Communist / Maoist Ideology : A Menace India Needs to Get Rid Off

1. National Emergency and the Maoist Movement

The anniversary of the Internal Emergency declared by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on 25^th June 1975 to save her crown has become an annual ritual. The new generation of youth do not know the significance of the two-year long dark days of the internal emergency which saw civil rights, and freedom of speech and expression getting strangulated as part of Gandhi’s mission to subvert the Allahabad High Court verdict in an election petition against her filed by a political light weight by name Raj Narayan, leader of one of the many socialist parties in the country.

Justice Jagmohan Lal Sinha who heard the petition unseated Gandhi from the chair of Prime Minister and also as a member of Parliament for six years for violating the representation of people act and misusing her official position and Government machinery during the 1971 Lok Sabha election. When the people got the chance to vote in the 1977 General Election, the Congress suffered the worst defeat it had faced till then.

But in Kerala, the General Election results turned out to be a major shock as the Congress and its allies swept the poll by winning all the 20 Lok Sabha seats at stake from the State. The dark days of emergency saw hundreds of activists of the Opposition getting jailed and some of them facing Police atrocities. But what stood out during the period was the wiping out of the Naxalite movement from the State by the Crime Branch of the Kerala Police. The man who made this possible was Jayaram Padikkal, a young IPS officer who had become a DIG at the age of 39. Padikkal was given a ‘blank cheque’ by the then home minister of the State K Karunakaran, a Congress leader and the Police officer did not let his minister down.

All Maoists who were addressed as Naxalites were finished off in the State much to the anguish of their sponsors. The period 1968 to 1975 had seen many gruesome murders in Kerala attributed to the Maoists. They claimed that they were out to annihilate the zamindari system by executing the landlords. What went unnoticed by the civil society was that the Maoists had selected their targets carefully; their victims were Hindus and that too forward castes like Menons and Nairs. Thanks to the timely intervention of Padikkal and his ‘boys’, the Maoists had to run away from their strongholds, mainly the reserve forests in Kerala.

But the Maoists and Marxists with the active support of evangelists unleashed a media campaign against Padikkal, terming him as corrupt, cruel and an embodiment of all that is bad. The truth was light years away from what they spread as sensational news. More about it on another occasion. The focus is about the Red Corridor linking Nepal’s Pasupathinath Temple and Tirupati Balaji Temple in Andhra Pradesh. The Maoists with the support of foreign funded Christian Missionaries wanted to establish a Christian Republic in the sub- continent and that was how the Maoist movement took roots in the country. Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had told that the Maoist menace had infested nearly 600 Districts in the country. But as on 2025, it is in its last phase of destruction. According to Amit Shah, union minister for home, the Maoists-infested Districts in this region has been brought down from 123 to just 6 and the red extremists would become a thing of the past by next year. “By 31st March 2026, the entire country will be free of the Naxal menace,” Amit Shah has said.

2. Deadly Combination of the Communists and the Congress

Maoists or the Naxalites had gained a strong foothold in India, especially in the region that fell between Nepal and Andhra Pradesh. What started as an eccentric idea by a former CPI(M) leader Charu Majumdar of Bengal was nurtured and strengthened by the Congress and the Communists as part of their mission to obliterate Sanatan Dharma. Hundreds of Hindu monks were assassinated by the Maoists with the tacit support provided by the Christian missionaries and Jihadis.

An armed uprising by peasants in West Bengal’s Darjeeling District in March 1967 saw the beginning of Maoism in India. Since it took place at Naxalbari village, the movement got the name Naxalites. Illiterate people working in plantations got enthused by the speeches delivered by Communist leaders and they took swords and machetes and murdered dozens of Policemen in the village.

The villagers had been indoctrinated by the Communist Party leaders that if they got rid of Policemen and zamindars in the village, it would usher in revolution and they would be their own masters. There are reports that Majumdar and his cohorts provided the plantation workers and peasants enough country made arrack/liquor (of course, free of cost) and this had taken them to a state of hallucination. The rest is history. The Chinese media led by People’s Daily and Radio Beijing described the uprising by the peasants as ‘Spring Thunder Over India’.

