Kishenji suggests 3-month ceasefire by both sides

Top Maoist leader Kishenji tonight suggested a three-month ceasefire by both sides and talks for a peace process.

Two days after the President and the Prime Minister asked the Maoists to abjure violence and come to the discussion table,top Maoist leader Kishenji tonight suggested a three-month ceasefire by both sides and talks for a peace process.

“The President and the Prime Minister,in their Independence Day speeches,have appealed to the Maoists to abjure violence. We are never for violence but the government has instigated us to take up arms,” Kishenji said from an undisclosed destination.

“When our comrade Azad was preparing ground for talks,he was treacherously killed….. So,it is very clear from the activities of the government that they don’t want any peace,” Kishenji said.

The Maoist leader claimed there were “some reports from the PMO that Mamata Banerjee has been asked to work as a mediator. If she agrees,then we have no problem”.

Kishenji suggested some names of mediators,like a group of intellectuals including writer Arundhati Roy,singer and Trinamool Congress MP Kabir Suman,B D Sharma,,Gopal Narlekar and Ramanna.

“But we will not declare ceasefire unilaterally unless there are some positive steps from the government,” Kishenji said.

“If the Prime Minister is keen to restore peace and normalcy in the disturbed areas of the country,then he will have to take an initiative to withdraw joint forces and order a judicial inquiry into the murder of Azad,” he said.

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