Malloula Koteswar Rao News

Over the past month, there are reports of Maoists sneaking in West Bengal, making campaigns in areas of Jhargram and Purulia districts and going back to Jharkhand. The latest incident took place on August 27, 2020, at Pochapani village of Jhargram district of West Bengal - a few kilometres away from Jharkhand border - the area of operation of last Maoist squad of Bengal based out of Jharkhand led by Ashim Mondal alias Akash. Earlier on August 16, a day after Independence day, as many as 10-12 handwritten Maoist posters urging villagers to observe Independence Day as ‘Kala Divas’ surfaced at several villages of the same Jhargram district.