Communist Party of India (Maoist)

Communist Party of India (Maoist)
AbbreviationCPI (Maoist)
General SecretaryNambala Keshava Rao
Founded21 September 2004
Banned22 June 2009
Merger of • Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) People's War
 • Maoist Communist Centre of India
 • Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Naxalbari
Student wing • All India Revolutionary Students Federation
 • Radical Students Union
Youth wingRadical Youth League
Women's wingKrantikari Adivasi Mahila Sangathan
Paramilitary wings • People's Liberation Guerrilla Army: 9,000–10,000 (September 2013)
Trade union wingSingareni Karmika Samakya (alleged)
Cultural organisationChetna Natya Manch
Ideology
Political positionFar-left
Colours  Red
Motives
Active region(s)India
(mainly in Red Corridor)
Status
Annual revenue and means of revenueRs. 140 – 250 crores[5]
 • Abductions, extortions of landowners and companies[6][7][8]
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The Communist Party of India (Maoist) is a banned Maoist[9][10] communist political party and militant organization[11] in India which aims to overthrow the "semi-colonial and semi-feudal Indian state" through protracted people's war. It was founded on 21 September 2004, through the merger of the CPIML People's War and the MCCI. The party has been designated as a terrorist organisation in India under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act since 2009.[12][13][14]

In 2006, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh referred to the Maoists as "the single biggest internal security challenge" for India,[6][15] and said that the "deprived and alienated sections of the population" form the backbone of the Maoist movement in India.[16] The government officials have declared that, in 2013, 76 districts in the country were affected by "left wing extremism", with another 106 districts in ideological influence.[17] In 2020, the activities of the party began to increase again in Telangana and other areas.[18] Chhattisgarh is often affected by the party's militant activities.

In 2024, the party faced a major setback when the government increased their counterinsurgency operations in states affected by the insurgency.[19]

  1. ^ Myrdal, Jan (5 May 2014). "Appendix–III". Red Star Over India: As the Wretched of the Earth are Rising: Impressions, Reflections, and Preliminary Inferences. Kolkata: Archana Das and Subrata Das on behalf of Setu Prakashani. pp. 183–184. ISBN 978-93-80677-20-0. OCLC 858528997. The Dandakaranya Janathana Circars of today are the basis for the Indian People's Democratic Federal Republic of tomorrow.... In any social revolution, including the Indian New Democratic Revolution, the most crucial, central and main question is that of (state) power. Our party is striving to establish area wise power by mobilising people politically into the protracted people's war, building the people's army (in the form of guerrilla army) and destroying the state machinery of the enemy–ruling classes. It is a part of this revolutionary process that it is establishing Janathana Sarkars in Dandakaranya.
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  13. ^ "Most terrorists in India are Hindus, the ones whom we have conveniently labelled 'Maoist' instead of 'Hindu'". 4 April 2015.
  14. ^ "Most extremists in India are not Muslim – they are Hindu". 6 April 2015.
  15. ^ "India's Naxalite Rebellion: The red heart of India". The Economist. London. 5 November 2009. Retrieved 30 January 2010.
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