Anti-urban Maoism bill opposed by those backing extremism: CM

Time of India

4 days ago

Nagpur: Urban Maoism is a well-planned "strategic change" to bring anarchy and Maharashtra Special Public Security Bill, recently cleared by the state legislature, would be used to tackle this threat, said CM
Devendra Fadnavis
on Sunday.
"Those who are opposing the bill are the ones who seem to be championing left-wing extremism and its mandate," he said.
Asserting that urban Maoism is "slowly poisoning cities", he also hinted that those opposing the bill are the ones lending support to augment the ideology of left-wing extremism.
In response to a query, the CM said after realising that their forest-based cadres were fast depleting, Maoist guerrillas conceptualised the insidious insurgency in cities.
"The Maoist mandate is to infiltrate the democratic setup, organisations, colleges, universities and other govt bodies to replace the constitutional framework with their planned anarchy," he told reporters at the inauguration of the new administrative building of Regional Forensic Science Laboratory in Nagpur.
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Fadnavis said Maoist think tanks have created "urban cadres". "These urban Maoists are faceless, unlike their forest-based cadres with weaponry in their hands.
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They are gradually deteriorating our democratic systems governed by constitutional policies," he said.
Fadnavis said the security setup would track down infiltrators in the urban theatre and act against them. "We have now brought a bill to act against them and there would be strict enforcement of the new law of the land," he said.
Taking a potshot at the opposition, which has claimed that its suggestions as part of a joint select committee of 25 legislators were accepted orally but were missing from the bill, Fadnavis said it was duly passed after debates in both Houses and scrutiny by the committee, adding that its suggestions and 12,000 other inputs were incorporated.
"Anyone who has gone through the bill would seldom oppose it. The bill nowhere deters anyone from voicing opinions, speaking against govt, undertaking any protest or agitation, or even writing against the system," he said.
Fadnavis also said that the bill does not permit direct action against any individual before an organisation is banned. "In other laws, we first arrest and then the individual is brought before the court. According to the bill, the proposal to ban an organisation would first be scrutinised by a judicial system comprising judges and prosecutors. If they approve the ban, only then can members of the organisation can be acted upon," he said, adding that the bill also has a provision for appeal within 30 days before high court.