Islamist outfit Popular Front of India (PFI), which is accused of having links with terror groups, has joined hands with organisations linked to Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) to target the Government in Jharkhand, reports Swarajya on July 8.According to a report by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (UMHA), Committee for Release of Political Prisoners (CRPP) secretary, Rona Wilson, who was recently arrested, met officials and ministers in Jharkhand along with a woman identified as Vasantha Kumari, asking them to lift the ban imposed on the PFI and Maoist affiliate, Mazdoor Sangathan Samiti (MSS).There is a growing convergence between Maoist affiliates and the PFI following bans imposed by Jharkhand on the MSS, CPI-Maoist front and PFI. Consequently, both aides have echoed each others' causes and in the process, says the report sent by the UMHA to the Jharkhand Government. The UHMA report says that the convergence between the Maoists and PFI is not new and that the two have come together in the past. The UMHA has asked the Government of Jharkhand to monitor the activities of the two groups closely. The state government had banned PFI, formed as a successor to the National Development Front (NDF).