ANO sensitizing Mumbai cops on Naxal activities

NAGPUR: The state's Anti-Naxal Operation cell, based in Nagpur, has undertaken an initiative to create an awareness among the personnel of different security units on Naxal activities. After briefing a batch of newly recruited personnel from the state intelligence department, the ANO is now imparting specialized training to some officials from Mumbai and city at its Civil Lines office.
The exercise, conceptualized by the specialized unit for countering the Naxal movement, also aims at sharing of collected inputs on rebels' activities in the state, its future planning and objectives among the officials of the other state police units. Through this enterprise, the ANO intends to sensitize the personnel regarding the Naxal issue.
After taking over the reigns of ANO, deputy inspector general of police (DIG) Ravindra Kadam, who was earlier posted at the state Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS), has prepared training modules on various aspects of Naxalism and their activities.
The ANO training aims to expose everyone to the rebels' ideological beliefs, visions for the masses along with their different tactics of guerrilla warfare and activities of their front organization in the urban centres like creating a safe den for meeting and sheltering, prepare logistics base to support their jungle -based activities and carry on anti-establishment propaganda.
Sources in the ANO said Kadam decided to invite officials from Mumbai to the workshop after the recent arrests of Naxal cadres from different parts of the Vidarbha, especially Gondia. It has provided several crucial inputs regarding the Naxal plan for metro cities of Maharashtra.
The recent arrest of Dalit writer and activist Sudhir Dhawale, a resident of Mumbai, seemed to have led to the assimilation of several significant inputs regarding the plan of antigovernment activities by arousing the sentiments of the backward class of people.
Intelligence gathered has brought to light before the ANO that urban centres are fast being targeted by the Naxals through their front organizations. The Naxal sympathizers have started spreading their tentacles into different organizations in the city, targeting the students, labour class and backward section.
Following the latest inputs, it has been learnt that ANO has started to approach police units from districts or regions where the Naxals have planned to grow their roots through their cadres. ANO also aims to share the information obtained so far from the seizure of the literatures and books written on the ideologies of Naxal and other pro-armed revolution.