The outlawed CPI (Maoist) has blamed Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh and state health minister Amar Agrawal for the deaths of 13 women during a recent sterilisation drive and sought their resignation.
The Maoists dropped pamphlets and put up banners in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Dantewada district protesting against the sterilisation tragedy. “The pamphlets and posters were recovered from a road near Kumharras village under Dantewada police station limits last evening,” Dantewada superintendent of police Kamlochan Kashyap told PTI.
In the pamphlets, the West Bastar division committee of the banned outfit has alleged that the chief minister and the health minister were responsible for the deaths of the poor women during the sterilisation camps in Bilaspur district.
“They have lost the moral ground to continue in their positions,” it said. The Chhattisgarh government has constituted a probe panel under a retired judge to investigate the botched surgeries that have also left 138 women ill.