Bhubaneswar: Member of the Odisha State Committee from CPI (Maois) Nikhil aka Niranjan Rout and Dasru could be the brain behind the recent twin IED explosion, which killed two civilians in the past week.
They executed plans with a handful of their cadres, the police sources said.
Security forces have tracked their movements in the Kandhamal and Lostal District in the last few days and intensifying preliminary surgery in the tri-junction area of ​​religious and raya.
While Dasru was a native of Chhattisgarh, Nikhil came from the Jagatsinghpur and before a close colleague Sabyasachi Panda, who is now in prison.
Both of them were 30s.
Nikhil was among the top three in the State Committee after Jayaram Chalapati and Murli.
Police sources say about 120 Maoist cadres are active in the tri-intersection area where the troops have intensified the operation to neutralize it.
In the last time about a month, the left-wing extremists have displayed posters who asked people to boycott the upcoming election of Panchayat from 16 to 24 in several districts.
(Southern Kisaran) Satyabrata Bhoi said the election with strategic violence activities to show their presence.
“They have adopted a very old explosive planting strategy.
The troops are well equipped and fully ready to meet the challenges.
Combining operations has been intensified to ensure violent polls.
Their strength weakens.
There are almost no local cadres with them,” he said.
Sources said the police had intelligence input that the poster and IED strategy by rebels were extorting money from candidates in the poll.
This is a strategy adopted by them beforehand, the source said.
MAOIS activities in several parts of the country came during the part of the central armed police forces (CAPF), including the CRPF and BSF, deployed in Odisha have been mobilized for five countries bound by polls to reduce strength effective strength at ground.
Of the 94 CAPF companies, 16 companies (each of each from BSF and CRPF) have been sent to Uttar Pradesh and Punjab poll countries.
At present, 30 CRPF companies and 48 BSF are in the state.
This is separate, from state forces, eight IRB companies and special security battalions have been sent to the top.
However, IG Bhoi said there was no problem in the workforce involved in anti-naxal activities.
While a journalist was killed in an Eid explosion in the fort February 5, a livestock grazer was killed in Kandhamal on Wednesday.