The master brains behind this movement attracted the youth with songs like ‘Buffalo Soldier In the Heart of America’ sung by Bob Marely, a Jamaica-born musician who was addicted to cannabis and marijuana. The Indian youth had no qualms in accepting Marley and aping his lifestyle. The Naxalite movement caught up in States where there was a strong Communist presence. When the Communists, especially the Marxists, found that the Marxist-Leninist ideology of the Naxalbari spirit was eating into their strength as thousands of CPI(M) workers ditched the party and joined hands with the CPI(M-L) activists.

The leaders of the CPI(M-L), who were renamed as Maoists, wanted to make fast bucks and they targeted land owners (zamindars) and industrial barons. They succeeded in making the university campuses the breeding ground of the Marxist-Leninist ideology.

The intellectual class which wanted to lead the life of royalty without any hard work made the poor workers their cannon fodder. What does an illiterate and poor worker in a tea plantation know about the country in which he lives ? For these workers, the estates where they work and live is their Nation.

The Maoists made use of this ignorance of the workers and the leaders became multi-millionaires. The civil society chipped in with organisations like People’s Union for Civil Rights and Democratic Rights. The losers were the workers who sacrificed their lives for these party bosses. The Maoists infiltrated all sections of the country including Army, Navy and Air Force.

This writer has seen Maoist leaders making their presence incognito in Bhabha Atomic Research Centre at Trombay, the hub of India’s nuclear development programme, to recruit young comrades.

Since the Congress leaders were dependent on the Maoists for their electoral wins, party leaders yielded miles when the red terrorists asked for inches. Thousands of poor people fell to the bullets of Maoists as these terrorists expanded their network across the country. States like Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, Maharashtra, Bihar and many parts of South India became their safe haven. Whoever challenged their presence or diktats were shot dead in public as a warning to others.

The Maoists had their supporters among the ‘intellectual class’. Arundhathi Roy, a writer who spat venom on Sanatana Dharma declared that Maoists were Gandhians with AK-47 in their hands. Roy justified the Maoists from all national and international platforms. She along with Medha Patkar unleashed a reign of terror in civil society. The duo led the agitation against Sardar Sarovar Dam built across Narmada River.

The Roy-Patkar duo with the active support of the Church and Maoists tried all the techniques in their armory to subvert the construction of the dam and they cited flimsy grounds to prevent the realization of Sardar Sarovar. The dam works which commenced in 1987 was dedicated to the Nation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2017. The Kutch and Saurashtra regions became an evergreen garden thanks to this dam, which is rated as the second largest concrete dam in the world measuring 1210 meters in length and has a height of 138.6 meters. The urban Naxalites are always in the forefront to sabotage the developmental activities planned in infrastructure, irrigation, drinking water, power generation and above all, the security of the Nation.

A major project which remains in limbo because of the resistance put up by the Maoists is the Inter Linking of Major Indian Rivers. The floodwaters from Brahmaputra, Yamuna, Krishna, Godavari and Mahanadi which get discharged into the Arabian sea and Bay of Bengal could be re-directed to water deficient regions through a network of canals so that the entire Nation will be spared of famine and drought. The farmers will be able to cultivate three crops every year and more regions could be brought under cultivation. But the Maoists would not allow this to happen as they fear of losing their support base among the people. If the drought and food scarcity is removed, the Red Terrorists would not get people for their public meetings and agitations. The infrastructure developmental activities in States like Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa are in a standstill because of the reign of terror unleashed by the Maoists in these areas.

(This is Part 1 of an Article, which will be concluded in our next Issue.)

(Courtesy : Article by Mr Kumar Chellapan, Senior Journalist, Kerala; 24.7.2025)

(Kumar Chellappan is a journalist based in Kochi and has worked in national dailies, TV, radio for more than 30 years.)

Naxalism was nurtured & strengthened by the Congress and Communists as part of their mission to obliterate Sanatan Dharma !