Author: PTI
Publication: The Pioneer
Date: March 6, 2010
URL: http://www.dailypioneer.com/240390/Maoists-will-overthrow-govt-much-before-2050--Kishenji.html
A day after Union Home Secretary GK Pillai
said Maoists had plans to overthrow the Indian state by 2050, top Naxal leader
Koteswar Rao alias Kishenji tonight claimed it would be achieved much before
that date.
"We will overthrow the Indian government
much before 2050," Kishenji told PTI from an undisclosed location.
He claimed the Maoists had their own army
with the help of which it would overthrow the Indian state much before 2050.
He said the Maoists had offered a 72-day peace
offer and "the question of regrouping does not arise. (Union Home minister
P) Chidambaram is trying to divert the attention of the people from the real
problem."
He said it was for the Centre to act on the
peace offer. "We are fully prepared for a long-term revolution against
the government and so we don't need any specific time to restructure ourselves."
On Pillai's contention yesterday that some
ex-army personnel were helping Maoists, he said "we don't need the support
of any army man. For the last 30 years, we know the type of war we do better
than any military officer."Reiterating that the repeated offer of talks
by the Maoists had been turned down, Kishenji said "we have repeatedly
offered talksto the government but it has been turned down."
Claiming that innocent people were being killed
in the name of tackling Maoists, he said "we are trying to save them
from state-sponsored terrorism."
He also denied West Bengal Director General
of Police Bhupinder Singh's claim that arrested Maoist leader Telegu Dipak
had links with ULFA and Kashmir militants.
"A lot of rumours are being spread deliberately
about the arrest of Telugu Deepak. He does not have any connection with any
terrorist organisation."
He said Deepak was not a member of the Maoist
military commission as the ultras did not have any such organisation. "We
have only a state committee, central committee and politburo."
Dipak, he said, was only a state committee
member who was in charge of Nandigram.
