Return of the Maoists
Keeping the Maoists out of their former strongholds will be a challenge for Telangana.
A new dance?: File photo of Maoists at a village in Bijapur
district, Chhattisgarh
Telangana,ISSUE DATE: Aug 3, 2020 | UPDATED: Jul 25, 2020 12:24 IST
On July 14 and 15, armed cadres of the outlawed ComÂmunist Party of India (Maoist) got into firefights with the police at three places close to Telangana’s borders with Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra, signalling their retÂurn to the state after a six-year hiatus. The militants have mostly staÂyed away since the formation of Telangana in 2014, except to recuperate in safe havens while on a break from activities in Chhattisgarh’s tribal areas.