In fight against Naxals, waging a losing battle

Govt's action plan counts on aggressive campaign and deployment of heavy forces to uproot Naxals

On  May 10, two days after Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh announced a major aggressive operation against Naxals, an IL-76 aircraft of the Indian Air Force landed in Raipur  with men and machines.
 
Within an hour, to the surprise of security agencies, the photograph of  machines being unloaded from the aircraft went viral on the social media. While scribes ran after the story, television channels were flashing “breaking news”, beaming special operation against Naxals as soon as the equipment  had reached Chhattisgarh — the country’s worst Left-wing extremism affected state.
 
The story hogging the headlines was not just