Bengal Maoists fast penetrating jute mills
Bengal Maoists fast penetrating jute mills
Kolkata: Politburo member of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) Koteshwar Rao has often been quoted in media interviews as saying that his outlawed party’s armed struggle, now confined to the economically backward countryside in West Bengal, would soon spread to the state’s industrial hubs as well.
Rao didn’t explain how, but his close aide Telugu Deepak, recently arrested by the Kolkata police, said during interrogation that the Maoists and other radical political groups have been slowly spreading their wings among workers in industrial units in Kolkata and its suburbs, according to the police.
“For the past one year, the Maoists have been penetrating jute mills in West Bengal at an alarming pace," said a jute mill owner, who did not want himself or his mills to be named. “It’s beginning to worry us. I believe workers in many jute mills are providing shelter to Maoist leaders and activists in their colonies."
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“It’s because they are fighting a common enemy: Citu (Centre for Indian Trade Unions)," he said.
Bose denied links with the Maoists.
These aren’t underground organizations; they aren’t waging war against the state like the Maoists.
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