Naxal diktat for foundation day: no work

Naxalite insurgents have issued a diktat to people residing in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh to observe the foundation day of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) on Friday by desisting from taking part in any economic activity for a day.

DIG (Kanker) Pawan Deo said the police have recovered banners and posters from Kanker and Narayanpur districts of the Bastar region, exhorting people to observe the foundation anniversary on September 21.

The diktat has been issued to mark the day when CPI-Maoist came into existence in 2004 following the merger of the Peoples’ War Group (PWG) and Maoist Communist Centre (MCC). The group has a stronghold in mineral-rich Bastar, which is spread across about 40,000 sq km in southern Chhattisgarh, bordering Andhra Pradesh and Orissa.