‘Intentionally didn’t take action’: Himanta on Chidambaram’s ‘dimagi naxal’ remark

NEW
DELHI:
Assam
chief
mi iste

Hima ta
Biswa
Sa ma
o
Mo day
lau ched
a
sha p
attack
agai st
fo me
U io
home
mi iste

P
Chidamba am
fo
claimi g
to
be
a
“dimagi
axal”
afte
P ime
Mi iste

Na e d a
Modi’s
ema k,
aski g
fo
a
p obe
i to
whethe
he
i te tio ally
did
ot
take
a y
actio
agai st
Naxalism
du i g
his
te u e.I
a
p ess
co fe e ce,
Sa ma
said,
“The e
should
be
a
p obe
agai st
Chidamba am
who
claims
to
be
a
“dimagi
Naxal”.
Was
he
i te tio ally
ot
taki g
a y
actio
agai st
Naxalism
du i g
his
te u e?”This
comes
afte
Chidamba am
took
a
swipe
at
PM
Modi’s
I depe de ce
Day
speech
a d
said,
“I
am
p oud
to
be
a
dimagi
axal!”Ea lie
o
Satu day,
PM
Modi,
du i g
his
I depe de ce
Day
speech,
said
that
while
Naxals
who
took
up
a ms
i
the
ju gle
have
bee
elimi ated,
the e
a e
also
“dimagi
axals”
i
va ious
pa ts
of
the
cou t y
who
eed
to
be
“ide tified
a d
isolated.””Fo
yea s,
people
with
Maoist
thi ki g
we e
the e
i
public
life.
Eve
i
gove me t
committees,
this
thi ki g
had
affected
va ious
i stitutio s
a d
i itiatives.
My
dea
cou t yme ,
we
have
bee
able
to
cu b
a d
f ee
the
cou t y
f om
‘hatha iya
axal’
(a med
axal),”
the
P ime
Mi iste
said.

“Eve
if
these
axals
a e
go e,
the
‘dimagi
axal’
(people
with
axal
thi ki g)
a e
looki g
fo
a
oppo tu ity,
looki g
to
see
ways
of
viole ce,
a d
t yi g
to
d ag
the
cou t y
to
a
w o g
path.

We
eed
to
ide tify
these
dimagi
axal,
isolate
them,
a d
b i g
the
youth
togethe
fo
a
developed
cou t y,”
he
added.The
oppositio
latched
o
to
PM
Modi’s
ema ks
a d
dismissed
them
as
hollow
political
heto ic.Se io
Co g ess
leade
Jai am
Ramesh
said
that
the
te m
ca ies
o
eal
substa ce,
d awi g
a
pa allel
with
p evious
debates
su ou di g
the
ph ase
“u ba
axal”.”Two
o
th ee
yea s
ago,
he
(PM
Modi)
called
his
political
oppo e ts
‘u ba
axals’.
At
that
time,
the
questio
a ose
i
Pa liame t
as
to
what
the
defi itio
of
‘U ba
Naxal’
was.
The
home
mi iste
eplied
that
the e
is
o
such
thi g
as
a
‘u ba
axal’,
o
is
the e
a y
defi itio
fo
it.
Today,
the
P ime
Mi iste
is
usi g
the
te m
‘me tal
axal’
(ideological
Naxal)
fo
his
political
oppo e ts
f om
the
Red
Fo t,”
Jai am
Ramesh
alleged.