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Monday, Oct 11, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Prakash Singh favours talks

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, OCT. 10. Prakash Singh, who headed the one-man commission of inquiry into the abortive attempt by the PW on the former Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, last year, is for talks between the State Government and the naxalites.

When the Centre can have a dialogue at the highest level with the National Socialist Council of Nagaland and the Hurriyat Conference there is no reason why the State Government and the PW cannot sit across the table, he said in the inquiry report released recently.

The commission recalled how the Mizo leader, Laldenga, who waged a relentless battle for 10 years also went to the negotiating table, signed an accord with the Centre and went on to become the Chief Minister of Mizoram.

The commission was, however, highly critical of the PW leadership, which it said was caught in a `time warp'. The leadership was repeating outdated jargon, which Russia had buried and China had forgotten. The world was on the move and so was India.

PW should change stand

There was resurgence in Indian economy and Andhra Pradesh, too, was on the road to progress. Therefore, the naxalites would do well to shed their baggage of hatred and acrimony and start a new chapter. About the future of naxalism, the commission discussed that it would continue to exist to the extent it espoused social and economic causes and it may even thrive wherever there was glaring inequality or outrageous discrimination.

Any political designs of the PW to capture power outside the democratic process were doomed to fail and only bring unnecessary suffering to people.

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