to overthrow the Indian state by 2050, possibly with the help of ex-Armymen," Pillai said. "Maoists were not serious about talks because they weren't under enough pressure to do so," Pillai said. "Right now, Maoists were looking to regroup and build their own army <#>towards their plans," he said adding that they were using administrative vacuum and under development to do this. Pillai added that the only way to fight them was through development. Earlier, Home Minister P Chidambaram had asked Maoists to abjure violence and asked them to contact for peace talks. II. http://www.deccanchronicle.com/national/maoists-want-overthrow-indian-state-2050-pillai-534 Maoists want to overthrow Indian state by 2050: Pillai Mar 05 2010 New Delhi: Maoists are probably getting help from some ex-Armymen and have plans to overthrow the Indian state through their armed struggle and control the government by 2050, the home secretary, Mr Gopal K. Pillai, said on Friday. Addressing a seminar on "Left Wing Extremism Situation in India", Mr Pillai said the Maoists might be getting the help of some former soldiers in carrying out subversive activities. Mr Pillai also said stamping out the Maoist menace is going to be a "long bloody war" because the armed rebel cadres were very highly motivated and trained. "They are very highly motivated, highly trained. I am quite certain that there are some, may be some ex-army or some people who have been with them," he said. Giving reasons for arriving at this conclusion, Mr Pillai said after launching any attack, the Naxals conduct a post-mortem and analyse the whole operation. "After every attack, they do a post-mortem and analysis. The analysis is as good as armed forces of any country does." On Maoists' plans, Mr Pillai said, "the overthrow of the Indian state is not something they are willing to do tomorrow or the day after. Their strategy, according to a booklet they circulated, is that they are looking for at 2050, some documents say in 2060." Mr Pillai said Naxals were not looking to overthrow the Indian state in 2012 or 2013. It is a long steady plan and in the past 10 years they slowly build up the movement, he added. The home secretary said 908 people have lost their lives last year, the highest since 1971, in Naxal violence and it may go up in this year and next year become coming down. He also said, "the operations have not hit even five per cent of hardcore militants. The real armed cadres are yet to come out." Unless they feel the heat they will not come for talks and whatever statement they were making about peace was not serious, he added. II. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Maoists-looking-at-armed-overthrow-of-state-by-2050/articleshow/5648742.cms 'Maoists looking at armed overthrow of state by 2050'TNN, Mar 6, 2010, 03.15am IST NEW DELHI: Home secretary G K Pillai on Friday said Maoists were looking at the armed overthrow of the Indian state by 2050, acknowledging that the state was ill-equipped at present to put significant pressure on them. Addressing a seminar on `Left-wing extremism' at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), Pillai said, "The overthrow of the Indian state is not something they are willing to do tomorrow or the day after. Their strategy, according to a booklet they circulated, is that they are looking at 2050, some documents say at 2060." Pillai described Maoists as a formidable enemy, saying they had not come under any significant pressure yet, because their core armed cadres remained intact and out of reach of the Indian state. Dismissing recent talk of talks, Pillai was sure that the Maoists would only come for negotiations when they felt the heat, which they were not at present. The Indian state, its administrative lapses and poor governance were largely to blame for the growth of Naxalism, he said. The Maoists had developed bases in remote, forest areas, where they operated in a perceived administrative vacuum. There were many districts, Pillai said, where the government had not existed for decades. They also lived in a strange paradox, opposing development on the one hand but drawing oxygen from the development dissatisfaction of the local people, he added. However, Pillai said that for the first time in the past one year, the state had decided to tackle this extremism head-on, and take back much of the areas "lost" to the Maoists. In Chhattisgarh, for instance, the state had reclaimed about 4,000 sq km of territory that had been under a severe development deficit and under Maoist control. Over the past 60 years, the Indian state had created a huge detritus of poor governance -- whether it was laws governing tribals' access to forest land or their right to minor forest produce. All this was changing, but very slowly, because the Indian system has traditionally moved very slowly, Pillai said. He cited the new mining act which will be introduced in Parliament soon. The legislation envisages a fund in perpetuity for the development of local villages; new power plants will have to give subsidised or free power to surrounding villages, and the government is in the process of withdrawing cases against tribals for accessing minor forest produce. But these measures will take a while to show up on the ground. The government was also hamstrung by the fact that different states took different views on tackling the menace. For instance, West Bengal continues to take an ambivalent position. In January 2009, it refused to allow inter-state operations against Maoists, but a year and many killings later, the CPM government is now seeing the value of this. Pillai said the Maoists had been very successful in setting up their structures and systems, funds and training as well as access to about Rs 1,400 crore a year in funds. Their operations were largely low cost, but Pillai was clear that they were not really interested in any discussions with the state. Their aim was armed revolt. In West Bengal, where the CPM thought it could convince the Maoists to change their ways, 159 party workers were killed by the ultras in West Midnapore alone. Pillai said one of the first acts of the Maoists was to demystify state authority by shooting at the face of officialdom in the target area. The Maoists were also helped by so-called intellectual groups and civil society organisations by building resistance and protests to things like SEZ, land reforms or land acquisition for development. Maoist violence claimed its highest toll of 908 in 2009, the highest yet since 1971. Pillai expected this to go up significantly in the coming years, before the state could get on top of things. The lack of capacities in the state was manifest in the grim fact that in all its operations so far, not more than 5% of the core armed cadres of the Maoists had been hit. "The real armed cadres are yet to come out," he said. However, in the recent past, intelligence gathering had improved significantly which led to the arrest of several key leaders. Maoists, Pillai said, were very meticulous in conducting their reconnaissance, attacks, and post-mortems -- pointing to some professional help, either from former soldiers or others. "Now they can bring many sectors of Indian economy to their knees. But they don't want to do it today. They know that if they do that now, the state will come very hard. They are not fully prepared to face the onslaught of the state machinery. So, they would rather go very slowly," he said. "They are very highly motivated, highly trained. I am quite certain that there are some, may be some ex-army or some people who have been with them," Pillai said. -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. 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