Maoist movement in the country will disappear within seven to eight years, Inspector General of CRPF M. Vishnuvardhana Rao said here on Wednesday.
“The party’s leadership is ageing, there are no second rung leaders to replace the present leaders and lumpen elements have joined the party and they cannot carry forward the party,” Mr. Vishnuvardhana Rao observed. He is on an inspection tour of the 198{+t}{+h}Battalion of the CRPF near Kailasagiri. The official inaugurated a model air-conditioned mess-cum-recreation room for other ranks on the premises of the battalion. He found a lot of difference in the party from what it was in 1980s and present day. Then the leaders were committed and have studied and understood the party ideology but at present only lumpen elements who were given arms, were being recruited. Then the present old leaders were not understanding the change of times and blindly following the old theories and practices.
The fact that government schemes were reaching the poor should not be forgotten and the officers were going to the villages. The belief that power would come through the barrel of a gun would not hold in such a development in a democratic set up, the IG said. The police were also involved in community policing, he added. DIG of CRPF A. Srinivas, Commandant of the Battalion Nisheet Kumar and other officials took Mr. Rao around the Battalion.
