Raman Singh struck deal with Naxals: Cong.

BENGALURU - 30.01.2015 : Digvijaya Singh, AICC general secretary and in-charge of Karnataka, during the meeting with the State Congress leaders, at Congress office, in Bengaluru on 30, 2015. Photo: K. Murali Kumar.

Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Tuesday accused Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh and other BJP leaders, who win elections from Naxalism-affected areas, of striking a “deal” with the guerrillas.

“I have said this before and am repeating, that Raman Singh and all those BJP leaders who have won from Naxalism-hit areas have struck a deal with Naxals and there is some exchange between them,” he said.

Mr. Singh said Naxalism could not be wiped out till the State government took tribals and those living in these areas into confidence and spoke to them. “You cannot end Naxalism till the time you talk to all,” he said.

The “inability” of the State government in fighting Naxalism lay in the “lack of will” of the Chief Minister, Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said. He took a swipe at BJP president Amit Shah over his party’s expansion plan.