of a few "innocent Congress [INC] functionaries" during the incident, they hold the Bharatiya Janata Party and Indian National Congress' policies which they view as "anti-people" in nature, as directly responsible for the attack. Later, 14 Maoist who had allegedly participated in the ambush were gunned down in Odisha by the Special Operation Group with the assistance of Border Security Force. On 3 April 2021, twenty-two soldiers were killed in a Maoist ambush on the border of Bijapur and Sukma districts in southern Chhattisgarh. Those killed included 14 Chhattisgarh policemen and seven jawans of the CRPF, including six members of its elite CoBRA unit, specially trained to take on Maoist guerillas. On 4 January 2022, CPI (Maoist) attacked former former BJP MLA of Manoharpur Gurucharan Nayak in West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand. Nayak escaped but Maoist slit the throat of his two bodyguards, snachted their AK-47 rifles and fled. The two bodyguards died in the incident. See also List of organisations banned by the Government of India Anti-revisionism Operation Steeplechase Revolutionary Internationalist Movement List of communist parties List of Naxalite and Maoist groups in India Red Ant Dream Deo Kumar Singh Ganapathy (Maoist) References External links An exclusive interview to The Hindu by Azad, spokesperson of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), The Hindu Interview With Communist Party of India (Maoist) Spokesperson Azad, The Hindu Interview With Comrade Ganapathy, General Secretary (GS), CPI (Maoist) given to Swedish writer Jan Myrdal and Gautam Navlakha, January 2010 The French journalist, Vanessa's conversation with Narmada and several other Comrades, OPEN What is daily life inside a Maoist forest hideout like? — BBC India's Red Tide — SBS Dateline International Campaign Against War on the People in India Are We The Enemy You Fear?, Tehelka The heart of India is under attack, The Guardian 2004 establishments in India Anti-imperialist organizations Communist parties in India Communist terrorism Far-left politics in India Maoist organisations in India Organisations designated as terrorist by India Organizations based in Asia designated as terrorist Political parties established in 2004