Click to play videoKolkata: Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) cadres in Jangalmahal area of West Bengal are living in the fear of Naxals.
Just a few days back two CPI-M workers were killed and their bodies dumped on the roadside.
Such killings have become a common sight in Jangalmahal region where Maoists are hitting back at Marxists for the recent security crackdown against them.
More than 30 party supporters have been murdered and 20 gone missing over the past three months.
"To my mind the paramilitary operations are a failure. And not only a failure, it has enhanced the people's hate and despise for the administration more than before. The ripples of this anger will be felt in the days ahead," Maoist leader Kishenji had said a few days ago.
But CPI-M state leaders say it is not just the Maoists who are behind the killings. They also blame Opposition Trinamool Congress workers.
"Here it's the political killing outsourcing. Where you can kill... in East Midnapore, you directly do it, take the law in your own hands. The Trinamool Congress... where you can't do it, in West Midnapore where you are not so strong you outsource the political killings," claimed CPI-M leader Mohammad Salim.
The accumulation of unaccounted wealth in hands of CPI-M leaders in places like Lalgarh prompted the party to draft a rectification module in its latest Politburo meeting.
While the CPI-M plans to combat its isolation from the masses by rectifying comrades, it has so far been helpless in holding together its highly demoralised workforce, who still survive in the killing fields of Jangalmahal.
On the other hand Maoist-backed Lalgarh tribals complain of gross human rights violations by the security forces. With the Bengal government now looking for more central forces in the region, peace seems a long way off in the tribal heartland of Bengal.
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