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After four BJP leaders or functionaries were murdered by banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) this year in Chhattisgarh’s Maoist-affected Bastar region, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has given ‘X’ category security cover to 24 BJP leaders in the area till December 31.
The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) will provide security to these BJP leaders in view of Assembly elections scheduled in two phases in November-December.
Some of these leaders had told The Indian Express that due to the four murders, unreported threats, and kidnapping of the BJP local leaders, party works and campaigning had stopped entirely in remote areas, some even resigning or keeping away from the party. The BJP leaders had also openly blamed the ruling Congress for the murders. At the same time, it hit back, asking what justice had been done in the 2013 Jheeram ghati (valley) attack in Sukma, where the entire Congress leadership, while campaigning for elections, was wiped off by Maoists.
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In February this year, within a week, the CPI (Maoists) murdered three BJP leaders. On February 5, Neelkanth Kakem, 48, the BJP’s divisional head of Awapalli in Bijapur district, was stabbed to death by three suspected Maoists. On February 10, Sagar Sahu, 47, deputy chief of BJP’s Narayanpur district, was shot at his home by suspected Maoists.
On February 11, Hitameta village resident Ramdhar Alami, 43, of the Hitameta village, was waylaid and killed while returning from a village inside Abujhmad.
The fourth murder was in June of a former BJP sarpanch in the Bijapur district. The body of Kaka Arjun, 52, a resident of Ilmidi Kasaram Para village, was found with wounds inflicted by a sharp weapon and a note left by the Maoists. It mentioned that Arjun had worked for the BJP since 2014 and was against the banned CPI (Maoist). It also threatened anyone who works against the banned organisation of the same fate.
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