Jaya Menon, 28 April 2012
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Bibhu Prasad Routray, who served as deputy director in the National Security Council Secretariat, said the Maoists abductions have underlined critical problems in the country's counter-Maoist approach in an article. The lack of consensus on a national approach in tackling Maoists has allowed individual states to pursue divergent and sometimes incongruous approaches with dangerous repercussions for the states, he said. The analyst, now based in Singapore, has been highly critical of the Odisha government's move to release Maoist prisoners. "It took precisely 20 days for Sabyasachi Panda, secretary of the Odisha state organising committee of the Communist Party of India-Maoist and 12 days for another set of CPI-Maoist abductors belonging to the Srikakulam-Koraput divisional committee of the Andhra-Odisha border special zonal committee to bring the Odisha government to its knees. On April 4, chief minister Naveen Patnaik announced his decision to 'facilitate the release of 27 persons' in the state assembly. " he wrote in another column.
Speaking over phone from Singapore, Routray said, "Firstly, there is no policy or framework as to how a negotiator or mediator should function in a hostage situation. There is a group of negotiators for high profile incidents like aircraft hijackings. As for the states facing Maoist problems, they are poorly equipped to handle a hostage crisis. " The Centre and the states have failed to sync, he pointed out, conveying a strong view that it was time the state government stopped succumbing to pressures and demands of naxals. "The problem is that the states follow divergent approaches and the Ministry of Home Affairs has done little to evolve a national consensus on a counter-Maoist policy", said Routray.
For the full article, Read: http://www.timescrest.com/society/negotiating-life-and-death-7783
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