A Study of Maoist affected Jangle Mahal

Abstract

Jangle Mahal is a barren and rugged land surrounded by hills and forests, sharing border Orissa and Jharkhand in the south- West of West Bengal. After a long period of Naxal Movement, Arms movement started again in West Bengal. In spite of century’s poverty and deprivation of the people in this region, no massive people’s movement has ever developed here since the independence. Even the land movements organized by communists during this period in other parts of the state did not significantly spread to this area. The Naxalist, first MMC group, and the peoples war group and finally after their unity, the CPI (Maoist) party try to organized the people since the 1980,s. the Maoists, no doubt are dedicated and self-sacrificing, working for the uplift and liberation of downtrodden people, though many have serious and reasonable differences with their methods. The Maoists gained the sympathy and support of the people of the jangle on the basis of the burning problems in the area. The simple indigenous people of jangle area had been alienated from the government due to government deprivation, The dominance of the ruling party, corruption in local government and the complexity of government machinery. After 2011 assembly election in west Bengal Trinamul congress (TMC) came into power led by Mamata Banerjee. The mamata’s government has initiated lots of efforts and welfare scheme to jangle mahal for peace and development. Although Mamata’s development agenda has undergone many changes in jangle mahal. But some important local issues still remain.