PC says he will not allow armed revolution by Maoists

Madurai, Nov 1 (PTI) Two days after extending an olive
branch to Maoists, Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram has said
that he will not allow an armed revolution to succeed in India
till his last breath.
"Till my last blood is there in my life, I will not
allow armed revolution or terrorism and violence to overtake
us in India," he told a public meeting here Saturday night.
Chidambaram said both Congress party and Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) governments at the Centre had
"underestimated" the Naxalites for the last 10 to 13 years.
"Now they (Naxalites) are trying to create problems in
the country with arms in their hands. They are not going to
succeed in this," he said.
At the same time, he said the Indian government is
ready to have dialogue with them provided they abjure
violence.
The Home Minister said the "Naxalites are our own
countrymen and not enemies like Pakistani terrorists".
On Tamils displaced within Sri Lanka, he said the visit
of a delegation of MPs (Members of Parliament) from India's
southern state of Tamil Nadu to that country earlier this
month had helped in sending back nearly 81,000 such people to
their homes from camps.
The Sri Lankan government had given an assurance that
the remaining Tamils would also be sent back to their homes
from camps at the earliest, Chidambaram said. PTI