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NEW DELHI, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- India for the first time branded the extreme left-wing Naxalite rebels as "terrorists" Friday, after the rebels blew up a railway track in which a train derailed, killing two passengers and injuring over 60 others.
　　Indian Home Secretary G.K. said there is no difference between terrorists and the rebels, as they are making railway stations, trains, mobile towers and schools as "soft targets".
　　"They also held up a train in West Bengal. I have no sympathy for them," Pillai told the media in the eastern Indian state of Orissa.
　　But the official said that no military action has been planned against the Naxalites, though anti-Naxal operations are on to flush them out of the infested states.
　　According to sources, Naxalites control about 165 of India's 602 districts and have 9,000 to 10,000 armed fighters, 6,500 firearms and about 40,000 full-time cadres.
　　Indian Home Secretary G.K. said there is no difference between terrorists and the rebels, as they are making railway stations, trains, mobile towers and schools as "soft targets".
　　"They also held up a train in West Bengal. I have no sympathy for them," Pillai told the media in the eastern Indian state of Orissa.
　　But the official said that no military action has been planned against the Naxalites, though anti-Naxal operations are on to flush them out of the infested states.
　　According to sources, Naxalites control about 165 of India's 602 districts and have 9,000 to 10,000 armed fighters, 6,500 firearms and about 40,000 full-time cadres.
