Maoists considered India's biggest internal security threat
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The government considers the Maoist Communist Party of India the biggest threat to the country's internal security and it's now officially banned the Maoists in what some are calling a 'technicality' to close a loophole. The Maoists avoided a ban five years ago when individual factions regrouped as as The Communist Party of India (Maoist), who are different from other - more mainstream - Communist parties which work within the electoral system. But the ban comes as the Maoists have been staging a strike to protest against alleged atrocities by police in areas that the Maoists control in West Bengal.
Presenter: Zulfikar Abbany
Speaker: B. Raman, terrorism expert and director, Institute for Topical Studies, India
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