Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said Monday that he was aggrieved by the attack on a civilian bus in Chhattisgarh, which left more than 30 people died.
In an exclusive conference to NDTV, Chidambaram said: "Naxals not discriminate just kill. Reckless homicide makes me hurt."
Meanwhile, in their continuing four-day meeting in New Delhi, the army also discusses the growing threat of Maoist extremism. It is also expected to propose Naxal-affected states to have a Brigadier General as an consultant.
On Monday, the Interior Ministry condemned the attack. language exclusively to NDTV, said Home Minister P Chidambaram, "Naxals not discriminate, just kill." He said there is a need to review tactical operations next to the Maoists.
Police said the bus was on its way from Dantewada to Sukma, was crowded with about 60 passengers on board. Initial reports said 20 safekeeping personnel, including special police officers (SPOs) were on the bus hit a landmine between Gadir and Chingawaram-an isolated stretch passes from side to side dense forest to the south Basten.
The incident took place 35 kilometers from Sukma Block headquarters. The wounded, including two SPOs and six others have been absorbed by the hospital in Gadir and Sukma.
The Maoist attack on the private bus is the second major attack after the 6:04 incident in which the Maoists massacre 76 security personnel, including 75 from the CRPF near Chintalnar. On 8 May the rebels triggered a powerful explosion in Bijapur district, killing eight people CRPF.
In New Delhi, Union Home Ministry destined the attack the bus and said most of those killed were civilians. A spokesman mha was no CRPF personnel in the bus.
The Ministry says that the toll may be "heavy" the motor vehicle had the capacity to carry 65-70 passengers. "We have very incomplete information about the incident. We know that a bus was blown up, and the accident can be quite heavy," said special secretary (internal security), home ministry UK Bansal.
Asked whether most of the passengers on the bus were civilians, he said, "I will believe it." Bansal said the SPOs, who fell victim of Naxal assault would contribute in the recruitment of regular police force. "Passengers on the bus were partly civil and partly SPOs that was on to a form of recruit, "he said.
In Raipur, said police sources, the Maoists are irritating to mount pressure on security forces, especially after 06.04 butchery of an effort to demoralize the paramilitaries and stable anti-Naxalite operations.
Moreover, insurgents also begun kidnapping and murdering local civilians, and charged them of being police informers, to create fear and stop the locals from supplementary the security armed forces.
When the police mounted force on the Naxals in Basta rebels moved their focus to Manpur-Mohall the region near the border with Maharashtra in Rajnandgaon district, where they killed six civilians, including a Gram Panchayat president, and threw their bodies on the main road.Police suspected Maoists threw the bodies on their way to lure securitymen to the area and try and fool them.
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