Posted by: theo April 25, 2006
Maoists and new development!!
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Shiv, It may sound like chicken-or-the-egg kind of argument, but I think the insurgency is the outcome of 12 years of SPA rule. Yes, it definitely needs to be crushed, but it is like cutting a branch rather than removing the root of a weed. We may crush the Maoist violence. But unless the the social norms that existed in our society and more specifically in the parties are not changed, the insurgency will show up in one form or other. In other words, if all the politicians are corrupt like they were last 12 years, violence like Maoism will keep happening.
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