Govt. has taken number of steps to curb LWE activities: R.P.N. Singh

Minister of State for Home R.P.N. Singh on Tuesday said the Central Government has taken a number of steps to curb activities of Left Wing Extremism (LWE) in different states of the country.

Singh, who was replying to the main question, told the members of the Lok Sabha that the government has banned 36 organizations involved in terror activities.

The Union Cabinet had earlier in June approved a proposal to install mobile towers at 2,199 locations in nine states that is Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, which are affected by Left Wing Extremism (LWE), identified by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).

The Left-Wing Extremists adapt their political activities to revolutionary Marxist or anarchist ideas, and they endeavour to replace the existing political and social order with a socialist or communist system or an anarchist society "free of all authority".

To this end, they participate in social protests and attempt to instrumentalise them for their purposes. Their forms of action range from open agitation to clandestine, sometimes serious acts of violence, with isolated autonomous groups also accepting that individuals may be injured.