Indian Maoists being trained in Nepal...and we are just making it worse.

The Ministry of Home Affairs has just warned the state governments that many Indian Maoists are being trained along with the People's Liberation Army of Nepal Maoists by Lashkar-e-Toiba in Nepal. Considering that the Indian Government has thrown all its weight (read below) against letting Nepalese Maoists build a democratically-elected coalition government in the country, what can you expect from them.

The Nepalese Maoists, after a decade of bloody civil war, laid down their arms in 2006 to join the Nepalese democracy. However since 2009, when the Maoists resigned from the government, the country has been a rudderless democracy. Yesterday Nepal failed to elect a new Prime Minister, for the twelfth time in the last two months! 

And to top it all off, the Indian Government is doing all it can to disallow the Maoists from making a coalition government. A month ago, an Indian intelligence operative actually threatened a member of Nepalese Parliament to have his daughter's admission revoked from the embassy-run Kendriya Vidyalaya if the MP does not vote a particular way. True story.

Of course with this attitude towards Maoists, it is no surprise that they are looking at us as their enemies. What does government expect to achieve even if it succeeds in ousting Maoists from the democratic process? Maoists with more than 8,000 troops and experience of fighting civil war for more than a decade. Won't their failure as a democratic party simply boost the extremist factions within them and lead to greater sponsorship to the Indian Maoists?