Click to play videoLalgarh: Maoist crisis in Lalgarh is far from over despite all the efforts by the West Bengal government and paramilitary forces to restore normalcy in the area.
The West Bengal is now facing the problem of feeding and rehabilitating thousands of villagers who were forced to flee the area during the anti-Maoist operation by security forces.
One such displaced villager Taru Argal has been standing in the queue for the past five hours. Taru, a tribal from a Lalgarh, went hungry on Tuesday when the West Bengal government suspended relief distribution after it ran out of stock, just a day after relief camps started.
But after the relief distribution resumed, thousands of Lalgarh villagers who had once boycotted the district administration turned up at the Block Development Office for their share of six kilos of rice per head.
For villagers like Taru it's the only means of fighting hunger.
"We are facing a lot of difficulties. Shops are closed and nothing is available. We have no idea where we will go now," says Taru.
The overwhelming response to government aid indicates that not all Lalgarh tribals want to keep the administration out and it is this opportunity that the Bengal government wants to utilise now to enter not only the villages but also people's hearts.
Bureaucrats like West Bengal Chief Secretary Ashok Chakravarty, who visited Lalgarh, also concentrated on addressing the unfolding humanitarian crisis.
But even as more paramilitary troops moved in, there were no indications as to when the forces would start getting into the no-entry zone in Lalgarh.
"Which direction will the forces go, what all they will do that central and state forces will decide among themselves. This is not something that we decide from Kolkata," West Bengal Chief Secretary Ashok Chakravarty.
Meanwhile, despite the government's efforts to restore normalcy, Lalgarh's annual Rath Yatra suffered its biggest setback in over a century.
The glamour and excitement associated with the Rath Yatra was missing in a clear sign of the turmoil in the region.
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