An instance of a foreigner extending support to the Communist
Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist)
and its front organisations has come
to notice, the Government said on
May 16, reports Zee News. Minister
of State for Home Affairs Jitendra
Singh told the Rajya Sabha
(upper house of the Parliament) that
one Jan Myrdal, a pro-Maoist Swedish
author, had visited India
in January 2012 and attended pro-CPI-Maoist
conventions in Kolkata, Hyderabad, Ludhiana and
Delhi.
Singh said Myrdal supported CPI-Maoist ideology of armed struggle
against the state and spoke at length
in a seminar in Delhi on the topic Let's stand
against the Indian state's war on
people, organised by Forum
Against War on People, a front
organisation of CPI-Maoist. "Mr
Jan Myrdal during his stay in India
advised CPI (Maoist) to garner support from the middle-class in
India by focusing on propaganda against
security forces and highlighting human
rights issues," the Minister
added.
However, there is no direct evidence to suggest that foreigners
were engaged in an organised way to
help CPI-Maoist through NGOs in India, he said.
The minister said CPI-Maoist had a number of front organisations
active in many States and it resorted
to over ground activities to mobilise
support. "It has also been noticed
that when CPI (Maoist) activists are arrested in different parts
of India,
a concerted campaign is launched by
sending hundreds of identical email,
many of them originating from foreign
countries. Some of these front organisations
clandestinely receiving foreign funds
cannot be ruled out," he further
said.
Singh said CPI-Maoist has developed close fraternal ties with
many insurgent groups in the Northeast
especially Revolutionary People’s
Front/ People’s Liberation Army (RPF/PLA)
of Manipur and the outfit has trans-border
linkages with certain groups. "The
government is closely monitoring the
situation. Such issues are regularly
taken up with the countries concerned
at the diplomatic level," he
said. | 
