Lalgarh Maoists

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  Bengal Tiger Carcass Found With Spear Through Its Face

  Lalgarh in West Bengal, once active with Maoists, has now become the killing field of an adult Royal Bengal tiger. The endangered beast was discovered in a forest in the area with a spear through its face.

• Mamata criticises Maoists and cautions intellectuals

  On her first visit as chief minister, to Lalgarh the former Naxal hotbed, Mamata Banerjee today criticised the Maoists' cult of violence and killing but did not offer talks with them. Addressing a rally, she also also hit out at the section of intellectuals in Kolkata for indulging Maoists.

• Lalgarh firing death toll rises to nine

  With the death of an injured woman undergoing treatment, the death toll in the January 7 firing at a Lalgarh village in West Midnapore district rose to nine.     Hospital sources said Arati Mondal, who was admitted to SSKM hospital died of her bullet wounds on Sunday morning.     She was rushed to the hospita...

• Maoists behead Lalgarh villager

  Maoists have struck again in West Bengal. They kidnapped, shot and then beheaded a villager from Lalgarh.The man's decapitated body was found on Sunday morning, with its head in its hands, on the state highway near Jhargram, some distance from his village.The man, is believed to be a CPM supporter.Later in the evening, two local CPM leaders were sh...

• Winds of change in Maoist bastion Lalgarh?

  As the country watched the Maoist hostage drama unfold in Bihar, a wind of change blew across a village in West Bengal's Lalgarh which was virtually declared a Maoist takeover on 15 June 2009. The Communist Party of India Marxist(CPM) returned to Dharampur village in Lalgarh.Last year, led by armed Maoists, mobs tore down a CPM office the house of ...

• Left: How can minister Mamata side with Maoists?

  Mamata Banerjee is causing the UPA government much embarrassment and the Opposition is ensuring it doesn't end soon. On Thursday, the Left questioned how a minster could side with Maoists and call a Maoist leader a "martyr" and said the Centre must explain.This after Mamata said on Wednesday that she stood by her remarks when she called Maoist lead...

• Mamata defends Lalgarh remark, doesn't rule out mediating with Maoists

  It seems there is little the UPA government can do to keep a check on Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee.  In a major embarrassment to the government today, Mamata says she stands by her remarks on Maoists at the Lalgarh rally, where she called Maoist leader Azad's encounter a 'murder' and demanded that the government investigate it."Whatever I ...

• Pranab Mukherjee meets Mamata Banerjee

  Senior Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday met Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata where she is recuperating after a car accident she had recently.  Pranab says the visit was just a courtesy call and that he hopes Mamata will recover soon and attend the monsoon session of Parliament.  It is not clear whether Prana...

• No one from govt should back Maoists: Chidambaram

  Mamata Banerjee's controversial rally at Lalgarh again figured in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday with a BJP member asking Home Minister P Chidambaram if the government would take action against a leader who supports the Maoists.Chidambaram was asked if the government would take action against those who appreciate anti-democratic movement in the Naxal...

• Trinamool in denial over Lalgarh rally

  After drawing flak for her Lalgarh rally in which the Maoist front organisation, the People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) took part, Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress is in denial. Speaking to NDTV's Prannoy Roy, senior Trinamool leader and Health Minister Dinesh Trivedi insisted it was not a joint rally with the Maoists."I want t...

• BJP slams Govt in Rajya Sabha over Mamata's Lalgarh rally

  Rajya Sabha was on Tuesday adjourned till 1200 noon following clashes between treasury benches and Opposition BJP which wanted suspension of Question Hour to discuss Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's alleged support to Maoists at her Lalgarh rally.When the House met for the day, Leader of Opposition Arun Jaitley said, "I have given a notic...

• CPM slams Mamata for Lalgarh rally with Maoists' friends

  The CPI(M) charged that the Trinamool Congress has "legitimised" the outlawed Maoists by organising a joint rally at Lalgarh in West Bengal and demanded that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh answer to the country on the "tie-up". (Read: I don't understand the language of guns, says Mamata at Lalgarh rally)"The Prime Minister went on record on the floo...

• Mamata: Way Maoist leader Azad was killed not right

  Slamming the Left at a rally in Lalgarh on Monday, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee said the way Maoist leader Azad was killed was not right and asked for a probe into his death.C Rajakumar alias Azad was killed in an encounter by state police in Andhra Pradesh on July 2.  Following his death, Maoist sympathisers had filed a petition i...

• Mamata rally: CPM, Trinamool face-off

  Lalgarh has once again created a face-off between the CPM and the Trinamool Congress. On Monday, Mamata Banerjee holds a major rally in Lalgarh, which two years ago saw a pitched battle between the state and Maoists, and the Left, under pressure after Mamata's recent electoral gains, has dragged the Centre in, alleging Mamata and the Maoists of joi...

• Fully support Mamata's rally, says Maoist leader Kishenji

  In what has sparked off a fresh political storm in West Bengal, the Maoists have openly backed Trinamool Congress chief and Union Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee's proposed rally on the August 9 in the state's Maoist heartland Lalgarh. Top Maoist leader Kishenji has told PTI that he will fully support the rally. This came soon after the Peoples' ...