Tackling the Maoist problem, confidently

The transcript of an interview with Communist Party of India leader Sitaram Yechury done by Karan Thapar for the programme Devil's Advocate, on the West Bengal government's handling of the Maoist situation. When senior police officers are going out of their way to tell the press that the government was in a position to surround the Maoists before the Chief Minister called it off, that’s embarrassing. You’re deliberately missing the major point, that is: the political opponents to the Left Front are the ones patronising, bringing Maoists in and protecting them, and they’re sitting in the Central government. Let's come to a bigger, wider problem that’s crippling your government's ability to tackle the Maoists. Precisely because we don't use the police against the people who’re demanding… Then how’re you going to tackle the Maoists today?