Unlike the armed rural Naxalites, who are a recognized insurgent group, the "urban naxal" is a label used to describe alleged sympathizers and intellectuals in cities. 

These urban Naxalites are thriving in Jharkhand, one of top centre spaces in India today.

Consider this.

Even as the red zone of Naxalites( officially known as Left Wing Extremists)has shrunk from 126 districts in 2013 to 11 districts in 2025, the urban Naxalites continued to threaten the state apparatuses in Jharkhand and across India.

Urban Naxals, each in different colour,uniform and region, thrive in colleges,educational institutions and political parties. They have their own ideology - “demolish feudal- capitalist system” by violent revolution.

After security forces crushed them during the past ten- elevan years, prompting scores of them to give up their arms and ammunitions,some of urban Naxals lost the mega channel of fund flow.

The fund was collected through a well known modus oprendi called “ ransom”. The ransom money supplied a part of this sum to a hand full of urban Naxals by their operators cum commanders.Many think - tank colleagues linked Naxal leaders with political parties and led cozy life in metros and cities like Ranchi, Dhanbad, Bokaro and Jamshedpur in India.

Since Naxalites were on the brink of existence, crime connected with ransom was showing shine of decline.

However, urban Naxals seem to have adopted illegal cultivation and trade of narcotics to fund themselves and their cadres, a trend posing a mega threat to the State of India.

In interior forest areas inhabited by Adivasis in Jharkhand, for example, the urban Naxalites encourage land owners to cultivate the Cannabis sativa plant that contains over 100 different chemicals called drugs-cannabinoids, including delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).

In other words, Marijuana and Opium are being cultivated by Adivasis, supplied and sold by representatives of urban Naxals.Whats the proof?

The Telangana anti-narcotics wing--EAGLE--on October 22,2925, carried a joint operation with the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Ranchi Division.

The joint team intercepted a lorry transporting ganja in Jharkhand and seized 500 kg of Marijuana
known in Hindi as ganga.

Acting on specific input that a lorry would be transporting a substantial consignment of ganja on the intervening night of October 20-21, the Elite Action Group for Drug Law Enforcement (EAGLE) team from Telangana's Khammam rushed to Andhra-Odisha Border (AOB) region, an official release is on record having said.

The suspect vehicle was confirmed to have departed from Malkangiri district, Odisha on October 20 night, enroute to Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, it said.

Though initially expected to transit through Telangana, the suspects diverted the vehicle, avoiding heavily monitored routes. 

Upon detecting this change, the EAGLE team immediately redirected their pursuit and alerted the en route police stations. However, due to the vehicle's high speed, interception attempts en route were unsuccessful, the release said.

The team continued the chase throughout the night, relaying real-time location updates to superior officers, who in turn coordinated with the NCB Ranchi Division, it said.

Based on this intelligence, the joint team intercepted the vehicle at Simdega, Jharkhand and seized 500 kg of ganja and took one person into custody in this connection while two receivers currently residing in Varanasi are missing, the release added.

Now, the origin of this huge narcotic trade and money trail from cultivators and suppliers to urban Naxalites must be inquired into.  

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