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PM Modi during his speech at Kevadia on  October 30, 2024, while celebrating Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s birth anniversary celebrations has remarked that, “As naxalism in ending in jungles, a new model of urban Naxals is raising its head. Today, urban Naxals target even those who say that you will remain safe if you remain united. We have to identify urban Naxals and unmask them .”

 

The statement by PM Modi clearly underscores the fact that he has understood the evolved feature of Naxalism in the light of changing landscape of warfare methods . 

 

With the emergence of Fifth Generation Warfare (5GW) the Naxals have also adopted strategical changes to destabilise the Bhartiya Society by creating making conditions suitable to carry out anarchic violence in the name of revolution and finish off the credibility of the Bhartiya State. 

 

The naxals in their fight against Bharat’s society have started to target our urban spaces. Naxals, through, propaganda and tactical alliances with the other elements of ‘bleed India Brigade’ are preparing to wage a war against the Bhartiya State . 

 

Recently, PM Modi has critically questioned the ideological status of country’s grand old party by stating that Naxal Elements have entered in to their system . Recently, a controversy has been fuelled by the statement of our Leader of Opposition’s (Lok Sabha) statement where he stated that they are fighting against the “Indian State”.

 

However, in order to understand the evolved tactics of this naxal strategy there is a need to critically analyse the naxal documents and compare them with the recent years events aimed to destabilise the country, so that we could get a glimpse of their new ways of working and understanding of the country’s state apparatus. 

 

 

In 2004, with the merger of Peoples’ War Group (PWG) and Maoist Communist Centre (MCCI), the Communist Party of India (Maoist) came into existence. After extensive discussions, a document titled Strategies and Tactics of Indian Revolution (STIR) came into existence.

 

The STIR is a guiding document needed to be implemented for achieving the goals of Maoist activities aimed to disturb the Bharat’s social fabric. The document underlines the need for Maoists to operate in a secret manner, increase the work in urban spaces by targeting groups like youths, students, women, religious minorities etc by infusing a sense of ‘victimhood’ in their psyche through propaganda and other means. It also underscores the need to create organisations which should work legally but their actual aim should be to conduct activities which destabilise the Bhartiya Society. 

 

 

There are various points in this document which provides a clear framework for our understanding that what’s going around us in the name of activism and how the urban naxals are converting our urban spaces into a battlefield !

 

In a section titled ‘Class Analysis of Indian State’, the document reads  “From a concrete class analysis of the Indian society and state we find that, under the signboard of the so-called Republic and the Parliamentary democracy, India is nothing but a semi-colonial and semi-feudal state under neo-colonial form of indirect rule, exploitation and control.

 

It is the armed forces, judiciary, prisons, bureaucracy, etc. of the state machinery that execute the actual business of the state and the principal organ of this state machinery is its armed forces. The present Indian state machinery is the instrument of class repression, class exploitation and class rule of the comprador bureaucratic bourgeoisie and big landlords who subserve the imperialists.”

 

And now let’s compare the statement made by Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha i.e. they are fighting against the Indian State has made it clear that Maoist logic to create a ecosystem against the Bhartiya State has been already in work. 

 

Later in in order to create strong bases in urban areas the document further states that there is a need to increase the work among the ‘Intellectuals and Students’ and addressing the ‘Professionals’ which includes doctors, professionals etc it states that “These sections of petty bourgeoisie are reliable motive forces in the revolution. Their weakness is that some of them are easily influenced by the bourgeoisie and hence we must carry on revolutionary propaganda and constant organisational work among them.” Thus it guided the cadres to make propaganda a tool to expand their work in the middle of the se working groups.

 

Later on in order to create anarchy in the society the strategy was to intensify the social and cultural faultlines of this country it directed that “We will have to mobilise people into class struggle more skillfully and cautiously based on class line and mass line.” (Page no19).

 

The Maoists need a secured urban fort so that sufficient logistical resources could be provided to them for their notorious aims “The urban movement is one of the main sources, which provides cadres and leadership having various types of capabilities essential for the people’s war and for the establishment of liberated areas. 

 

Moreover, the responsibility for the provision of supplies, technology, expertise, information and other logistical support to the people’s war too, lies on the shoulders of the urban revolutionary movement itself.” (Page no.30)

In 2019, with the passing of Citizenship Ammendment Act in Parliament a propaganda was popularised among the masses of the country that the bill carrying a legislative retrospective power aims to target the Religious minorities of this country, thus the propaganda aimed to intensify the social faultline of religion for the benefit of the motives of this Bleeding India brigade ! And we see that movements like Shaheen Bagh came to our socio-political discourse . Later on, the official investigation revealed the sinister plan of this brigade in these protests i.e. to thwart the internal security of the country . However this is also a plan mentioned in the document “Moreover, we should not belittle the importance of the fact that the urban areas are strong centres of the enemy.

