Author: IANS
Publication: Hindustan Times
Date: June 6, 2008
Naxalite Outfits seek resumes, interview candidates
interested in joining their cadre
Youths wanting to become Maoist guerrillas
in Jharkhand will now need presentation skills. Maoist groups are seeking
resumes shortlist candidates who will then want to take up arms.
If they pass the interview, the selected candidates
will be placed in different categories and draw salaries varying from Rs.
1,000 Rs 3,000 a month.
The recruitment drive has been launched by
five maoist outfits active in Jharkhand, police sources said.
The police have recovered over 100 neatly
filled application forms from Maoist hideouts. Fifty of them were seized in
Tamar block of Ranchi and in Jamshedpur and Khuti districts.
The application forms seek information sought
for any job. These include the candidates name, father name, educational qualification
and why she or he wants to enlist.
Successful candidates will be initially asked
to spy on the police and undergo arms training. They will be taken in only
after their credentials are verified thoroughly. According to Naresh Prasad,
deputy inspector general of police (Ranchi range), most candidates mentioned
in the seized application forms that they had tired to join the Jharkhand
Police but were rejected.
"The candides have tried to impress the
Maoists by spewing venom against the Police and the government," said
another Police official.
The five Maoist group active in Jharkhand
we the Communist Party of India-Maoist, Jharkhand Prastuti Committee, Tritiya
Prastuti Committee, Jharkhand Liberation Front and Sangarsh Jan Mukti Morcha.
In the last seven years, over 1,200 people
have been killed in Maoist-linked violence.