KUMUD JENAMANI
Jamshedpur, Nov 27: The outlawed Naxal outfit CPI-Maoist has on Saturday resorted to a widespread poster campaign in West Singhbhum district, triggering sensation among the villagers.
The poster campaign was aimed at luring the young men and women into joining the outfit while preparing for the 21st anniversary celebration of PLGA (People’s Liberation Guerilla Army), the armed wing of the CPI-Maoist.
The posters and banners were found fixed on the trunk of the trees, electric poles and walls of houses located on the roadside in Kiriburu, Goelkera, Gua and Hatgamharia thana areas of the district early this morning. But as soon as the information about the poster campaign reached the local police station, police parties rushed to the spot and seized them.
In the posters, the Naxals have urged the youths and young women to join the outfit so that it may become stronger and the fight against the government can be fought more effectively.
West Singhbhum SP, Ajay Linda confirmed the poster campaign by the Naxal outfit.
“The Naxals had resorted to poster campaign in certain police stations areas and undoubtedly they have done this out of deep frustration. We have removed all the posters and banners and seized them, ” said Linda.
The Naxal outfit has suddenly got active after its top leader Prashant Bose was arrested along with his five associates recently. Soon after Bose’s arrest, the outfit had started a “Pratirodh Saptaah, ” 24-hour Bharat bandh and then three-day-long Jharkhand-Bihar-UP-Chhattishgarh bandh and now resorting to poster campaign — all followed within a fortnight of the Prashant Bose’s arrest.
Keeping the frustration-filled acts of the Naxal outfit, the police and paramilitary forces have been put on alert and have been instructed to take stringent action against the rebels if found overground.
