‘Maoists were banned after recommendation from WB govt’

The Centre banned the CPI (Maoist) on the basis of a recommendation from the West Bengal government,revealed a union minister.

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Kolkata | June 24, 2009 05:08 PM IST

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The Centre banned the CPI (Maoist) on the basis of a recommendation from the West Bengal government,a union minister said on Wednesday.

“The Centre banned the CPI (Maoist) after getting a recommendation from the state government,” Union Minister of State Sriprakash Jaiswal told reporters after meeting Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee in Kolkata.

“The state must have sent a recommendation,written or verbal,to the Centre to ban the CPI (Maoist),” he said,adding “without the state government’s recommendation,the Centre does not ban an extremist organisation”.

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