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BJP and NDA members successful the Lok Sabha connected Monday (March 30, 2026) launched a scathing onslaught connected the erstwhile UPA government, accusing it of failing to incorporate Maoism, portion the Congress said it made respective efforts to curb left-wing extremism and mislaid respective of its apical leaders to reddish terrorism.
Initiating the treatment connected “efforts to escaped the state from left-wing extremism (LWE)”, Shiv Sena subordinate Shrikant Shinde said nether BJP rule, the "red corridor" has shrunk importantly and has been replaced by a maturation corridor.
“...had the earlier governments timely intervened, the concern would person been different...because the authorities was helpless. A deficiency of governmental volition to combat Naxalism and argumentation paralysis were your (Congress) shortcomings...efforts were connected to weaken the state from inside; overseas conspiracies were working, and Congress compromised with nationalist information erstwhile it was successful power,” helium said.
Citing data, Mr. Shinde claimed that past year, 317 Maoists were killed, 862 were arrested, and 1,900 of them surrendered.
“In 2024 and 25, astatine slightest 28 Naxal leaders were killed...including six members of the cardinal committee. In 2026 truthful far, 630 cadres person shunned the way of unit and these statistic amusement that we person covered the region from slug to ballot,” helium said.
TDP MP Byreddy Shabari told the House that she mislaid her household to left-wing extremism (LWE). “There were highest fig of Naxal attacks during the Congress rule, but acknowledgment to the argumentation of PM Narendra Modi and relentless efforts by Home Minister Amit Shah that Naxalism is present connected its mode out,” she said.
Saptagiri Ulaka of Congress deed back, saying that the UPA authorities had launched Operation Green Hunt and had created the Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) to woody with Maoist threat.
The Congress mislaid its full apical enactment successful Chhattisgarh owed to Naxalism, and the enactment has been a unfortunate of LWE, Mr. Ulaka said, adding that the UPA authorities laid adjacent accent connected payment and information and believed that bullets unsocial cannot halt Maoism.
Participating successful the debate, Sambit Patra of the BJP said the main quality betwixt the NDA and the UPA authorities was the attack successful dealing with a threat. He claimed that the Modi authorities has clarity and resoluteness portion the UPA suffered from “confusion and collaboration”.
Mr. Patra claimed that an intelligence adjacent to the Congress had described Naxals arsenic “Gandhians with guns”. He alleged that the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC) had “urban Naxals” arsenic its members.
Referring to a reported affidavit filed by the past UPA authorities successful court, helium claimed that the Home Ministry had past admitted that determination was a vacuum successful improvement and security, which had led to a emergence successful Maoism.
He claimed that the UPA authorities tried to mainstream Maoist panic alternatively of curbing it.
Trinamool Congress person Mahua Moitra wondered wherefore the House was having a treatment connected Maoism erstwhile a overmuch worse situation successful West Asia was straight affecting the country.
She said portion the authorities wants to pat its ain back, radical were suffering owed to a shortage of LPG and substance and skyrocketing airfares.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah had announced that Maoist menace would beryllium wholly eliminated by March 31, 2026.
A caller valuation of Maoist violence-affected regions has brought down the fig of LWE-hit districts successful the state to 7 from 8 successful the December 2025 review.
The Union authorities precocious reviewed the ‘National Policy and Action Plan to code LWE’ crossed 38 districts successful 9 States, comprising Jharkhand, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Telangana and West Bengal.
