Naxalism News
While developments like roads, schools and free ration schemes are helping the poor in the naxal-affected belts, the areas infected with 'red terror' have shrunk in the past 15 years due to multiple factors including intense combing operations by the security forces.
Security forces recovered fake currency notes belonging to Naxalites in the state of Chhattisgarh, which has been struggling with Naxalism for more than 3 decades.
29 Naxal rebels were killed in an encounter in Chhattisgarh's Kanker by the security forces on Tuesday.
Six personnel of CRPF's elite COBRA battalion got injured in a bomb blast after an encounter with the outlawed CPI(Maoist) at Tumbahaka forest in Jharkhand's naxal-affected West Singhbhum district.
Sounding the poll bugle for Chhattisgarh Assembly Elections this year, Amit Shah urged people to vote out the Bhupesh Baghel-led Congress government in the state.
The Union Home Minister reviewed with the chief ministers and officials the security situation and ongoing operations against Maoists and development projects being carried out in Naxal-hit areas, the sources said.
The meeting will be held in Vigyan Bhawan where Chief Ministers of all the ten Naxal-affected states - Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Kerala and Madhya Pradesh - or their representatives will apprise about the current situation in their states and the progress of developmental projects.
A `Durga Fighter` force has been constituted in Chhattisgarh.
It comprises 32 female staff to combat Naxalism in the Sukma district.
The new recruits will be trained for a month.
On 3 April, Rakeshwar Singh Manhas, a CoBRA jawan abducted by Naxalites ambushed in Bijapur, was released on Thursday (8 April). Zee News featured this news on the prime time show DNA with Sudhir Chaudhary on 08 April. So far in 6 days, more than 10 million people have watched this analysis on Facebook alone.
On 3 April, Rakeshwar Singh Manhas, a CoBRA jawan abducted by Naxalites ambushed in Bijapur, was released on Thursday (8 April). Zee News featured this news in the prime time show DNA with Sudhir Chaudhary. India supported this campaign of Zee News in number of millions.
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The chief ministers of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal are expected to attend the meeting.
G Kishan Reddy said that a National Policy and Action Plan was formulated by the Central government in January 2015 to tackle the Naxal menace in a holistic manner.
I have achieved most of the targets working as Home Minister. We have successfully tackled the Naxal menace. Naxalism has been contained in 130 districts. The moral of our security forces have been strengthened. The situation will change for the better, says Rajnath Singh.
Targeting the opposition Congress, he said a party that felt Naxalism was a medium for revolution could not do any good for Chhattisgarh.
Rajnath Singh addressed the 26th anniversary of the RAF on Sunday.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national general secretary Ram Madhav on Thursday said that activists, who support Naxals, are now scared of going to jail. He added that Naxalism will soon end in India.
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