Ranchi, Dec 31 (IANS) Maoist rebels have not taken Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren’s offer to initiate dialogue seriously and his appeal to them to surrender and join the mainstream has been dismissed.
“Maoists will not surrender at the suggestion of Shibu Soren. Soren should not try to suppress the 40 year long struggle of the Maoists,” said Samarji, a Maoist leader in a press statement to a local Hindi newspaper.

Soren who took charge as the seventh chief minister of Jharkhand Wednesday had offered to initiate dialogue with Maoists and had appealed to them to surrender and join the mainstream of society.

“We will accept their genuine demands. We will understand what Maoists want only when they will initiate dialogue,” Soren had said.

Samarji was quoted in newspapers as saying: “We are more concerned about the poor than Soren is. Soren should go to villages and understand the problems of the people. He is an opportunist leader and he has joined hands with All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU) and Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) to form the government. Capitalists have control over the government and in the given scenario Jharkhand cannot develop.”

Soren formed the government with support of the BJP, AJSU and Janata Dal-United (JD-U).