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Ban cannot solve naxalism: Bardhan

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NEW DELHI: Left parties and like-minded organisations on Saturday spoke out against the ban on the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and demanded that the arrested writers of Andhra Pradesh be released immediately.

Fielding questions at a briefing here, CPI general secretary A. B. Bardhan said "a ban cannot solve the problem of naxalism."

CPI (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation) general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya said the ban was intended to "encourage and sanctify the extra-judicial killings and other repressive measures unleashed by the police and paramilitary forces in the State."

The incarceration of the former Maoist emissaries Varavara Rao and Kalyan Rao exposed the Congress' pretensions to promote peace in Andhra Pradesh, he said. The ban along with the "police clamour" for invoking the Disturbed Areas Act "indicates a deeper and wider conspiracy by the A. P. Government to curb democracy and throttle the voice of the rural poor and girijans."

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