Intel Reports Suggest Maoists building ‘New Battle Zone’ on Madhya Pradesh-Chhattisgarh-Maharashtra Border

New Delhi: The constant successful counter-insurgency operations by the Indian Security Forces have instilled a fear of action amongst the Maoists forcing its top Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist)‘commanders’ to build a ‘new battlefield’ in Madhya Pradesh-Chhattisgarh-Maharashtra (MMC) tri-junction border for a new guerilla zone, suggests an intelligence report from the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW).

According to the covert Intelligence report, the Maoists are now planning to target Security Forces (SFs) from a different vicinity of their operational battle zone. The report says that Maoists wish to expand their battle zone towards north and then east to create a link corridor between Balaghat-Rajnandgaon-Kabirdham-Gondia.

The decision of expansion of Maoist activities on a larger scale in the MMC area was taken long ago, said Intelligence inputs, and a division of Maoists has been found active in the bordering area of Balaghat in Madhya Pradesh, Rajnandgaon in Chhattisgarh and Gondia in Maharashtra Districts.

Reportedly, the movement of Maoist cadres suggest that they were planning to launch offensive actions against the SFs in Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, and Odisha. Senior members of the area committee of Maoists have reportedly instructed their small action teams to identify and kill Special Police Officers (SPOs) and Intelligence staff of SFs as well as ‘Police informers’.

Maoists were opposed to Government-sponsored development activities. Their ‘commanders’, active in Sukma District of Chhattisgarh, held a meeting with the villagers and were contemplating to destroy the power plant situated at Penta village. They had also urged the villagers to help Maoists in stopping road construction activities, damage vehicles and Government property in the area.

It may be mentioned that the District Reserve Guard (DRG) in an encounter killed four Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres, including a Local Organization Squad (LOS) ‘commander’ in a forest near Gumiyabeda village in Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh on Sunday night last. (SATP Inputs)