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As galore arsenic 140 erstwhile Maoists, including 54 women, visited the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly successful Raipur connected Wednesday (March 18, 2026) to observe its proceedings, marking a important measurement successful their further reintegration into nine aft giving up the way of violence.
The surrendered cadres besides met Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai successful the premises of the Assembly, which is having its fund session, and held a elaborate treatment astir their lives earlier surrender and existent condition, an authoritative connection said.
During the interaction, the erstwhile rebels told Mr. Sai that their lives had undergone a implicit translation arsenic they earlier lived successful forests amid fearfulness and insecurity, but present bask a harmless and dignified beingness with their families, it said.
They highlighted accelerated improvement successful their respective regions, including improved roads, regular electricity, and beingness of different basal infrastructure, which has made regular beingness easier.
Some of them became affectional portion sharing that they had celebrated festivals similar Holi with their families for the archetypal clip successful their life, an acquisition they described arsenic some caller and joyful, the merchandise said.
Welcoming them into the mainstream, Mr. Sai noted that their determination to shun equipped conflict marked not conscionable a idiosyncratic transformation, but besides a important measurement towards a brighter aboriginal for Chhattisgarh, wherever ample swathes of territory were erstwhile nether the power of Maoists.
The CM emphasised that by placing their spot successful the Constitution, the erstwhile Maoists person acceptable a affirmative and inspiring illustration for others.
Mr. Sai assured that the State Government remains afloat committed to the rehabilitation, employment, and societal reintegration of surrendered Maoists.
He asserted that Maoism successful the State is successful its last signifier and expressed assurance that the extremity of its elimination, nether the enactment of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, would beryllium achieved soon.
The Centre has vowed to wholly destruct Left-wing Extremism by March 31, 2026.
Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Sharma, who holds the Home portfolio, Forest Minister Kedar Kashyap, and Panchayat and Rural Development Department Principal Secretary Niharika Barik were besides contiguous during the interaction.
Earlier, connected February 27, astir 120 erstwhile Maoists, including elder person Rupesh, had visited the Assembly to witnesser its proceedings.
