Maoist are not leader centric. Maoist are getting even stronger day by day. Maoist + ULFA alliance makes a new dimension to the whole insurgency in India.
The Maoists do not represent any democratic movement. In their liberated zones, no political activities other than their own are permissible. They conduct kangaroo courts and summarily execute political opponents labeling them as police informers. Their presence outside their base areas in the forests is negligible. Politically, they are totally absent in the countrywide movement against imperialist globalisation and neoliberal policies, be it working class actions like strikes or peasant struggles on agrarian issues. They have failed to draw any lesson, either political or economic, from the experiences of building socialism in the twentieth century. If anything, they have become even more dogmatic over time, articulating a development vision, which seem eerily similar to Cambodian Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot. To romanticize these nihilist anarchists as a revolutionary force fighting for justice to the adivasis is nothing but utter travesty.
The Maoists cannot be tackled by the Central or State Governments through security operations alone. While violence has to be combated as per law, the issues affecting the lives and livelihoods of the adivasis have to be dealt with on an urgent basis. Under no circumstances should innocent adivasis or their independent organisations be targeted or harassed in the name of anti-Maoist operations. The Maoists need to be thoroughly exposed before the people. Meanwhile, the Maoist sympathizers, who are calling upon the state to initiate unconditional dialogue, would do well to persuade the Indian Maoists to follow the examples of their Nepalese comrades and other CPI (ML) groups and move away from the destructive path of protracted armed struggle, which for them has become an end in itself.
p.s : The so called Maoists had spent over 1100 crores for acquiring sophisticated arms in 2008 itself. The other strategy of theirs to take over the country, seems to be through active participation in illegal business activities. They have gained a lot through illegal mining in collaboration with corrupt 'possibly non-comprehending bourgeois' like Koda. so much for empty stomach, scantly clothed naxalite. hun!!
