A Congress MLA, said that the government accepted the Maoists' demands on Wednesday, 'but it seems the Maoists have ignored it. The government should explain on the delay in BDO's release'.
With the Maoists still keeping Block Development Officer (BDO) Prashant Kumar Layek in their custody a week after abducting him from Dalbhumgarh, the opposition today asked Jharkhand chief minister Shibu Soren to explain the reason behind the delay.
"We have been insisting for an all-party meeting on the Maoist problem for long. But Soren neither called any meeting nor he went to Kolkata for the chief ministers' conference chaired by Union home minister P Chidambaram on Naxalism," the leader of opposition, Rajendra Singh, said.
Demanding the immediate release of the BDO, Singh, a Congress MLA, said the government accepted the Maoists' demands on Wednesday, "but it seems the Maoists have ignored it. The government should explain on the delay in BDO's release".
The Maoists, who kidnapped Layek on Saturday and set some conditions to set him free, have not yet said anything after extending deadlines twice over the week.
Worried over the Maoists continuing to keep the BDO in its custody for the seventh day today, the CPI(M)'s central committee member JS Majumdar said though the government's acceptance of a condition was a wrong step as it gave a wrong signal, the initiation could be backed to some extent as human life is every important.
The CPI-ML (Liberation)'s state unit secretary, Janaradhan Prasad, slammed the government for not holding "meaningful" dialogue with the Maoists to find a lasting solution to the problem.
"What Soren has accepted is nothing new. There are several persons in the state who should be set free from various jails. They are victim of police atrocities," Prasad alleged.
Former deputy chief minister Stephen Marandi asked what message the Soren government intended to give by accepting the demands of the Maoists. "Human life is precious, but accepting their conditions will only embolden them, which might prove detrimental in the future," Marandi added.
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