[sagar]

"India is/has been fighting Maoists using the following means:
1. Land/labour reforms
2. Police action and better law enforcement machinery
3. Economic development
4. better governance (self governance) "

Yeah, and what a great job India is doing to stop Maoism. /sarcasm

That feel good list isn't working at all. In fact, Maoists(within India and in Nepal) are getting stronger. Thanks to the Indian Marxists who are in power, and partly to the lax attitude of the shielded journalists from Indian Marxpress.

[Gengis Khan]

"Yeah, and what a great job India is doing to stop Maoism."

No we haven't done a great job but still by and large we were successful in containing the Maoists. I am not saying we have eliminated them. Rather far from it the Maoists threat has been growing in some states. Especially those states that haven't fully implemented or neglected the steps I mentioned. But by and large we were successful is the reason why were aren't overrun by the Maoists. I cannot say the same about Nepal.

Right or wrong we propose to go ahead with those set of steps (I mentioned) to tackle the Maoists threat. A true democracy has to take along all sections of the society and has to accommodate all kinds of view points even those that you don't agree with be it Marxism, Communism, Maoism or Socialism.

The Marxism-Communism bogeyman is the favorite alibi for dictators searching for an excuse to abolish democracy and grab absolute power. The same alibi used by Islamic dictators on the fore front of the war against Communism (like our neighbor Pakistan). That kind of alibi has less takers in today's world.