A day after Naxals brutally killed intelligence office Francis Indwar in Jharkhand, Home Minister P Chidambaram said today that if Naxals would abjure violence, the government can talk to them.

"The government does not call confronting Naxals a war. We do not wage war against our own people," he said.

It is the Naxals who are holding up to armed struggle, he added.

He clarified that as Naxals claim to be working for poor, the government also is working for the poor people. He said, the government can work togehter with Naxals but for this they would have to leave violence.