Thursday, Mar 28, 2024 | Last Update : 03:07 PM IST

  India   Naxals plan new guerrilla zone beyond Bastar

Naxals plan new guerrilla zone beyond Bastar

Published : Oct 27, 2016, 1:04 am IST
Updated : Oct 27, 2016, 1:04 am IST

CPI (Maoist) is reportedly working on a plan to create a new guerrilla zone along the Chhattisgarh-Maharashtra-Madhya Pradesh border region as an “extension” to its current stronghold of Bastar, Naxal

CPI (Maoist) is reportedly working on a plan to create a new guerrilla zone along the Chhattisgarh-Maharashtra-Madhya Pradesh border region as an “extension” to its current stronghold of Bastar, Naxal documents seized by security forces in a rebel camp have disclosed.

The proposed new red zone would support Maoists’ twin strategy of providing escape route to rebels in the face of intensifying counterinsurgency measures in Bastar in Chhattisgarh and reclaim it by engaging the troopers in the proposed “extended” guerrilla zone, the seized Naxal documents have revealed.

“The Naxal documents detailing the strategy on forming a new guerrilla zone as extended red zone of Bastar along border regions of three adjoining states has been recovered along with explosives during a raid on a Maoist camp in Chuikhadan forest along the border region of Rajnandagaon district in Chhattisgarh and Balaghat district in MP,” sources in state intelligence bureau (SIB) said on Wednesday.

The proposed new guerrilla zone, nestled in Satpura hill range, is spread over eight districts in three states of Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra and MP. It will facilitate CPI (Maoist) to expand its base towards north and east of Bastar. Of the eight districts, Maoists have already established their base in Rajnandgaon in Chhattisgarh, Balaghat in MP and Gadchhiroli in Maharashtra.

The reds are on their way to expand to other border districts of Kawardha and Mungeli in Chhattisgarh, Mandla and Dindouri in MP and Gondia in Maharashtra.

The new guerrilla zone would function under the Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee (DKSZC), the most powerful entity of CPI (Maoist) in India, a counterinsurgency officer told this newspaper quoting the Naxal documents.

Location: India, Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal