{"id":7932,"date":"2009-06-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/06\/22\/india-bans-maoist-party\/"},"modified":"2009-06-22T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T12:00:00","slug":"india-bans-maoist-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/06\/22\/india-bans-maoist-party\/","title":{"rendered":"India Bans Maoist Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/8112103.stm\">news.bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[HPI note: According to the Indian police, Maoists were the perpetrators of the murder of Swami Laxshmananda in late 2008, causing months of civil unrest.]<\/p>\n<p>DELHI, INDIA, June 23, 2009: The Indian government has banned the Maoist Communist Party of India as a terrorist group, giving security forces enhanced powers of arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, five states across east and central India were put on a high alert as the Maoists called a two-day strike. One district in West Bengal briefly fell under almost total Maoist control. The rebels said the strike they declared was in response to the &#8220;war&#8221; on people in Lalgarh, West Bengal, where security forces launched an offensive in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s prime minister, Manmohan Singh, has described the Maoists as the greatest threat to India&#8217;s internal security. Correspondents say it is unclear how big an impact the ban will have in the fight against the rebels.<\/p>\n<p>Some of Bengal&#8217;s leading artists, including film-maker Aparna Sen, visited Lalgarh on Sunday in a attempt to broker peace between the West Bengal government and the Maoists.<\/p>\n<p>But neither appeared to be in a mood to talk.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Maoists have no specific demand,&#8221; said Bengal&#8217;s chief secretary Ashok Mohan Chakrabarty. Maoist leader Kishneji told the BBC: &#8220;We will show the government what is people&#8217;s power. No police or army can crush that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maoist-linked violence has killed 6,000 people in India over two decades. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: news.bbc.co.uk [HPI note: According to the Indian police, Maoists were the perpetrators of the murder of Swami Laxshmananda in,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}