June 27, 2007 (LPAC)--Using the anti-poor, discriminatory economic policy of the Manmohan Singh-led government in New Delhi as the raison d'etre, India's Maoists once again resorted to violence by blowing up a railway station and disrupting public transport system across several Indian states on the second day of their call for a two-day nationwide strike.

India's economic policy, which has become GDP-growth centered and increasingly disassociated from the realities on the ground, has ignored that some parts of India are reeling under Maoist-terrorist threats and becoming altogether ungovernable.

The Indian Maoists, known in the 1960s as "Naxalites," have proliferated. They have taken control of a huge swath of land running from the state of Bihar in the north all the way to the state of Tamil Nadu in the south, encompassing in the process highly underdeveloped areas of Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, and Andhra Pradesh. One common thread that runs through this massive stretch of land is: underdevelopment and poverty.

In West Bengal, insurgents used powerful explosives to blow up Biramdih railway station in a pre-dawn attack. "Dozens of Maoist rebels tied up all the railway employees and just blew the station and torched whatever was left of it before melting into darkness," said Mahabir Pyne, a local resident, reports Reuters.

In the state of Andhra Pradesh, rebels called out employees of a coffee extracting plant from work near the port city of Vishakhapatnam, and blew it up. Authorities in many mineral-rich regions of south, east and central India suspended public transport. Shops were shut in rural areas and mining operations in the states of Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh were suspended. On Tuesday, a goods train engine was blown up and another set ablaze in Jharkhand. Rebels also set ablaze five trucks transporting minerals in the state.