Soon after the independence on 15 August 1947, Brahman ruled India started gobbling princely states. 365 states were made part of Indian Union many among them wanting to stay independent or become part of Pakistan. Later on, India broke Pakistan into two and guzzled Goa and Sikkim.
It also got caught up in insurgencies. Nagas followed by Mizos were among the first to demand separation in 1950s. Indian security forces have spent over 50 years combating left wing extremists, separatists and religious forces in large number of states of India where dozens of insurgencies/separatist movements are raging but have been unable to quash any. India is home to 19 insurgent movements waged by left wing extremist groups within its borders and there are hundreds of terrorist groups.
Maoist movement is raging in West Bengal, Bihar, Western Orissa, Jharkand, Chattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Eastern Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and several other regions.
Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Kerala have also now come under sway of Maoists. It is a popular movement and has massive support of people for their program and ideology. Maoists have appealed to the senses of the have-nots, who find their future in so-called democratic and shining India dark. Out of total 1.17 billion populations, over 39% of dispossessed Indians living below poverty line have hitched their wagon with Maoist movement led by Mupala Luxman Rao, which triggered in May 1969 in the form of peasant uprising in West Bengal against big Hindu landlords. They are hopeful that Maoists would bring a change in their wretched lives.
Maoist guerrillas threatened to kill Manmohan and Sonia Gandhi after the party was declared a terrorist group. They were reminded of meting the fate of Rajiv Gandhi at the hands of LTTE. In last July they gave one week notice to local Congress leaders in Jharkand to resign or be prepared to be taught a lesson. Maoists have adopted tactics of LTTE and fake Pakistani Taliban, ruthlessly killing police and govt officials, kidnapping for ransom and destroying property, attacking police stations and security check posts. There was linkage between Maoists and LTTE and latter provided them logistic support as well as training in explosives. In Chattisgarh, Naxals extort money from people to the tune of $60 million a year. 20,000 armed cadres of Maoists and around 50,000 members are active in 220 districts of country’s 608 districts (40% of Indian Territory) and 20 of 29 states. Since 2005, 1500 acts of violence by Naxals have taken place at an average of five a day and 60 killings per month.
Communist Party India (CPI-M) supported Maoists threat has been defined as India’s largest and most dangerous internal security threat. Naxalite insurgency in northeast of India known as Red Corridor has become so threatening that India is actively considering shifting 23 battalions of para-military forces from occupied Kashmir. Manmohan Singh admitted that Maoists pose biggest threat to Indian Union. India is equally disturbed about Maoist power in neighbouring Nepal where China commands strong influence. It does not rule out the possibility of Nepali Maos and Indian Maos forming a nexus duly supported by China.
Other dangerous insurgencies are in Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Kerala, Jammu & Kashmir, Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram, Manipur, Tripura, Maghalaya, Arunchal Pradesh, Bodoland and Gujarat. Khalistan movement waged by the Sikhs is still simmering in Punjab and aversion of Sikhs against Brahman Hindus has become deep-rooted. 12 out of 14 districts in Kashmir and 54 districts in northeastern seven sister states of India have been inflamed by religious and separatists groups. Hindu-Muslim riots in India have become a norm and in each riot the Muslims are blamed as well as vandalised. Gujarat carnage of the Muslims in 2002 at the hands of extremist Hindus fuelled Islamist Jihad and gave birth to Students Islamic Movement which was banned.
India is awash with home-grown terrorist organizations. All told there are 123 separatist and insurgent movements and terrorist groups in India based on left wing extremism and none is controllable. The insurgents have now acquired sophisticated weaponry and adopted sophisticated techniques. While over 7 lacs security forces are committed in Indian Held Kashmir since 1989, same number is employed in counter insurgency operations in other parts of India. The morale of Indian army and other paramilitary forces is at its lowest ebb. Suicide cases are also on the rise. Since January 2007, 125 army personnel have committed suicides in Kashmir alone. Cases of desertions and indiscipline have touched new heights and recruitment in army has dipped very low. Senior officers are involved in corruption scandals, promiscuous activities and in rapes of junior women army officers. Army officers in India have now been found linked with Hindu extremist groups carrying out acts of terror. There is large segment in armed forces which favours Hindu Rashtra with separate constitution and hates Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Since mid eighties, Hindu extremism is constantly on the rise. Baal Thackeray, head of Shiv Sena is notorious for stoking hatred against the Muslims and for indulging in subversive activities. He has urged Hindus to prepare suicide bombers to challenge Muslim extremism. Lt Gen retired Premnath Hoon and Col retired Jayant Chitale were among the founding members of Shiv Sena. Hoon proudly claimed that he was involved in training Hindu suicide bombers. Sangh Parivar is involved in almost all terror acts in India in which Pakistan was blamed. Patronised by BJP, it runs training centres in Gujarat and Maharashtra in full knowledge of all concerned. This outfit is involved in several acts of terror in India including demolition of Babri mosque in 1992, Samjhota express bombing in February 2007, bomb attacks in Muslim heavy Magalaon and several other places.
