This photograph of a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) parade is from Abujhmad, in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh.
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- Himanshu Kumar
Abujhmad literally refers to a forested and mountainous region that remains unexplored.
For a long time, outsiders were prohibited from entering this area without government permission.
Then the BJP began bringing in predatory capitalists, traders, contractors, self-serving individuals, and its own agents, who started taking control of the region’s jal, jangal, zameen (water, forests, and land).
Under Amit Shah’s supervision, Indian security forces, in the name of eliminating Naxalism, imprisoned and shot dead hundreds of young Adivasi men and women who opposed the plunder of their water, forests, and land. People were burnt alive, and even children and the elderly were not spared. Through a relentless campaign of repression, control over the region was established.
After crushing every form of dissent, Amit Shah has now filled the entire region with RSS goons.
These criminal elements, joining hands with self-serving individuals and acting as agents of big capital, are extracting coal and iron ore from Abujhmad’s water, forests, and land and selling these resources to foreign companies to make profits.
This was the real purpose of Amit Shah’s campaign to eliminate Naxalism
The objective of this campaign was to terrorise the entire Adivasi population, including protesting youth and women, and suppress every dissenting voice through imprisonment and bullets, thereby enabling the RSS and foreign capitalists to take control of the region’s resources.
The Adivasis of Bastar must launch a powerful mass movement to stop these predatory RSS elements and capitalists from plundering their homeland. They must struggle resolutely to uproot them from the region once and for all and drive them out.
