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Marxist–Leninist) Liberation Internal Security Insurgency (North-East) - M3T NSA2 NiPUN Leftism - JOB CUT M2BA www.nipunindia.in 1 www.nipunalambayan.in lektokn socialism WORLD - IDEOLOGY liberalism उदारवाद socialism lektokn capitalism प ूंजीवाद Marxism मार्क्सवाद freedom NiPUN equality 2 Laissez-faire policy अहतक्षेप नीतत Police state पुलि् रा煍य ्ुरक्षा-आूंतररक बाहरी Security-internal & external NiPUN www.nipunalambayan.com3 Don’t believe in Constitution – Political change by revolutions Election system CPI (Maoist)X CPI (ML) Election X & Movement Prohibition by government Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation NiPUN 4 www.nipunalambayan.com Leader Dipankar Bhattacharya Founded 1974 Headquarters U-90, Shakarpur, Delhi- NiPUN110092 Ideology Marxism 5 www.nipunalambayan.com Communist Party of India (Maoist) Leader(s) Muppala Lakshmana Rao Motives To "destroy" the "state machinery" of whom the Maoists view as "enemy-ruling classes" and establish what they envisage as "the Indian People's Democratic Federal Republic" Active region(s) India (mainly in Red Corridor) Ideology Marxism–Leninism–Maoism NiPUNCommunism Anti-Imperialism 6 leftism Insurgency- 70 decay Landless labor + marginal farmers Born 1918 Siliguri, Bengal Presidency,Britis 1 h India SC/ST - Died July 28, 1972 4 Calcutta, West Bengal, India NiPUN 7 •In India, insurgency is in two area- north east and leftism (Vampanthi- some states like Bihar, Jharkhand etc. All these groups use violence for their aim/goal out of some group have started accepting Indian democratic system but some do not accepted like CPI (maoisist) –this group boycotts elections system government has banned it. Naxilism started in decades of 70’s charu majumdar in the starting period by this movement small labours and farmers joined but presently SC-ST joined more in no. Population of SC/ST in India =1/4 It becomes a big issue cause of joining of this movement by SC/ST SC- low condition in societyNiPUN and unemployed etc. ST- illiteracy ,poverty, malmitrition, live in forest areas ,exploitation by businessmen government projects because 40% people migrate cause of development projects from their native places present demand of all these groups are water ,forest & land 8 The term Naxalites comes from Naxalbari, a small village in West Bengal, where a section of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) led by Charu Majumdar, Kanu Sanyal, and Jangal Santhal initiated a violent uprising in 1967. On 18 May 1967, the Siliguri Kishan Sabha, of which Jangal was the president, declared their support for the movement initiated by Kanu Sanyal, and their readiness to adopt armed struggle to redistribute land to the landless. The following week, a sharecropper near Naxalbari village was attacked by the landlord's men over a land dispute. On 24 May, when a police team arrived to arrest the peasant leaders, it was ambushed by a group of tribals led by Jangal Santhal, and a police inspector was killed in a hail of arrows. This event encouraged many SanthalNiPUNtribals and other poor people to join the movement and to start attacking local landlords. 9 These conflicts go back to the failure to implement the 5th and 6th Schedules of the Constitution of India. In theory these Schedules provide for a limited form of tribal autonomy with regard to exploiting natural resources on their lands, e.g. pharmaceutical and mining, and 'land ceiling laws', limiting the land to be possessed by landlords and distribution of excess land to landless farmers and labourers. The caste system is another important social aspect of these conflicts. Mao Zedong provided ideological leadership for the Naxalbari movement, advocating that Indian peasants and lower class tribals overthrow the government and upper classes by force. A large number of urban elites were also attracted to the ideology,NiPUN which spread through Charu Majumdar’s writings, particularly the 'Historic Eight Documents which formed the basis of Naxalite ideology. 10 न啍सलवाद क륍युतनट 啍ाूंततकाररयⴂ के उ् आूंदोिन का अनौपचाररक नाम है जो भारतीय क륍युतनट आूंदोिन के फिव셂प उ配पन्न ुहआ। न啍सल श녍द की उ配पत्ति पश्चचम बूंगाि के छोटे ्े गााँव न啍सलबाड़ी ्े हुई है जहााँ भारतीय क륍य तनट पाटी के नेता चा셂 मजमदार और कान ्ान्याि ने १९६७ मे ्िा के खििा괼 एक ्शर आूंदोिन की शु셁आत की। मजमदार चीन के क륍य तनट नेता माओ配्े तुूंग के बहुत बडे प्रशूं्कⴂᴂ म ्े थे और उनका मानना था कक भारतीय म焼दरⴂ और कक्ानⴂ की ददसशाु के लिये ्रकारी नीततयााँ श्ज륍मेदार हℂ श्ज्की वजह ्े उ楍च वगⴂ का शा्न तूंर और फिव셁प ृ त्तितूंरक पर वचसव थात्तपत हो गया है। इ् न्यायहीन दमनकारी वचसव को केवि ्शर 啍ाूंतत ्े ही ्माप्त ककया जा ्कता है। १९६७ मᴂ "नर्क्िवाददयⴂ" ने क륍युतनट 啍ाूंततकाररयⴂ की एक अखिि भारतीय ्मन्वय ्लमतत बनाई। इन त्तवद्रोदहयⴂ ने औपचाररक तौर पर वयूं को भारतीय क륍युतनट पाटी ्े अिग कर लिया और ्रकारNiPUN के खििा괼 भलमगत होकर ्शर िडाई छेड दी। १९७१ के आूंतररक त्तवद्रोह( श्ज्के अगआु ्配यनाराय ल्ूंह थे) 11 2015 11 April 2015 : 7 Special Task Force (STF) personals were killed in a Maoist ambush near Kankerlanka, Sukma, Chhattisgarh. 