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KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee ruled out outlawing the Maoists in the State even as he asserted that the ultras are behind the ongoing tribal agitation in Paschim Medinipur district. The Lalgarh squad of the outfit was responsible for a blast that narrowly missed his convoy and those of Union Ministers Ram Vilas Paswan and Jitendra Prasada on November 2, he told the Assembly here on Thursday. The leader of the squad is believed to be the brother of a local Trinamool Congress leader, he added. “What is required is to politically isolate the extremist outfit by winning over the confidence of those sections of the tribals that are vulnerable to the Maoist manipulation by taking forward the development process in the region. Police action is not the sole way to counter the extremists,” Mr. Bhattacharjee said. The agitation of a section of the tribal population in protest against alleged police excesses that has resulted in parts of the district being cut off has been continuing for nearly four weeks now. Roads leading to the area have been dug up and roadblocks set up, virtually rendering inaccessible parts of Jhargram subdivision including Lalgarh. The protestors are demanding that the local police authorities publicly apologise for the excesses committed on local villagers during raids to apprehend those responsible for the November 2 blast as well as the release of tribals arrested in connection with the incident. The agitators were getting the support of the Trinamool Congress and the Congress, Mr. Bhattacharjee said. His government is not averse to talks with the protestors but the latter cannot determine the venue , he added.
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