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It also mentions that the developmental work done by the Maoists including "mobilizing community labour for farm ponds, rainwater harvesting, and land conservation works in the Dandakaranya region, which villagers testified had improved their crops and improved their food security situation."
The film was announced in June 2023, along with the title of the film, it's based on the Naxalite–Maoist insurgency in the Bastar district of Chhattisgarh and the April 2010 Maoist attack in Dantewada. [7] Bastar was theatrically released on 15 March 2024. [8] The film received negative reviews from critics and was a major box office bomb. [9]
The unit is tasked with curbing Naxalist activities in Chhattisgarh state. [2] The battalion is named "Bastariya" because the force is composed of locals — both male and female — from Dantewada , Bijapur , Sukma , and Narayanpur — some of the most Maoist -affected districts in Bastar Division , Chhattisgarh.
He represented the Dantewada constituency. The congress again lost the 2008 assembly elections when BJP swept 10 out of the 11 seats in Bastar. [9] He had secured 158,520 votes (35.19%). In the region, he was known as "Bastar Tiger"-for making a tough stand against the regional Maoist insurgency. [7] [10] [11]
In the document, the Maoists denounce globalisation as a war on the people by market fundamentalists and the caste system as a form of social oppression. [26] The CPI (Maoist) claim that they are conducting a "people's war", a strategic approach developed by Mao Zedong during the guerrilla warfare phase of the Chinese Communist Party.
On 14 September 2013, 14 Maoist cadres were shot by the Special Operation Group (SOG) [35] at the Salaikota reserve forest (35 km from Malkangiri) in South Odisha. [36] These Maoists were believed to be responsible for the attack on the Congress leadership in Chhattisgarh, [37] and had entered Malkangiri district from Chhattishgarh. [35]
Pandita is the author of three best-selling and critically-acclaimed books: "Our Moon has Blood Clots: A memoir of a lost home in Kashmir" (Penguin Random House, 2013); "Hello, Bastar: The untold story of India's Maoist movement" (Westland, 2011), and "The Lover Boy of Bahawalpur: How the Pulwama case was cracked (Juggernaut, 2021).
Chandrahas Choudhury of the Washington Post describes the book as a "riveting account of the face-off in the forests of central India between the Indian state and the Maoists or Naxalites, a shadowy, revolutionary guerrilla force with tens of thousands of cadres." [2] Choudhury describes Roy as "one of India's most distinctive voices". [2]