This will be done much before that date: Naxal leader

KOLKATA (Agencies) - A day after Indian Home Secretary G K Pillai said Maoists had plans to overthrow the Indian democracy through their armed struggle and want to control the government by 2050, top Naxal leader Koteswar Rao alias Kishenji on Saturday night claimed it would be achieved much before that date.
We will overthrow the Indian government much before 2050, Kishenji said from an undisclosed location, claiming that the Maoists had their own army with the help of which it would overthrow the Indian state much before 2050.
He said the Maoists had offered a 72-day peace offer and the question of regrouping does not arise. (Union Home minister P) Chidambaram is trying to divert the attention of the people from the real problem.
He said it was for the Centre to act on the peace offer. We are fully prepared for a long-term revolution against the government and so we dont need any specific time to restructure ourselves.
On Pillais contention Friday that some ex-army personnel were helping Maoists, he said, We dont need the support of any army man. For the last 30 years, we know the type of war we do better than any military officer.
Reiterating that the repeated offer of talks by the Maoists had been turned down, Kishenji said, We have repeatedly offered talks to the government but it has been turned down.
Claiming that innocent people were being killed in the name of tackling Maoists, he said we are trying to save them from state-sponsored terrorism.
He also denied West Bengal Director-General of Police Bhupinder Singhs claim that arrested Maoist leader Telegu Dipak had links with ULFA and Kashmiri freedom fighters.
A lot of rumours are being spread deliberately about the arrest of Telugu Deepak. He does not have any connection with any terrorist organisation.
He said Deepak was not a member of the Maoist military commission as the ultras did not have any such organisation. We have only a state committee, central committee and politburo.
Addressing a seminar on Left Wing Extremism Situation in India on Friday, Indian Home Secretary Gopal K Pillai said Maoists had plans to overthrow the Indian democracy through their armed struggle and want to control the government by 2050. He said the Maoists might be getting the help of some former soldiers in carrying out subversive activities.
The overthrow of the Indian state is not something they are willing to do tomorrow or the day after. Their strategy, according to a booklet they circulated, is that they are looking for at 2050, some documents say in 2060, he said.
According to Pillai, Naxals were not looking at to overthrow the Indian state in 2012 or 2013, it was a long steady plan and in the past 10 years they slowly build up the movement.
Now they can bring many sectors of Indian economy into their knees. But they dont want to do it today. They know that if they do that now, the state will come very hard. They are not fully prepared to face the onslaught of the state machinery. So, they would rather go very slowly, he said.
The Indian Home Secretary said the Maoists were a very highly motivated and well trained force like any armed force of any country and they could be help by some ex-army personnel.
Giving reason for this conclusion, Pillai said after launching any attack, the Naxals conduct a post-mortem and analyse the whole operation.
After every attack, they do a post-mortem and analysis. The analysis is as good as armed forces of any country does, he said.