P.V. Ramana replies: The objective of the Naxalites is to seize/capture political/state power through protracted armed struggle. All the other demands are meant to achieve this goal. The major demands include rights over water, forests, land and mineral wealth (jal, jungle, zameen and khanij).
Lack of political consensus, implementation and monitoring of development schemes and programmes, issues of governance and security force preparedness are the challenges the government is faced with.
CPI (Maoist) and Urban Movement
The Urban Movement has a defined role in the political strategy and military strategy of the CPI (Maoist). In the Maoist schemes, Urban Movement is to broadly to mobilise and organise the basic masses and build the party on that basis ; build the United Front ; and military tasks .