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New Delhi: Reiterating the Centre’s stance asking the CPI (Maoist) to halt all acts of violence, home minister P Chidambaram on Friday said the Central government was ready to facilitate talks between them and state governments on all matters including land acquisition, forest rights and industrialisation.
Within hours, Left-wing insurgents rejected any possibility of negotiations with the government, making it clear that laying down arms meant a “betrayal of the people’s interests”. The Maoists said an agreement could be reached only if the Centre gave up its ‘illogical’ and ‘obstinate’ stand that they should abjure violence.
A senior leader of the CPI (Maoist), identified by the name Azad, said to be spokesperson of the group’s central committee, issued a statement saying, “we have taken up arms for the defence of the people’s rights and for achieving their liberation from all types of exploitation and oppression.”
“The violence must end. The state—the central government and the state governments—have a duty to end the violence. It is with that objective that we have made a simple and straightforward appeal to the CPI (Maoist): ‘Halt the violence’. These are three simple words, and I do not see why they should be subjected to tortuous interpretation and analysis,” Chidambaram said while presenting his ministry’s report card for the month of October.
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