The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) issued an appeal to intensify the ongoing stir against the central government’s ‘Agnipath’ recruitment scheme, reports Hindustan Times on June 20. The CPI-Maoist put up posters and banners in different areas of the tribal district of Gadchiroli and released an online appeal to everyone, especially the oppressed classes, to condemn and intensify the agitation against the Narendra Modi-led central Government over the defence recruitment scheme. Gadchiroli Superintendent of Police (SP), Ankit Goyal confirmed reports of the CPI-Maoist issuing such appeals to the tribals in the district. In an appeal to tribes, the ‘spokesperson’ of the CPI-Maoist, Abhay, alleged that the government was using forces to suppress the agitations against the newly-launched scheme in several States, particularly in the north of India. Condemning the move, the Maoist ‘spokesman’ dubbed the Agnipath scheme as a “fascist instrument” to suppress the people in the name of employment generation. The organisation claimed the recruitment scheme is a strategy of international funding organisations to reduce government expenditure.