In the midnight of 14th Aug 1947, peroration of Nehru’s famous speech was “……At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom”, and this was certainly right. Almost a thousand years long servitude was over for this country, and everyone; irrespective of it social strata; was hopeful for a better space to live and breathe. Our architects of free India did their best buy formulating a world’s largest constitution, guidelines to steer this tottering country. Bills were drafted, Policies were formed, and schemes were implemented. But it was not easy to pander to everyone’s expectations, the population which has been oppressed for more than eight centuries. Trivial imbalance in the policies at the beginning of our new journey multiplied over years and resulted in an unbalancing in the society which was never conceived by the founders of “Free India”. It’s very true that no country ever had its all resources precisely equally distributed among its citizens. Some differences are always there and also acceptable, but when these differences are exuberant then it’s not good for anyone. And this is what exactly gave birth to the Indian current scourge; Naxalism.
Poor people, who are not able to get anything from this system and are forced to make way for thriving industries and development planning, rebel against this system and refuse to follow rules and regulation which they think are meant to crush them. Naxalism has become threat to this well established system because they are teeming quickly. Naxalites find lots of supporters among the poor rural population, who are deprived of the basic needs like potable water, food, home, electricity etc. These Naxalites are posing a serious threat to the very basic of democratic society in some areas of the country. They have well established self-governance system, in which different people are allotted their individual roles. They have their own judiciary, their own militia and their own food distribution system. And then people are happy in this system, they are pandering to this system willingly. Gigantic question is why? Why people are opting for this system? Why they rebel against a sovereign state like India, and become an active member of a illegal and outlawed system like Naxalism?
