Bhadradri Kothagudem District, July 4, 2025: CPI (Maoist) Central Committee spokesperson, Comrade Abhay, denounced Union Home Minister (UHM) Amit Shah’s recent statement in Telangana state that the central government would not go in for peace talks with the Maoist party while its cadres continued carrying firearms.
In a statement released to the media, Comrade Abhay said the Chhattisgarh BJP unit, in its last election manifesto, promised to hold peace talks with the Maoist party, and that soon after coming to power, Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai made an announcement in that direction.
Contrary to the party’s stand, UHM Shah dismissed the possibility of holding peace talks with the Maoists, who were always ready for peace talks. But the central government was not. After the Peace Talks Committee in Telangana state called for talks in March, the Maoists urged the central government to create an amicable situation and announced a voluntary ceasefire for a month, Comrade Abhay said.
Even after the Maoists announced the ceasefire, security personnel continued their offensive against the Naxalites and killed over 80 Maoists, including the CPI (Maoist) Central Committee General Secretary Namballa Kesava Rao alias Basavaraj. Several innocent Adivasis were also killed.
Since the time of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the central government held peace talks with militants carrying firearms in the eastern States, and the same was being continued by the Modi government. It indicates the falsity of the Union Home Minister’s stand on peace talks with Maoists.
On the day Basavaraj was killed, the government permitted the felling of 1.20 lakh trees in Gadchiroli district, which brings out the true agenda behind the denial to hold peace talks with Maoists. The government, by eliminating the Maoists, wants to chase Adivasis from their forest dwellings, Comrade Abhay explained.
He welcomed TPCC president Mahesh Kumar Goud’s condemnation of UHM Shah’s statement and his suggestion to hold peace talks. The Congress government in Telangana state should announce a ceasefire first, without which it lacks the moral grounds to insist the central or the Chhattisgarh state governments to hold talks with the Maoists, Comrade Abhay added.
Source : https://telanganatoday.com/maoist-leader-abhay-slams-amit-shah-for-rejecting-peace-talks-wants-telangana-government-to-announce-ceasefire