Once again, the same nonsense

In the course of a month we have had an Italian tour operator, an MLA and an IAS officer kidnapped by Maoists. They are the latest among the 1,500 people kidnapped by Maoists over the past four years. As reported in a piece by Mihir Srivastava last week, over 300 of those abducted have been killed. In the same piece, a person who chose to remain anonymous admitted that he had been a mediator in many such situations and said, “Abductions are not merely a law and order problem, it is a reaction to the denial of basic rights that the Constitution of India guarantees.”

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