LALGARH: In a bid to wipe out the CPM from Jangalkhand, Maoists in Lalgarh forced 19 CPM activists to quit the party on Sunday. File photo
Soon after announcing that the 19 CPM men have voluntarily quit their party, the People’s Committe against Police Atrocities (PCPA) took out a huge rally near Dharampur. Several Maoists, too, took part in the procession. Interestingly, hundreds of policemen and paramilitary personnel have been camping in the area for the past few weeks.
Those who were forced to quit CPM on Sunday included Suman Singh, the pradhan of Baita gram panchayat in Lalgarh, and Pritam Mullick, CPM leader and upa-pradahan of Manikpara panchayat in Jhargram block. They promised not to keep in touch with their comrades. Mullick’s name was there on the list of nine CPM leaders whom the Maoists had threatened to behead unless they quit the party. Read the rest of this entry »
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