Amit Shah said that along with fighting problem of Naxalism, the security forces are also monitoring the development works in the left extremism affected areas.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that the government will be able to free the country from the menace of Naxalism by March 2026. Amit Shah also said that a strong and ruthless strategy is required for the final assault against Left Wing Extremism (LWE). The home minister also said Naxal violence is a challenge to democracy and the menace has claimed about 17,000 lives in the country.
“100% saturation of Central govt and Chhattisgarh govt’s schemes in the naxal affected areas, the progress of infrastructure projects in such areas and to remove the challenges faced during such projects, this meeting was for that. Time has come to carry out the final assault along with ruthless politics to tackle leftism and naxalism”, the Union Home Minister Amit Shah said.
“In the first 10 years, 6617 security personnel and citizens were killed and now there has been a 70% reduction. Similarly, we have witnessed a 69 per cent reduction in the deaths of citizens. I believe that our fight has reached the end phase and by March 2026, we will be able to free the country completely from naxalism,” Shah added.
He added, “We were successful in generating faith in development against the ideology of left-wing extremism among people. We worked for two purposes, one to establish the rule of law and develop the region”.
Urging Naxals to shun violence, Shah announced that the Chhattisgarh government would announce a ”new look” surrender policy in 1-2 months.
Amit Shah said that the ‘Bastariya Battalion’ was raised in CRPF in 2017 in which all the jawans were from the Bastar region. He said that after taking approval from the Union Cabinet, 400 tribal soldiers from Dantewada, Sukma and Bijapur were recruited in this battalion under a special campaign in 2022.
Union Home Minister said that along with fighting this problem, the security forces are also monitoring the development works in the left extremism affected areas. He said that in the last 10 years of Modi government, a lot of work has been done in Chhattisgarh towards connectivity, road construction and financial adjustment.