He announced the reduction of the Maoist insurgency-affected districts from 12 to only six, a significant achievement from the government’s end to end the insurgency. In a post on the X — formerly Twitter — app, Shah tweeted describing this as a ‘giant stride’ towards a Maoist-free India and that the government is committed to eliminating Maoism from the country by March 31, 2026.
Shah said that the reduction of severely affected districts was a vindication of the Modi government’s measures to contend with Left-wing extremism, which had reduced the number of those districts. “Our nation took a giant stride forward in the direction of building a Naxal-free Bharat by cutting down the number of districts affected most by left-wing extremism significantly to just 6 from 12, he wrote. States that the Modi government is building a Naxal gang, or Sashakt, Surakshit, and Samriddh Bharat with a take-no-prisoners approach to Naxalism and relentless work designating every field of development for all pervasiveness.”
In the meantime, Maoist violence has gone down with intensive anti-insurgent operations in regions such as Chhattisgarh, a state that has been badly hit by Left-wing extremism. More than two dozen have been killed in gun battles over the past week, and 100 Maoist rebels have been killed this year alone. In general, these are part of the government’s wider moves to build a Maoist insurgency in the next 4 years.
A high number of 219 Maoists were killed in 2024, up from 22 killed in 2023 and 30 in 2022 in Chhattisgarh. The emergence of these developments, however, highlights continued strong government efforts in confronting Maoist forces in an effort to clamp down on violence and achieve lasting peace in affected areas.
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