Govt will not encourage anyone to support Maoists: HM

Home Minister P Chidambaram said no one should support the CPI(Maoists).

A day after BJP and the Left sought to corner the UPA over Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Lalgarh rally,allegedly backed by Maoists,Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Wednesday Government will not encourage anyone to support the Left extremists.

“No one should support the CPI(Maoists) and the Government certainly will not encourage anyone to support the CPI(Maoists),” he said in the Rajya Sabha during Question Hour.

Chidambaram was replying to a supplementary by BJP member Ramdas Agarwal.

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Agarwal had asked the Home Minister whether the government would take action against anyone publicly appreciating Maoists and even eulogising them.

He wondered just because the person supporting the Maoists happens to be a minister at the Centre,the person would be saved.

Intervening,CPI(M) member Prasanta Chatterjee demanded a CBI inquiry in the Lalgarh issue.

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