India’s only Maoist-turned-MP Kames-hwar Baitha had the bitter experience of the typical violence of the Left-wing rebels when they blew up his ancestral house in Jharkhand’s Palamu district three days after he was released from a jail in Bihar on bail.
A band of about 30 armed Maoists blew up the ancestral house of Mr Baitha, the JMM MP from Palamu, at Dhachabar village, about 40 km from Daltonganj, by triggering explosives late on Tuesday night.
None of Mr Baitha’s family members, however, was present in the brick house during the powerful blast that pulled it down almost entirely.
The Maoists took Mr Baitha’s local supporters hostage before the blast and chanted slogans against the Lok Sabha member as they left the village after the blast, said villagers.