Hyderabad sources reported that the Telangana Police is adopting a multi-pronged strategy to check possible "desperate action" by the outlawed CPI (Maoists) in districts bordering Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra in the run-up to the state Assembly elections on December 7. Recently the police anticipate that the Maoists might resort to some desperate action just to "create some sensation" and "prove their existence", citing intelligence inputs. Police say they have put in place all necessary security.
Police sources added, Maoists have been almost decimated in Telangana and their activities virtually are nil in the state, but, given the election season, police apprehend some threat (possibility of some offence) from the Maoist "action teams", in very few places particularly in the Bhadrachalam region that borders Chhattisgarh.
Moreover as per election notification, 13 of the 119 Assembly segments have been identified as sensitive to Left wing extremism (LWE), where election authorities will hold polling between 7 am and 4 pm. They said "But our action teams are ready and we can thwart any attempt by the outlaws to create trouble”.
