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Demonetisation broke Maoists’ backbone, exposed ‘urban Naxals’, says BJP think tank’s study

Demonetisation broke Maoists’ backbone, exposed ‘urban Naxals’, says BJP think tank’s study

Scroll.in / By Scroll Staff

The Narendra Modi government’s decision to demonetise Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes in November 2016 “broke the backbone of left-wing extremists”, said a report published by the Bharatiya Janata Party’s think tank, the Public Policy Research Centre. The study titled “Demonetisation: Impact on Combating Naxalism” was released on Wednesday. November 8 marks the second anniversary of the note ban exercise.
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McCarthyism in Modi’s India

McCarthyism in Modi’s India

JACOBIN / By Anand Teltumbde

Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party are carrying out an audacious campaign to arrest left activists and silence dissent in India. The country is on a path toward fascism.
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Discipline, Dissent and ‘Urban Naxals’

Discipline, Dissent and ‘Urban Naxals’

VIKALP / By Satyaki Roy

One of the major features of the current regime is that it insinuates a concerted process of criminalization, assassination and intimidation as an evolving architecture of punishment not being backed by any judicial probe.
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Bhima Koregaon case: A curiously prescient report puts focus on a Mumbai security think tank

Bhima Koregaon case: A curiously prescient report puts focus on a Mumbai security think tank

Scroll.in / by Mridula Chari

One of the two secretaries general of Forum for Integrated National Security is Seshadri Chari, a senior member of the RSS and the BJP.
A report released by a security think-tank in March into caste violence in Bhima Koregaon near Pune on January 1 had foreshadowed the turn taken by the police investigation into the events. The report pinned the blame for the violence on a Maoist conspiracy – a conclusion that bears striking resemblance to the claims the Pune police has subsequently made in court.
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Video: „I Will Continue My Work Regardless of What Mr. Goswami Says“

Video: „I Will Continue My Work Regardless of What Mr. Goswami Says“

en | 19 min | 2018

PUCL National Secretary and visiting professor at NLU, Sudha Bharadwaj, talks to Newsclick about the recent allegations made against her of being an urban Naxal by Republic TV. She also discusses the long drawn conflict in Chhattisgarh and how illegal land acquisitions and extrajudicial killings are adding fuel to the fire in the state.
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