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Maoists considered India's biggest internal security threat

The government considers the Maoist Communist Party of India the biggest threat to the country's internal security and it's now officially banned the Maoists in what some are calling a 'technicality' to close a loophole. The Maoists avoided a ban five years ago when individual factions regrouped as as The Communist Party of India (Maoist), who are different from other - more mainstream - Communist parties which work within the electoral system. But the ban comes as the Maoists have been staging a strike to protest against alleged atrocities by police in areas that the Maoists control in West Bengal.

India Security Threat Environment
The intelligence apparatus in India faces challenges on four main fronts (being the world largest democracy and that too in a region where there no other single stable democracy comes with a price):
1) There has been a sea change in the perception of what constitutes Indian "national space." The definition is much broader now and issues such as economics, media, and science that were for some time considered removed from the realm of intelligence targeting are now indivisible parts of it. At the very least concepts such as Economic-Warfare, Cyber-warfare, and Media-Offensive, etc... have served to increase intelligence targeting needs.
2) There is a change in the tenor of revisionist sentiment within the country. Revisionists today are able to use sophisticated resources to aggressively project their views. In some cases this leads to advanced forms of terrorism. It can also exacerbate the existing fissures and divisions in society i.e. caste, religion, ethnicity, and economic disparity. Intelligence agencies today are under a lot of pressure to predict and thus help contain revisionism.
3) The nature of organized crime has changed and its infiltration into society is growing. The merger of the local crime syndicates with narcotics distributors and arms smugglers...