EKTA (Committee for Communal Amity), Mumbai expresses its sense of horror at the reported move of the Government of India, in collaboration with the respective state governments, to launch a large-scale armed offensive against Maoist insurgents in eastern and central India.
Such an operation cannot but result in huge "collateral" damages to the local populace, mainly indigenous people steeped deep in appalling poverty.
It also finds it particularly disturbing that the insurgents, in turn, have in the recent days accelerated their killing spree.