The recent startling revelation by Nathuni Mistri, a hardcore activist and regional commander of Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) before the police that the brutal murder of a sincere and honest IFS (Indian Foreign Service)officer, Sanjay Singh was the handiwork of none other than the MCC area commander of Kaimur, Nirala Yadav puts a question mark on the ideology and the practice of Maosists. He executed his plan with a dasta of 15 hard core activists of this dreaded ultra outfit. The killing of daring officer was planned by local forest mafias owning a number of stone crushers and timber business.

Initially, after this gruesome incident, some media reports had indicated involvement of MCC. But the organisation reacted immediately by making press statement that it was in no way involved in this incident. The cadre had all praise for good works undertaken by that officer. But later on, CBI investigation is saying a different story. Who was their class enemy ? Sanjay Singh or forest mafias minting crores of rupees by exploiting the degrading forests.

This is not the only story of the deviation and degeneration of this Maoist organisation. It is now a well-known fact that for any development work in at least 18 districts of Bihar and Jharkhand, the contractor has to pay 30 percent of the allotted money as commission to local area commander. A senior police officer posted in Palamu district of Jharkhand estimated that an amount of at least 30 crore rupees is collected from one district alone. Their collection is far more than commercial taxes collected by government machinery. The collection ranges from forest contractors, businessmen, civil contractors, villagers and government officials including police in some cases. For every illegal work like deshi wine brewing, instead of police being paid, now hafta is paid to local activists.

Recently, dumpers of a construction work laying second railway track on Patna- Gaya section were blown off by another ultra leftist organisation (CPI ML - Peoples War). I utterly fail to understand as to in what way the construction of road, school & canal can create any hindrance in the way of bringing social change through revolution.

For the last couple of years, these organisations gave a call for election boycott and posted notice on public places giving a threat of punishment which might include chopping of nose and ears. But in every election, the impact was hardly felt even in their strong hold . In many cases, the cadre managed booths for their own candidate on the caste line preventing others to vote. What prevented these organisations to act against all established mafia looting public money? Had the cadre punished a few of them, the organisation would have earned a lot of respect among the common people.

The organisation earned a lot of respect of poor villagers by providing them instant justice through jan adalat(kangaroo court) and successfully organising their struggle for wage enhancement and control over common property resources. Now it is fast waning out. The annihilation of class enemy is a lost dream and the revolutionary turned himself into a class of his own.

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