Bihar Governor Buta Singh has been asked to visit Madhuban, which was attacked by a band of 300 Maoists from Nepal last Thursday, and send a report to the Union Home Ministry.The Home Ministry has also asked the SSB which guards the Indo-Nepal border to coordinate between the Central Reserve Police Force and Bihar Police to ensure there is no repeat of Thursday’s incident. SSB Director-General Himanshu Kumar has been asked to coordinate deployment and operations in Bihar.The Ministry initially denied that Maoists from Nepal were involved in the attack, but security forces have confirmed the rebels’ role. Internal security agencies are not ruling out a joint operation by Indian and Nepalese Maoists. This was the first attack carried out by Nepalese Maoists on Indian soil.How the Home Ministry responds will depend on Singh’s report; however, the attack has its claims to be hollow. The Ministry has all along said Indian and Nepalese Maoists are incapable of carrying out coordinated attacks on Indian soil.It has also said that Nepal’s Maoists usually cross the border to be ‘‘treated’’. Reports from Bihar suggest that Maoists have been trying to build a base around Madhuban.Naxals shoot Cong man, set buses on fireHyderabad: A Congress activist was shot dead while three state buses were torched in separate incidents in Mahaboobnagar district of Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday. Two armed Maoists went to the house of M. Raju, a Congress worker, at Timmaipalli village and forcibly took him away. In Farahabad, Naxalites set fire to three buses in protest against a recent encounter near Sangaipalli where a Naxalite was killed. —PTI
