Anti-poll ‘Maoist’ posters surface across Nuapada district

  • | Thursday | 28th March, 2019

Bhubaneswar: Suspected Maoists have started intimidating voters in Nuapada district by putting up posters in as many as 100 spots, including in the district headquarters town of Nuapada. “Nuapada town and the villages on the periphery also have Red posters. Police suspect the banners, posters and wall writings were the handiwork of Chhattisgarh-based cadres of the outfit.SP (Nuapada) Smith Parmar said besides Nuapada, several places in Sunabeda village had seen such posters. “Whenever there have been combing operations in Chhattisgarh, the rebels have slipped into the Sunabeda forest,” they added. No explosives have been found,” Parmar said.The district police, CRPF and Special Operation Group commandos have carried out flag marches in the town and in places where the posters have been found.Officials said 35-40 per cent of the district had seen Maoist violence.

Bhubaneswar: Suspected Maoists have started intimidating voters in Nuapada district by putting up posters in as many as 100 spots, including in the district headquarters town of Nuapada. The assembly seat will go to the polls in the first phase on April 11.In the posters, which surfaced on Tuesday and Wednesday, the rebels have tried to dissuade voters from turning up for the elections. “Lok Sabha aur Vidhan Sabha chunav ka bahiskar karo (boycott the Lok Sabha and assembly polls in Odisha),” said a poster attributed to the proscribed CPI ( Maoist ).The rebels have also tried to terrorise voters by planting live wires used in detonators. Some posters say that bombs have been planted. This, police said, was aimed at creating an atmosphere of fear in the district. Police suspect the banners, posters and wall writings were the handiwork of Chhattisgarh-based cadres of the outfit.SP (Nuapada) Smith Parmar said besides Nuapada, several places in Sunabeda village had seen such posters. “Nuapada town and the villages on the periphery also have Red posters. On getting information, we sent forces to clear them. We also took precaution to recover the wires planted by the rebels in different places, but they turned out to be just wires. No explosives have been found,” Parmar said.The district police, CRPF and Special Operation Group commandos have carried out flag marches in the town and in places where the posters have been found.Officials said 35-40 per cent of the district had seen Maoist violence. Of late, though, there has not been any report of violent incidents. The Sunabeda sanctuary in the district, which has turned into a Maoist hideout, has also not seen any untoward incident lately.Officials said the Maoists in Nuapada mostly operate from the Sunabeda sanctuary, taking advantage of the forest’s contiguity with Chhattisgarh. “Whenever there have been combing operations in Chhattisgarh, the rebels have slipped into the Sunabeda forest,” they added.

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