GULBARGA: Chief Minister N. Dharam Singh on Thursday took exception to the statement of Director-General of Police B.N.P. Albuquerque on proscribing the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and its 32 frontal organisations in the State.

Mr. Singh said the State Government has banned these organisations keeping in mind the law and order situation and to safeguard the lives and property of the people. Reacting to the statement of Mr. Albuquerque that the police did not have any information on imposing ban on Maoists, Mr. Singh told presspersons that the police officials may be unaware of the decision of the State Government.

The Chief Minister said the political leaders faced an imminent threat from the naxalites. "My life is also under threat from naxalites and I do not know when they will strike against me," he said.

He said the naxalites are slowly spreading their activities to new areas and complimented the quick action of the police in identifying the "hideout" of the naxalites in Gurmitkal in Gulbarga district from where the killers of Andhra Pradesh MLA Narsa Reddy at Narayanpet in Mehboobnagar District hatched the plan to execute the MLA and have got information that the killers had purchased a sim card in Yadgir in Gulbarga District.

The Chief Minister said naxalites and their frontal organisations were active in Kolar, Shimoga, Chikmagalur, Udupi, Dakshina Kannada, Davangere, Bagalkot, Belgaum, Gulbarga, Bidar and Raichur districts and in the villages that border Andhra Pradesh and a close vigil is kept on all these districts against any overt or covert activities of naxalites. The Chief Minister said the Government is prepared to hold talks with the naxalites, but on a condition that they should drop their arms and eschew violence. On the support to naxalite activities by few intellectuals, the Chief Minister said that he could not understand the action of these intellectuals supporting the naxalites involved in senseless killing of the innocent people.

Sympathy

He said the Government is sympathetic to the problems faced by the tribal people in the forests, whose cause is being taken up by the naxalites now.

The Government has taken steps to identify the socio-economic problems of the tribal people and finding a permanent solution to it.

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