Avidhar linked with Sangh Parivar and having serving and retired Indian army officers as members was involved in Samjhota and Malegaon incidents. Maharashtra anti-terror squad Chief Hemant Karkare had broken this network and arrested Lt Col Purohit and 11 other accused. The accused had confessed masterminding Samjhota Express bombing in which 69 Pakistanis were burnt to death and their involvement in Malegaon bomb blasts in which the victims were Indian Muslims. A charge sheet was submitted to Mumbai court on 20 January 2008 by Karkare. India refuses to punish the guilty but is pressurising Pakistan to take action against culprits of Mumbai attacks without furnishing any evidence or court conviction.
RAW uses Sangh Pariwar, RSS, Shiv Sena, VHP, Abhinov Bharat, Avidhar and other Hindu terrorist organisations for internal and external targets. RAW has set up 26 training centres in Afghanistan along our western border where Chechens, Uzbeks, Tajiks, Afghans, Arabs and dissidents from Pakistan are trained as terrorists and suicide bombers and launched into Pakistan. Services of Indian Muslims and religious scholars to run madrassas are also being utilised.
Indian caste system is one of the major reasons that India didn’t become a cohesive unit. It has 350 languages and thousands of dialects. India suffers from ethnic insurgencies, ideological terrorism and religious jihad. 3% Brahmins and its 11% supporters are hated by great majority which is suffering at their hands. Low caste Dalits who are poorest of the poor, Muslims and Sikhs are the worst sufferers; they form over 80% of the population. 150 million Indian Muslims stand brutalized, humiliated and marginalized. Christians in India have always been subjected to ruthless vandalism; latest round was in Orissa in 2008. No minority has escaped persecution of Brahmins who are bigoted and intolerant towards religious minorities. Percentage of marginalized class in India is increasing placing India among the lowest 60 countries out of 193 countries. Secularism is a farce to keep all the communities together in bondage.
Corruption has become a grave socio-politico malady as politicians, bureaucrats, armed forces act in tandem to receive kickbacks. Bofors scandal of Rs. 64 crores is pending since 1990 in which PM Rajiv Gandhi was among the accused. Tehlka Commission of Inquiry had examined and identified corruption in 15 defence deals. There is rampant corruption particularly in defence deals in which margin of commission is heavy. Public accountability is non-existent and Hindu bigotry and intolerance is constantly on the rise.
Instead of attending to the miseries of 300 million downtrodden living below poverty line who commit suicide and sell their children, wives and kidneys to survive, insensitive Indian Brahman leadership suffering from megalomania and obsessed with becoming a global power has been constantly increasing defence budget from1987/88 onwards. Apart from maintaining exceptionally heavy sized forces, over 14 lacs security forces are employed on counter insurgency operations causing severe strains on Indian economy. Ambitious nuclear and space programs are impacting its economy. Instead of utilizing its resources for the alleviation of the sufferings of under-privileged, Indian rulers are investing billions in Afghanistan and spending huge amounts on modernizing its forces and on aimless clandestine operations against its neighbors.
Belatedly, Congress led UDA government has got concerned of the Maoist threat and is girding up its loins to crush it using military force. CPI-M has strongly opposed use of military in combating naxalite terror. If army is used, in all likelihood, it would backfire since it is a populist movement of the poor and has a just cause. It may impel Naxals to resort to suicide attacks and also seek help from Nepali Maoists. Visible cracks have appeared in the Indian Union, kept united through brute force. Indian leaders are in no mood to rein in Hindu extremist forces vying for Hindutva, or assuage sufferings of minorities in India, or are prepared to cast off their evil designs against its neighbors as well as their high sounding ambitions. Given the state of hopelessness among the have-nots in India and the momentum of insurgencies and terrorist movements, India is on the verge of implosion from within.
- Asian Tribune -
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