Amit Shah to meet CMs of eight Maoist-hit states tomorrow, review situation

This comes aft 31 Maoists were killed successful Abujhmad — agelong considered a Maoist stronghold and a cardinal absorption country successful the combat against Naxalism — successful the azygous largest brushwood successful Chhattisgarh’s 24-year history.

“Due to the strategy of the Narendra Modi government, the Left Wing Extremism (LWE) unit has travel down by 72% portion determination is 86% diminution successful deaths successful 2023 arsenic compared with 2010. The Naxals are warring its past conflict now,” it said.

Five Union Ministers of ministries intimately progressive with providing improvement enactment to the LWE-affected states volition besides attend. The Deputy NSA and elder officers from the Centre, states and CAPFs volition besides instrumentality part. “Under the enactment of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and guidance of the location minister, the cardinal authorities is committed to wholly basal retired the menace of the LWE by March 2026. The cardinal authorities is providing each imaginable assistance to the LWE-affected authorities governments successful warring the menace of Naxalism,” the connection said.

“The twelvemonth 2024, truthful far, has witnessed unprecedented occurrence by the information forces successful elimination of equipped LWE cadres. So far, 202 LWE cadres person been eliminated this twelvemonth and 723 LWE cadres person surrendered portion 812 person been arrested. The fig of LWE-affected districts person travel down to conscionable 38 successful 2024,” it said.

Shah had past chaired a reappraisal gathering with the CMs of the LWE-affected states connected October 6 past year. During that meeting, Shah had fixed broad directions with respect to elimination of LWE.