“Naxalism is a national menace. Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has indicated that the Central government in the past has neglected the Naxal problems,” Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said during an adjournment motion in the house on Tuesday. “But the state is tackling the situation,” Naveen said.
Notably, the state has been demanding at least 7 battalions of CRPF to tackle Maoist menace in the state, but to no avail. Similarly the state felt let down when it got a meager Rs 26 cr to handle upgrade police system as against Rs 67 cr and Rs 38 cr received by Andhra Pradesh and Jharkhand states, respectively. The state also got only Rs 13.56 cr in SRE Yojna.
Naveen’s reaction came after the Opposition MLAs took on the state government for failing to combat the rising left wing extremism in the state. The Opposition legislators said that the atmosphere is not even conducive for the police to breathe easy. The Opposition MLAs alleged that the killing of cops in the hands of Maoists exposed the ineptness of the government in handling Maoist violence. The Congress MLAs even claimed that the Centre has been fully cooperative to the state in this regard.
“So far the state has been able to raise only one IR battalion,” Prasad Harichandan, the Congress chief whip said.
BJP MLA Jayanarayan Mishra said that both the Centre and State should make a concerted effort to fight Naxalism.
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