Citizens committee an initiative of corporate brokers : CPI
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Wed, Mar 17 2021 23:33 IST |
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Bastar/New Delhi, March 17 : The outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoist) has raised doubts over the formation of an 11-member citizens committee by Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel.
In a press release issued by Vikalp, the spokesperson of the CPI (Maoist) Dand Karanya Special Zonal Committee (DKSZC), the ultra-left outfit has said that the civil society created to establish peace in the Bastar region is an initiative of corporate brokers like journalist Shubhranshu Choudhary, who has been made its convener.
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In another audio recording, a poor local tribeswoman says her brother was jailed by the police last year after being falsely accused of being a guerrilla.
“Why has he stopped farming? Why does he sleep in houses other than his?” she says, parroting the police’s charges.
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