A key ‘tactician’ and organiser of the CPI (Maoist) is also reportedly a government functionary, and till recently he had his office in the State secretariat, no less.
Top Home Department sources told Deccan Herald that the organisational ‘fulcrum’ of the CPI (Maoist), earlier known as the People's War Group (PWG), was reportedly a clerk in the Rural Department and Panchayati Raj (RDPR), Bangalore Rural district.
“He used to leak vital information about key government projects and activities to the Maoist groups. The police tracked him for quite some time till they had conclusive proof of his involvement. They even covered some of their meetings in which the Maoists had information on some important and sensitive projects, obviously from this person,” the source said.
He added that based on an Intelligence input, the police monitored his activities and those of his allies. “Later, they informed the government and even requested them to transfer him out of Bangalore to North Karnataka, but he did not take the posting and now the government is considering his dismissal,” said the source.
According to reliable information, the Maoists have their State headquarter here. “They meet at least once a week at different places, to discuss their plans and to strengthen their cadre. These members belong to the overground (OG) wing of the Naxalites and are more into information gathering/dissemination and public relations,” he said.
The Naxalites have two types functionaries -- the OG wing and the underground (UG) one. “While the OGs are into building the network, the UGs execute the job and carry out attacks with the ultimate aim of running a parallel government,” he added.
Target: Southern States
Meanwhile, Central intelligence outfits have warned States, especially of the South, of extremist infiltration into government services. “There's information that members/sympathisers of militant groups are in government jobs. The focus is more on South India because of the region's economic prosperity,” said another senior officer.
The Maoist Communist Centre of India, the CPI (Marxist-Leninist) and the PWG merged to form a new entity, the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), on September 21, 2004.
The outfit is reportedly active in 13 States -- Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, West Bengal and Uttaranchal.
Their objective is to ‘liberate’ their proposed Compact Revolutionary Zone, which extends from Nepal through Bihar to Dandakaranya region (forest areas of Central India) down to Andhra Pradesh.