Dhanbad: Within days of their meeting with a joint team of senior police officers from Jharkhand and West Bengal, the Maoists pasted posters and circulated handbills warning villagers against voting in the Lok Sabha polls in over dozen villages under Govindpur block on Tuesday night.
The Jharkhand Regional Military Commission-CPIML, issued the handbills directing the villagers to boycott the polls scheduled on April 24, creating panic among locals.
Maoists also demanded release of their jailed leaders and workers and an immediate ban on ‘Operation Green Hunt', check on price-rise, corruption and police atrocities on innocent villagers.
They visited villages of Tilaiya, Gurga, Birajpur Chawk, Birajpur High School, Sadhobad, Barbadih, Kharni Vidyalaya, Aasbani, Yadavpur, Kharni More near GT Road.