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Mediators face trouble contacting top Maoists for talks

author BY : Odishatv Bureau
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Kolkata: With the West Bengal government offering to hold talks with Maoists and the ultras responding, the real problem confronting the mediators is setting up contact with their top echelons to carry forward the peace process in the state`s Junglemahal area. "Though we are receiving communication through different channels that the Maoists are ready for […]

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Kolkata: With the West Bengal government offering to hold talks with Maoists and the ultras responding, the real problem confronting the mediators is setting up contact with their top echelons to carry forward the peace process in the state`s Junglemahal area.

"Though we are receiving communication through different channels that the Maoists are ready for talks, we are yet to get in touch with their top leaders," a member of the committee of mediators formed by the state government told PTI on condition of anonymity.

"Some of them -- Somen, Kanchan and Patitpaban Halder -- are behind bars who have very little touch with the outside world and the others are elusive. Unless we can get in touch with them it is impossible to give the initiative of the state government final shape," the member said.

Social activist Swami Agnivesh said the naxals were reluctant to establish communication with the authorities fearing that it might be used as a trap to arrest or annihilate them.

"I tried to communicate with Maoists and they were very positive, but the security and intelligence agencies entered the communication network and killed Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad. This was a big blow in the talks process," Agnivesh told PTI.

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