The CPI (Maoist) is the largest left wing extremist organisation operating in India. It is responsible for almost 80 per cent of the total Naxal violence reported during the current year, according to R.P.N. Singh, Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs.

He said the CPI (Maoist) vision for its so-called ‘protracted people’s war’ against the Indian State is elucidated in its strategy paper titled “Strategy and Tactics of the Indian Revolution”. Briefly stated, this document contains a comprehensive plan of action to capture political power and usher in a so-called “New Democratic Revolution” in India. The strategy for “New Democratic Revolution” is a combination of military and political tactics involving the creation of ‘base areas’ (liberated areas) in the countryside and gradual encirclement and capture of the urban areas. This objective is sought to be achieved through armed warfare by the “People’s Liberation Guerilla Army” cadres of the CPI (Maoist), political mobilisation through its ‘front organisations’ and alliances with other insurgent outfits active in different parts of India, which in CPI (Maoist) parlance is called the “Strategic United Front”. The CPI (Maoist) seeks to organise a ‘joint front’ against the Indian State and in pursuance of this objective, it ideologically supports the secessionist movements in Jammu & Kashmir and the Northeast. It has also developed close organisational ties with certain insurgent groups in the Northeast for procurement of arms and ammunition.