By SUNIL Sonkar
New Delhi, March 05 — Home secretary Gopal K Pillai said on Friday the Maoists have plans that by 2050 they will overthrow Indian democracy with the support of their armed struggle and can control the government then.
Pillai said this while addressing a seminar on the “Left Wing Extremism Situation in India” and added that the Maoists might be getting help from some of the former Indian soldiers in carrying out subversive activities.
Pillai said, “The overthrow of the Indian state is not something they are willing to do tomorrow or the day after. Their strategy, according to a booklet they circulated, is that they are looking for at 2050, some documents say in 2060.”
He also mentioned that the Naxals were not planning of overthrowing the Indian state in 2012 or even in 2013. He said they they have a steady long plan and they have build up their movement slowly in past 10 years.
The home secretary said, “Now they can bring many sectors of Indian economy into their knees. But they don’t want to do it today. They know that if they do that now, the state will come very hard. They are not fully prepared to face the onslaught of the state machinery. So, they would rather go very slowly.”
Pillai added further that the Maoists were a highly motivated force and also a well trained one similar to any armed force of a country.
He said, “They are very highly motivated, highly trained. I am quite certain that there are some, may be some ex-army or some people who have been with them.”
Pillai concluded by saying that after Naxals conduct a post-mortem after launching any attack and they also analyse the whole operation.
