“Martyrdom Week” kicks off in Naxal affected Jharkhand

TIL Desk/National/Ranchi-Security has been heightened across the Naxal-affected Jharkhand and Bastar division of Chhattisgarh which comprises districts of Dantewada, Bijapur, Bastar, Narayanpur, Kondagaon, Sukma and Kanker in view of the ‘Martyrdom Week’ that kicks off today.

Maoists observe ‘Martyrdom week’ every year from July 28 to August 4 to remember the “supreme sacrifices of the brave comrades who have laid down their lives in the effort to make the people’s revolutionary war a success”.

In Maoists’ calendar Martyrs’ week assumes the place of highest significance. Maoist leaders gather villagers in inaccessible jungles where programmes are held to glorify the lives of communist revolutionaries like Charu Majumdar and Kanu Sanyal, the founders of the Naxalbari movement.