Monday, May 7, 2012

Karma flays CM for disowning salva judum


Raipur, May 05, 2012

Former leader of opposition in State Assembly Mahendra Karma has flayed Chief Minister Raman Singh for disowning salva judum. “It is really upsetting that the CM has refused to acknowledge the existence of salva judum when everybody knows that it is a state-owned movement. It seems the Sukma Collector’s abduction incident has deeply affected the CM and he still looks frightened,” Karma said.
He said the CM’s remark over salva judum had hurt large number of tribals who are linked to this anti-naxal movement.
“These tribals are presently residing in base camps with no radical facilities. Now, with the CM disowning salva judum, they fear that the government would also list the security arrangements from the base camps,” Karma said.
“The BJP government had been taking the credit salva judum by far but after fulfilment of its political objective, it simply denied to acknowledge the people involved with the movement. This is sheer opportunistic attitude,” he said.
He further criticised the government for posing silence over consistent killing of salva judum workers by Maoists.
He said the movement was going in the right direction, but could not pick pace as the government never displayed seriousness in consolidating it.
“In fact, the government failed to respond equally strongly the war strategic waged by the naxals. At regular intervals, the extremists continue to attack the police forces and common people under a planned strategy which consequently put the government in back foot. Hence, it indirectly prevented expansion of salva judum,” he said.
Karma held the CM responsible for debilitating salva judum and said the movement could have potentially become an effective tool to deal naxalism but the government did not show the willpower.



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