CPI-M asks Centre to rush para-military forces to West Bengal

“Nine CPI(M) members have been abducted. The bodies of three of them have been found but the others have not been traced,” it said adding that the Maoists were entering West Bengal through the Jharkhand border.

The party demanded that the Centre should “immediately rush the required number of para-military forces to the area as requested by the State Government”.

It claimed that its members and supporters are being targeted and hounded out of the area,and party offices and houses of CPI(M) workers are being destroyed.

“The Maoists are using poor tribals as human shield to further their goals. Shockingly,these depredations have the indirect and direct support of important sections of opposition political parties in West Bengal,” it alleged.

The party also asked its units to protest against the killings of CPI(M) cadre and supporters in Bengal.