12 April 2015 : 1 BSF Jawan was killed in a Maoist attack near Bande, Kanker, Chhattisgarh. 13 April 2015 : 5 Chhattisgarh Armed Force (CAF) Jawans were killed in a Maoist ambush near Kirandul, DantewadaNiPUN, Chhattisgarh 12 •1 Arunachal Pradesh - NLCT •2 Assam •1 ULFA Date 1964 – present •2.2 NDFB Assam, Manipur, Nagaland, Tripura, •2.3 KLNLF Location •2.4 UPDS Meghalaya and Mizoram, Northeast India •2.5 DHD Result Conflict ongoing •2.6 KLO •3 Manipur •3.1 UNLF •3.2 PLA, PREPAK and KCP •4 Nagaland •4.1 NSCN(IM) •4.2 NSCN(K) •5 Tripura •5.1 NLFT •5.2 ATTF •6 Meghalaya NiPUN •6.1 HNLC •6.2 ANVC •6.3 GNLA •7 Mizoram •7.1 HPC-D 13 List of Naxalite and Maoist groups in India Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Star led by K.N.Ramachandran Centre of Indian Communists Communist Ghadar Party of India Communist Party of India (Maoist) led by Muppala Lakshmana Rao -- result of the September 2004 merger of the Maoist Communist Centre of India (MCC) and the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) People's War, also known as the People's War Group (PWG) Communist League of India (Marxist-Leninist) Communist Party of Bharat led by Barnali Mukherje Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Naxalbari led by Rauf Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Janashakti led by Koora Rajanna Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Janashakti led by Ranadheer Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Janashakti led by Chandra Pulla Reddy Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Bhaijee Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Prajashakti Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Praja Pratighatana Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Prathighatana Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Mahadev Mukherjee) led by Mahadev Mukherjee NiPUN Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Central Team 14 Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Kanu Sanyal) led by Kanu Sanyal Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation led by Dipankar Bhattacharya Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Flag led by Unnichekkan Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) New Democracy led by Chandra Pulla Reddy and Yatendra Kumar Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Somnath led by Somnath Chatterjee Ukhra and Pradip Banerjee Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Shantipal Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Jan Samvad Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Nai Pahal Communist Party of IndiaNiPUN (Marxist-Leninist) New Proletarian Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Maharashtra Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Organizing Committee 15 Communist Party of United States of India Communist Revolutionary Centre Provisional Central Committee, Communist Party of India (Marxist- Leninist) led by Satyanarayan Singh and Santosh Rana Communist Party Reorganization Centre of India (Marxist-Leninist) Marxist-Leninist Committee led by K. Venkateswar Rao Re-organizing Committee, Communist League of India (Marxist-Leninist) Revolutionary Communist Centre of India (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist) Revolutionary Socialist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Revolutionary Communist Unity Centre (Marxist-Leninist) Lal Jhanda Dal Unity Centre of Communist Revolutionaries of India (Marxist-Leninist) (D.V. Rao) Unity Centre of Communist Revolutionaries of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Ajmer group) Maoist Communist Party of ManipurNiPUN 16 # of # of Affected Districts State Districts in Districts Districts Affected State Affected Andhra Guntur, Prakasam, Anantapur, Kurnool, Vizianagaram, East 13 8 Pradesh Godavari, Srikakulam, Visakhapatnam Aurangabad, Gaya, Rohtas, Bhojpur, Kaimur, East Bihar 38 11 Champaran, West Champaran, Sitamarhi, Munger, Nawada, Jamui Hazaribagh, Lohardaga, Palamu, Chatra, Garhwa, Ranchi, Jharkhan Gumla, Simdega, Latehar, Giridih, Koderma, Bokaro, 24 18 d Dhanbad, East Singhbhum, West Singhbhum, Saraikela Kharsawan, Khunti, Ramgarh Chhattisg Bastar, Bijapur, Dantewada, Kanker, Rajnandgaon, Sarguja, 27 9 arh Jashpur, Koriya, Narayanpur, Sukma Maharash 35 3 Gadchiroli, Chandrapur, Gondia tra Malkangiri, Ganjam, Koraput, Gajapati, Rayagada, Odisha 30 9 Mayurbhanj, Sundargarh, Deogarh, Kandhamal Telangan Warangal, Karimnagar, Adilabad, Khammam, Medak, 10 8 a NiPUNNalgonda, Mahbubnagar, Nizamabad Uttar 75 3 Sonbhadra, Mirzapur, Chandauli Pradesh West 19 3 Bankura, West Midnapore, Purulia Bengal Madhya 50 1 Balaghat 17 Pradesh Total 318 77 SC Low condition unemployment ST Illiteracy, poverty, Malnutrition Live in far areas Exploration by business
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