New rural paradigm to address the menace of left-wing extremism

From the dawn of India’s Independence, Left-Wing Extremism is considered as one of the important unaddressed internal security threats which is spreading and influencing the Eastern part of tribal India. The successive Indian governments have failed to wipe out Left-Wing Extremism through the traditional counter terrorist means. It is well known fact that the successive government ignoring the genuine needs of the tribal peoples who have been exploited by the unholy alliance of the landlords, corrupt bureaucrats and indifferent local political leaders and the greedy corporate has been the main reason for the present plight of the areas and the continuous violence has created a lot of trust deficit and has consequently alienated the tribal people from the mainstream. In this context, the first part of the paper intends to give a brief account of the causes for growing menace of the Left-Wing Extremism in the tribal area and the government oriented failed offensive means. The second part underlines the possible measures to be initiated at the tribal area by forming a holy alliance of intellectuals, teachers of the local areas who are connected with the local people and the students, media people - who are fairly analyzing and exposing the positive and negative features of the policies and implementations, the local tribal leaders from both gender and the committed NGOs. The main objective is to reach the unreached with the cake of development through right means to win them towards the mainstream gaining their trust. The paper concludes that unless and otherwise the government takes inclusive and developmental initiatives by involving them in all areas of policy initiatives and implementation it is impossible to win the tribal India.