Maoists plan counteroffensive operation

VISAKHAPATNAM: Tension gripped the AndhraOdisha Border (AOB) and the Agency areas of the district with intensified combing operations by the police and the Maoists gearing up to observe Lalgarh Agitation Day on November 13.
For the past few days members of the Galikonda Area Committee of the banned CPI (Maoist) have been pasting posters at Chintapalle, GK Veedhi and few other parts of the district and have called upon tribal people to observe Lalgarh Agitation Day and fight against the proposed bauxite, laterite and china clay mining in the Agency areas on the lines of the Lalgarh agitation in West Bengal.However, the people of Chintapalle, GK Veedhi and a few other areas have been living in fear for the past few days. Police forces (Greyhounds and Special Party Teams) are combing the Maoist strongholds on the suspicion that Maoist leaders from Chhattisgarh and Odisha are holding meetings on launching a Tactical Counter Offensive Campaign (TCOC) against security forces to consolidate their stranglehold on AOB.