MoU signed between Maoists & MANIPUR Militants Statesman News ServiceKOLKATA, 5 OCT: In what appears to be a well calculated move to strengthen the supply line of arms and ammunition in the wake of a nationwide crackdown on Maoist terror modules by the Centre, the Communist Party of India (Maoist) has signed a "Memorandum of Understanding” with Manipur-based militant outfit Revolutionary Peoples’ Front recently. Speaking to The Statesman over phone, a politburo member of the CPI (Maoist), Kishenji, said both the parties have “agreed in principle” to extend "revolutionary, political and moral support" to each other to "overthrow common enemy" and fight against the capitalist design of development as well as "state oppression on the people". The top leaders of two parties ~ both declared as terrorist organisations by the Centre ~ met at an undisclosed location in Manipur in October last year to discuss "mutual understanding and friendship" between them. Following a two-day long discussion, a joint declaration was issued in which it was announced that both parties would lend "revolutionary support" to each other to strengthen liberation struggle. Demanding a separate country, the Revolutionary People's Front is unleashing an armed campaign in Manipur in protest against the Merger agreement of Manipur with the Dominion of India, Kishenji said adding that both parties have decided to give moral as well as political support to each other. Though the Maoist leader refused to describe the development as a tactical move to strengthen armoury of the both groups, security agencies consider the joint declaration to be a well thought-out move of both groups to increase their stock of arms. At a time when the Centre has launched a massive crackdown on terror modules across the country, the extremist outfits are constantly changing tactics to increase their armoury. Security agencies think that Maoists are also trying to come close to other north-east militant groups to spread their tentacles in these states as well as to remove blockade in the way of bringing in arms from neighbouring countries like Nepal and Bhutan.
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