In the wake of repeated attacks by Maoists on CRPF, the government is working out a plan for the redeployment of paramilitary forces engaged in anti-Naxal operations in states.
The development, two days after Naxals ambushed and killed 27 CRPF jawans in Chhattisgarh, comes as the CPI-Maoist vowed to continue attacking security forces.
"We will continue to hit hard security personnel because their atrocities against local innocent people are continuing," Gudsa Usendi, spokesperson of CPI-Maoist's frontal unit, DK Special Zonal Committee, told a news channel in Chhattisgarh from an undisclosed location.
The spokesperson refused to give details about the June 29 attack that left 27 security personnel dead in Narayanpur district, a part of 40,000 sq km restive Bastar region.
The guerrilla evaded questions such as how many Maoists were killed, how many rebels took part in the ambush, who led the attack, and how many and what kind of weapons the Maoists had looted from the slain men.
"The June 29 attack was part of Maoists' continuous retaliation against police atrocities on locals," he said.
A plan is now being worked out for reconfiguration, redeployment and strengthening of the paramilitary forces in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa and West Bengal phasewise in consultation with the state governments.
"It has become necessary to review the deployment of forces and a suitable decision will be taken according to the operational requirement and developmental reasons," a Home Ministry official said.
However, no central forces deployed in a particular state will be moved out from that state.
According to the plan, which will be implemented first in Chhattisgarh where CRPF has faced maximum casualties in the recent past, the distances of troop posts will be reduced and in some cases the number of personnel will be increased while in other cases the posts will be relocated.
After Chhattisgarh, the plan will be implemented in Jharkhand, Orissa and West Bengal.
Home Minister P Chidambaram had yesterday said that "relocation and reconfiguration" of paramilitary forces in Chhattisgarh may be required as some of them were not operationally viable.
"These deployments have been made in 2007 and 2008. So, I have asked the Chhattisgarh government to examine the deployments in 2010," he had said.
Chhattisgarh police to adopt aggressive strategy' Chhattisgarh police will adopt an aggressive strategy while dealing with the Naxalites in the wake of increasing attacks by the outlaws, State Home Minister Nanki Ram Kanwar said today.
The police will adopt an aggressive stance against Naxals and will try to eliminate them rather than risking their lives, Kanwar told reporters here.
A change in strategy has been necessitated following three major strikes in the State in which the lives of many jawans were lost, he said.
Kanwar said Chief Minister Raman Singh held a high level meeting to discuss the issue but refused to divulge further details.
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