 

 Building up of a strong urban revolutionary movement means that our Party should build a struggle network capable of waging struggle consistently, by sustaining itself until the protracted people’s war reaches the stage of strategic offensive .” (Page no. 30)

 

The document also disclosed that their is a need to align with the other anti-Bharat forces and form should form United fronts . The stress was to make tactical alliances so that they can carry out their mission to destabilise Bharat . The document stressed to form tactical alliances  with other groups on the basis of a common minimum programme “The aim of the united front is to isolate, weaken and destroy the main enemies one by one and win over the maximum possible forces opposed to the main enemies. Hence, the Party has to pay particular attention to build as broad a front as possible by uniting with all those classes, groups, parties, individuals and forces that aspire to achieve the common aim of the United Front, however weak and vacillating the constituents of the United Front may be .” (Page no. 33)

 

On critically examining the Prime Minister’s statement regarding the grand old party that urban naxals have infiltrated in the organisation of the political party , this has been the strategy devised in the document that the ideological cadre of the party must infiltrate in the mass organisations and it devises that “The Party part-timers and whole-timers in the mass organizations, cooperatives, organs of people’s political power and their various wings, people’s militia and the various mass fronts should remain secret, but at the same time, appear as members and leaders of these organizations. The Party members in the mass organizations should maintain the utmost secrecy. The Party members in the working class, youth, women, petty bourgeoisie and other sections in the urban areas should work strictly underground keeping the strategic perspective in mind.” (Page no.37)

 

The document further on in its section titled “Work in Urban Areas” has put forward three basic aims for its cadre in the urban areas :

 

1. Mobilise and Organise the Basic Masses

2. Building the United Front 

3. To send the cadres to rural areas so to carry out armed operations . 

 

And describing the aim of the urban work the document reads “…we should work with the aim of creating an upsurge of people’s movements against the stranglehold of imperialism and the repressive policies of the Indian State. To achieve this, we should concentrate our work mainly on the vast section of the working class and other democratic sections .” (Page no.60)

 

 

It is important to note that the excerpts from the document mentioned above are not mere statements rather the guidelines which are now visible that the are already placed in work . 

 

On June 27,2018 the Ministry of Home Affairs had written a letter to the then DGP of Jharkhand stating that their has been a alignment of the Maoists alongwith Popular Front of India (PFI), banned Islamist radical organisation . The letter states “There is a growing convergence between the Maoist affiliates and the Popular Front of India. 

 

Following ban imposed by the Jharkhand Government of Mazdoor Sangharsh Samiti (MSS), a CPI (Maoist) front, and PFI consequently, both sides have echoed each other causes and in the process targeted the ‘Hindutva’ State Government .”

 

Later on the letter further states that “ In the past, convergence between Maoist affiliates and PFI/NCHRO (National Confederation of Human Rights Organisations) was witnessed in Kerala in the aftermath of the killing (24th November, 2016) of to senior Maoist leaders in the district Mallapuram. Anti-Fake Encounter Front and Anti-Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act were formed by both sides to progress anti-government propaganda. As part of the if strategy, Maoist affiliates have attempted to form “Tactical United Fronts” with like-minded organisations across different theatres to push the it narrative .” 

 

It’s pertinent to note that it was the same CPI (Maoist) which was among the first ones to issue a statement in favour of Popular Front of India (PFI) when of was banned in 2022. 

 

The CPI (Maoist) signalled their opposition to the Modi government during an Eastern Regional Bureau (ERB) meeting held from December 21-24, 2015, where they passed a resolution against Modi’s leadership.

 

The opening paragraph of this resolution notes that since the loss of the Sonia-Manmohan-led Congress in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the CPI (Maoist) and their allies have faced significant challenges. This isn’t the only document hinting at an alliance between Naxals and the Congress Party.

 

letter dated January 2, 2018, written by Comrade M to Rona Wilson, highlights the relationship. It states: “Senior Comrades from the CPI (Maoist) urban leadership have had prior talks with our friends in Congress, who suggested ramping up Dalit mobilisation efforts. They are ready to provide legal and financial assistance through intermediary (Jignesh). Dalit sentiments are clearly against BJP/RSS, and this should be converted into large-scale mobilisation and unrest.”

 

The letter further mentions, “Congress friends have assured assistance for the release of senior political prisoners, including Com. Kobad and Com. Sai.”

 

 

The Maoist have changed their strategies in the changing warfare landscape . Now urban naxals are the new form of Maoist movement . Now, Urban Naxals is equal to Naxalism minus AK-47 . The new means of carrying out anti-Bharat agenda is now to create propaganda ecosystem so to distort the Bharat’s rising image . The creation of protests like Shaheen Bagh to interrupt our development agenda has been a clear indication that Naxals have changed their means to achieve their ends  . It’s also alarming that a major political party and that too our grand old party is shaking hands with this Anti-Bharat , Bleeding India Brigade to gain political successes by utilising the faultline a of our society ! It’s up to the people of Bharat to give appropriate reply to this Bleed India Brigade who are making all efforts to hinder our journey of creating a Developed nation by 2047.