The Naxal issue can be resolved only by involving tribals, downtrodden in the developmental activities. Unless they are benefited by development, given jobs, provide services like water, health, road, education, the issue cannot be checked, NCP chief and Union minister Sharad Pawar felt.
“Economic inequality was a reason which had led to discontent among tribals and other sections and to the growth of naxalism”.
“Someday or the other, he may take a different route, there is need to understand this. It is not only a law and order problem.”
Mr Pawar said that till the tribals and all other sections don’t feel stakeholders in the development of the country, naxalism will continue to use them.
He also asked youth of his party to take up the issues of urban people aggressively and if needed come to the streets. He said the number of people migrating to urban areas is increasing.
The NCP workers must address their problems of drinking water, housing, educaion, health and take it up aggressively.
Meanwhile, Union ministers of the Congress are coming out with various suggestion to check the Maoists.
Tribal affairs minister V. Kishore Chandra Deo dubbed anti-Maoist militia Salwa Judum as a “sinful strategy”, bringing to the fore apparent differences in the Congress over the approach to Maoists. Mr Deo warned that the nation will witness “worse consequences” if the Naxalite issue is treated as a mere law and order problem.