Raipur: Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh on Tuesday announced the names of two mediators to negotiate with the Naxals for the safe release of the abducted Sukma Collector Alex Paul Menon.

After the Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan and former MLA Manish Kunjam declined to mediate on behalf of the Naxals, the government named SK Mishra, former chief secretary of Chhattisgarh and Nirmala Buch, former chief secretary of Madhya Pradesh, as the mediators.


The Former chief secretaries of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh will hold talks with the abductors to release the 32-year-old Menon, whose health condition has deteriorated in Maoists' captivity.


While expressing his concern over the poor health of the 2006 batch IAS officer, the CM said that former chief secretaries of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh will mediate with the Maoist mediators on behalf of the state government.


Even though Bhushan and Kunjam refused to be the mediators of Maoists, the third mediator, former SC/ST commission Chief BD Sharma, agreed to mediate in the matter adding that he is waiting for the proposal from the state government.


Meanwhile, the government has sent medicines for the abducted Menon through Kunjam, who was reluctant to be a mediator, after the Maoists issued a statement saying that the Collector's health has turned critical.


Menon's wife has been appealing to the abductors to release her husband as he is suffering from Asthma and he had not carried any medicine with him when he was abducted.

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