This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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Maoists in India rise against the government and record their protest by attacking the ruling party’s rally in Chhattisgarh on Saturday. The attack resulted in the death of 28 people, including senior Congress party leader Mahendra Karma, state’s Congress committee Chief Nand Kumar Patel and his son, Dinesh. Senior Congress party leader V. C. Shukla and several others are suffering from grave injuries.
“More than five of our police personnel have lost lives in the attack,” a top police official in the state, Himanshu Gupta, said.
Maoist rebels have been fighting against the system for over four decades. They demand the rights of tribal and rural people living in the remote areas of India. Maoist rebels, inspired by Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong, mostly live in the state of West Bengal where the movement began as a peasant uprising in the late 1980s.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress Party Chief Sonia Gandhi paid a visit to the injured congressmen on Sunday. Highly condemning the violent act, the Prime Minister said such incidents are only aimed at weakening the country.
“We will pursue the perpetrators of this crime with urgency and I can assure the nation that the government is committed to bringing them to justice. Those who commit such dastardly crimes are working against the interests of peace and development in the area,” PM Singh said.
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