Seven days

After coming to power, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had suspended the operations of the joint forces — Central paramilitary and state police — in the Maoist-affected Junglemahal area in West Midnapore district. The fallout was increasing violence and political assassinations, and a renewed terrorising of the people by the Maoists. Banerjee had been warned earlier about the dangers of both placating and ignoring the Maoists. 

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