A Violent Peoples Struggle in Central India

The central India is rocked again by the violent attack on the public infrastructure and present system of governance. The massive movement of people with arms in central India, has made Indian government position a similar to civil war, so why not declare it. You have people taken arms against state, which is termed as 'terrorist' by the cheif minister of democratically elected state government. No doubt state is harmed by repeated attack on the civilian population who are supporters of the current establishment. Its unfortunate that people have to take arms in their hand to ask for fruits of 'economic growth'. The repeated failure of government and attitude of officials towards the people has led to such a situation. Its not what the government could not provide to them, but they are against the policy of government which takes away what ever little resources they possesed.

The young generations in the cities of India, those who supported in the popular governments of leading political parties are unable to understand the sudden violent killing by the armed people in the central India. The people who are engaged in the violence are aligned to method which they had learned from ages. They had never been under any government, during Mughals, British or present Indian governments. Neither the governments bother them to distrub their social and ecological character, till the demand for forest and water resources compelled the governments to take possession of these resources for the larger benefits state.

This resource capturing by the government through legislation has alineated a large number of people who often did not thought about what exists beyond their natural limits. Its understanfing of this thought which is missing in the present generations. Often they try to equate the peoples taking arms to that of terrorists in J&K and Punjab. The people who are fighting demand a system acceptable to them, what this can be? Whose ideology they follow? etc is the task of intellectuals to dwell. The governments need to understand the situation from the prespective of the development verses rights of these people.

The killing by the armed people of the civilians cannot be justified, but by labelling thems as thugs and goons are not proper when state knows the extent of the problem and mass character of this armed struggle (235 districts and nearly 1.0 million population are actively supporting the cause in five to eight states of country).

The conflict situation in the central India is spreading towards east, west and south of India wherein the people have started asking for their rights and questioning the easy flow of finance and natural resources to large corporate bodies. This alarming situation when there is knowledge that its the failure of state and system of governence which has resulted in such violent peoples struggle in Central India.