Two Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres were shot dead after in an encounter with the Security Force (SF) personnel of the Special Operation Group (SOG), Hawk Force, in the forests area of Motinala in the Supkhar area in Balaghat District of Madhya Pradesh on November 30, reports The Free Press Journal. Another Maoist was also shot at and injured but she was able to run away. The Maoists, who were shot dead, were identified as Ganesh Marawi (27) and Rajesh aka Banjam (19), both of them were ‘commanders’ of Bhoramdev Area Committee (Platoon) PL 2. An AK 47 rifle and a Self-Loading Rifle (SLR) were seized from their possession. According to official sources, Banjam was a resident of Sukma in Bastar under Pal Gundam Police Station, and a reward of INR 300,000 on his head was declared in Madhya Pradesh, INR 1.2 million in Maharashtra, and INR 500,000 in Chhattisgarh. The other Maoist, Ganesh, a resident of Sakin in the Narguda area of Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra, was the ‘commander’ of zone coordination committee, and carried a reward of INR 300,000 on his head in Madhya Pradesh, INR 400,000 in Maharashtra and INR 500,000 in Chhattisgarh. As the Maoists were planning to celebrate ‘People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) week’ from December 2 to 8, their activities have intensified in the area. The gunfight continued throughout the night and the bodies of two Maoists were found in the morning. On getting information about it, a team of Hawk Force began to rifle through the forests of the Supkhar area at night. The Police were searching for the injured Maoist, said Farid Shapoo, Director General of Police (DGP), anti-Naxal [Left Wing Extremism, LWE] campaign.
The 22nd anniversary of ‘People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) week’, an armed wing organization of Naxalites [Left Wing Extremists, LWEs], is starting from December 2 till December 8, reports abplive.com on December 1. During this, the organization has planned a large-scale recruitment, which was exposed after the encounter with the Hawk Force on the border of Mandla-Balaghat District on November 30. It has been learned from the documents recovered from them that the Naxal organization is going to recruit on a large scale. He has appealed to the young men and women to join the organization. According to the Police, a lot of Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) documents have been found in the encounter with Naxalites in Supkhar Forest area of Balaghat. The Police is studying these documents. It is written in the leaflets found in them, 'Get recruited in large numbers in PLGA. Modi's counter-revolutionary solution 2017-2022: Down with the political attack, intensify the people's war by joining PGLA to demolish the system full of exploitation and oppression.' Naxalites have also pasted pamphlets on trees in the forest to emotionally mislead the youth and link them with PLGA, citing unemployment. In these leaflets, instead of any positive solution for employment, young men and women have been instigated to join PLGA. The PLGA has also questioned the plan to recruit for a short time in the army. By raising questions on this plan, the Naxalites have tried to instigate the youth. In this encounter, rifles ranging from AK-47 to 315-bore have been recovered from the Naxalites.