The Ministry officials said the West Bengal government seems to have failed to tackle the extremists despite having sufficient paramilitary forces.

Officials said incidents of murder of political workers, ironically most of them belonging to ruling Left Front, and innocent villagers by terming them as “police informers” and policemen, have become common in the 150-km area in West Midnapore district.

“The situation in Lalgarh-Jhargram area is very disturbing. The Maoists have been killing people at will and it seems there is no one to check them,” a senior official said. Burning houses, setting fire on vehicles, rampant extortion, destroying office buildings, bridges and other infrastructure have been going on freely.

Despite having around 2,500 Central paramilitary personnel and adequate number of local police force, the state government has failed to tackle the Naxals.

“I am disappointed over the Lalgarh situation...The situation is pretty depressing...despite adequate number (of) Central paramilitary forces (being) sent to them in June 2009, the West Bengal government has not been able to contain the problem,” Chidambaram said.

The Home Ministry seems frustrated due to Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government to nab CPI (Maoist) leader Kishanji.