Salwa Jududm - Remixed and relaunched in Chhattisgarh

Salwa Judum undergoes rebranding exercise now to be known as Dandakaranya Shanti Sangharsh Samiti

The Judum is dead, long live the Judum

Chinnaram Gotta ploughs his fields with a tractor, three bodyguards and five guns: two ancient Lee Enfield .303 bolt action rifles, a modern Self Loading Rifle, a 0.315 sports rifle and a double-barrel 12 bore shotgun. While the bodyguards, .303’s and SLR are courtesy the Chhattisgarh police, the sports rifle and shotgun are Gotta’s personal weapons.

“The Maoists have made 29 attempts on my life,” said Mr Gotta, at his home in Pharsegarh village in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, “I carry a gun when I go to the toilet.”