As Telangana goes for polls next month, nine posters in the name of the outlawed Maoist organisation sprang up in Bellampally town in Mancherial district on Thursday.
“These posters, six in One Town and three in Two Town area, seem to have been pasted between 3 am and 4.30 am by unknown persons who could even be the extremists themselves,” said Bellampally Assistant Commissioner of Police Balu Jadhav.
The posters, including a banner on a piece of red cloth, were in the name of CPI (Maoist) and its frontal organisations, Singareni Coal Belt Committee and the Sirpur-Chennur dalam, and sought boycott of the Assembly election.
The posters dubbed the TRS, Congress, BJP, and TDP as “stooges of capitalists,” and called the newly-formed Telangana Jana Samithi “opportunistic.” It also claimed the mainstream Left parties were “serving the cause of rulers through the parliamentary system.”
Pointing out that the Maoists have been demanding boycott of elections since the last two decades, the ACP said,: “We are however, leaving no stone unturned to find out who pasted the posters. And neither will we relax our vigil.”
So far as providing security cover to contestants in the December 7 election, Mr. Jadhav said it will be increased in the wake of latest development. “We will ensure that the voter turnout is highest,” he added.
Police has been watching the known hideouts of the extremists and their sympathisers besides carrying out area domination exercises since a few weeks. In earlier incidents, posters with the same demand have appeared in the villages along Pranahita river in Chennur area.