New Delhi, May 19 (Inditop.com) Two days after Maoists blew up a bus killing 31 people, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh Wednesday described Maoist insurgency as the worst form of terrorism in India.
“It is the worst form of terrorism. One thousand civilians have been killed in the last 10 years,” Singh told reporters here.
“Killing civilians, attacking public transport, attacking school buses, punishing people and beating them up in ‘jan adalats’. What is this? Isn’t it terrorism? They are spreading terror,” he said about the guerrillas who are entrenched in parts of central and eastern India.
‘Jan Adalats’ (Peoples’s Courts) are kangaroo courts run by Maoists in their strongholds including in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region.
Singh said that Monday’s attack on a bus in a forested stretch of Chhattisgarh that left 31 civilians and special police officers dead was aimed at targeting civilians “because they support the government”.
The chief minister, who reached New Delhi Wednesday morning and is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh later in the day, said the Maoist problem cannot be tackled overnight.
“We need to be prepared for a long-drawn war. But we are moving in the right direction,” he said.
