At least 30 Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) posters and leaflets, along with large banners with a call to people to celebrate ‘People’s Liberation Guerilla Army (PLGA) Week’, scheduled from December 2 to 8, were found at several places in Purulia District of West Bengal on November 30, reports The Telegraph. This is the first time since 2011 that such a large number of Maoist posters and banners have appeared in the Jungle Mahal. The printed and handwritten posters and banners were spotted pasted or hung at Madhupur in Bandwan block and Ramsi in Barabazar block which were later seized by Police team. The Maoist posters have surfaced in large numbers close on the heels of the Union Home Ministry (UHM) withdrawing two battalions of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) from Jungle Mahal Districts of Jhargram, Purulia, Bankura and West Midnapore despite objections from residents and political parties in view of next year’s Assembly polls. In its printed leaflets, the Maoists asked people to celebrate the ‘PLGA Week’. The leaflets also advise Maoist sympathisers how to observe the PLGA’s anniversary and detail the outfit’s purported attacks in the past one year. The handwritten posters have asked the people to rise in protest against the Narendra Modi Government’s new farm laws and its policy to hand over land to corporate entities. one of the posters in Bengali read, “Foil the conspiracy of the Centre to hand over the agriculture system to big capital and corporates in the disguise of the farm bill.”