Click to play videoNew Delhi: Home Minister P Chidambaram said in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday that the government has failed in assesing the naxal problem in the country. the country had not taken the naxal threat with the seriousness it required, said Chidambaram.
"We did not assess the Left wing extremist challenge correctly. I think we underestimated the challenge, " said P Chidambaram.
This comes a day after the Jharkhand Police recovered a consignment of communication equipment meant for Maoists on Tuesday.
The consignment was sent as cargo from New Delhi on a state-run domestic flight.
The recovered equipment included walkie-talkies, a number of radio sets, micro tape recorders and signal receivers, among others.
Police officials said two persons involved in the operation were arrested, one from Palamu in Jharkhand and the other from New Delhi.
Hundreds of Maoists, who are expanding their influence in India, had declared the town of Lalgarh about 170 km (100 miles) from Kolkata, as a "liberated zone" recently before they fled in face of police action.
Maoists, who say they are fighting for the rights of poor farmers and landless labourers, are expanding their influence in east, central and southern India.
Thousands have been killed in the insurgency which began in the late 1960s and which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has described as a grave threat to India's internal security.
(With inputs from ANI)
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