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NEW DELHI, OCT 31: India’s most powerful Maoist group has warned its members to stay away from free sex and described love at first sight as “unscientific”, a newspaper reported on Saturday.
The outlawed People’s War Group (PWG) also threatened “disciplinary action” if its guerrillas continue to have illicit sex, it was reported. “It is irresponsible and anarchic for any comrade to have illicit relations,” an internal PWG document was quoted as saying, warning erring members with expulsion.
The PWG, which wields a strong influence in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, said “illicit relationships” had become a serious problem in the group which has some 1,000 armed cadres. It said many members indulged in sex at party hideouts.
“Love at first sight,” it added, “was unscientific because it was based on emotion, and the (party) leadership has to endeavour to stop or delay marriages caused by such emotions.”
The PWG said, “Marriages between two revolutionaries should not be an individualor personal matter but a political relationship.”
