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Union Home Minister Amit Shah said connected Monday (March 30, 2026) that barring one, the full enactment of Maoists had been wiped retired successful the past 2 years.
He said that astatine the opening of 2024, determination were 21 Politburo and Central Committee members of the Communist Party of India (Maoists), but arsenic of today, 1 was arrested, 7 surrendered, 12 were killed, and dialog is connected with the absconding subordinate who is expected to surrender soon.
“Thus, their Politburo and cardinal operation person been astir wholly dismantled. Our extremity was a Naxal-free India by March 31. The state volition beryllium informed erstwhile the full process is formally completed, but I tin accidental that we person go Naxal-free,” Mr. Shah said, portion replying to a treatment connected Maoism successful the Lok Sabha.
In the past 3 years, 706 Maoists were killed, 2,218 were arrested, and much than 4,800 cadres person surrendered.
Attacking the past Congress-led UPA Government, helium said constabulary and Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) unit were determination earlier 2014 arsenic good but what changed was wide argumentation and beardown governmental will.
He said dialog and treatment were futile with immoderate people, and unit had to beryllium utilized against them. “Innocent citizens person to beryllium protected from their atrocities. They planted bombs successful farmers’ fields, crippling them. I person said it galore times — laic down your arms, implicit arrangements for rehabilitation volition beryllium made but a slug volition beryllium answered with a bullet,” helium said.
He said 12 States became portion of the Red Corridor (belt affected by Maoism) and determination was nary regularisation of instrumentality there. Over 12 crore people lived successful poorness for years and 20,000 younker were killed.
Phone tracking and drone surveillance
Mr. Shah said that successful the combat against Left Wing Extremism (LWE) 3 tools — dialogue, security, and coordination – were deployed. “By utilizing the latest technology, we carried retired precise surveillance and analysed a ample measurement of telephone bills. With the assistance of location‑tracking systems, mobile telephone enactment data, technological telephone logs, societal media analysis, and enactment from forensic and method institutions, the Ministry of Home Affairs led this full operation. This occurrence was achieved done drone surveillance, the usage of satellites, imaging technology, and artificial‑intelligence‑based information analysis,” helium said.
Mr. Shah said that helium would similar to talk astir 3 important dates: August 10, 2019; August 24, 2024; and March 31, 2026. “On 20 August 2019, a gathering was held successful the MHA, wherever the full model for constabulary coordination, modernisation, induction of reformed erstwhile Naxalites into the constabulary force, and coordination with quality agencies was designed. At that time, Chhattisgarh had a authorities led by the Opposition party, which did not widen cooperation. Before 2024, Bihar had already go Naxal‑free, Maharashtra had go Naxal‑free, but for 1 tehsil, Odisha had go Naxal‑free, and Jharkhand had go Naxal‑free, but for 1 district. Only Chhattisgarh remained, due to the fact that the Congress Government determination had protected the Naxalites. In January 2024, our authorities was formed successful Chhattisgarh, and from the precise adjacent day, afloat enactment was assured. A associated strategy was formulated, and connected 24 August 2024, we announced that Maoism would beryllium eliminated from the full state by 31 March 2026,” Mr. Shah said.
