New Delhi: A day after the Prime Minister called extremists the biggest threat to internal security, there is news of another CPM worker having been shot dead in West Midnapore - the fourth such victim in three days.
Naxals are suspected to be behind the attack.
The incident took place in the Kotwali police station area early on Wednesday morning.
About 35 CPM workers have been killed in the Jagalmahal area - spread over West Midnapore, Bankura and Puruliaa - since June. More than 20 people - mostly CPM workers - have been abducted.
Seventeen companies of paramilitary forces are stationed in the region and the West Bengal government has asked for 10 more to combat the Naxals.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had described Naxals as the biggest threat to the nation's internal security, bigger than even terrorism from across the border.
"In many ways left-wing extremism is greatest threat to our internal security. We have discussed this for the last five years and I must say frankly that we have not achieved as much success as we might have lacked in curbing the menace," he had said.
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