Raipur, April 25 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday reported a significant breakthrough in its investigation into suspicious financial networks operating within the Maoist-affected regions of Chhattisgarh. After a series of coordinated raids across multiple states, including targeted operations in the Dhamtari and Bastar districts, the central agency has gathered substantial evidence pointing toward an organised system of foreign funding. According to sources, the operation led …
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New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah delivered on his promise of a ‘Naxal Mukt Bharat’. The Home Minister announced that all members of the Naxal central and state committees have been killed, arrested or have surrendered. Talks are on with the last active CPI (Maoist) central committee member, he said, signalling the near-complete end of the Maoist leadership.The Red Corridor, once stretched from Tirupati to Nepal, has shrunk to just two districts from its peak of 126. Whil…
New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Jagdambika Pal, on Tuesday, launched a sharp attack on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over Naxalism, alleging that the previous Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government allowed Left-wing extremism to expand across several states, while asserting that strong measures taken under current Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership have significantly curtailed its spread.Speaking to IANS, Pal said that Rahul Gandhi’s public sta…
Raipur/New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) With Union Home Minister Amit Shah declaring that India has effectively achieved a Naxal-free status by meeting the government’s self-imposed deadline of March 31, a significant breakthrough has been marked for the country, which was previously seen as a prolonged conflict that earlier governments found challenging to address.When HM Shah addressed the Lok Sabha on the issue on March 30, the country was face-to-face with a reality. What was once dismissed as a…
New Delhi, March 30 (IANS) India’s tryst with Naxalism began in 1967 and continued into the 2000s in various forms and names, beginning with challenging feudal landholdings that later spread southwards, rising in defiance against the larger state itself in accordance with Mao Zedong’s phrase, “political power comes from the barrel of a gun.” The doctrine of Communist China’s founding father — adopted in India by a handful of ultra-Leftists from a peasant uprising at Naxalbari in n…
New Delhi, March 30 (IANS) Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Monday launched a sharp attack on the Congress party in the Lok Sabha, accusing it of giving a “red carpet” welcome to Naxalites and strengthening the Red Corridor during its rule. He asserted that under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership, the government has successfully curbed the menace, reducing Naxalite influence from 126 districts to fewer than two.“Today, Naxalites are being neutralised, and many are surrendering….
Bhubaneswar, March 6 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said security forces will completely dismantle the dream of a Red Corridor from Tirupati to Pashupatinath temple and make India Naxal-free by March 31, while praising the role of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) in the anti-Maoist operations.Addressing the gathering during the CISF’s 57th Raising Day ceremony in Cuttack, Odisha, HM Shah said, “The Narendra Modi government has taken a pledge that by March 31, 2026…
Raipur/Bijapur, Dec 28 (IANS) In a significant blow to Maoist insurgency in the Bastar region, personnel of the 199th Battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) recovered and neutralised two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) planted by Maoists, averting a potential tragedy.According to police officials, the operation was conducted under the jurisdiction of Gangaloor Police Station. A CRPF team deployed from the Forward Operating Base (FOB) Koppaguda was undertaking routine area domin…