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Chhattisgarh: BJP worker shot dead in Naxal-affected Chowki district

A BJP worker was shot dead by unidentified assailants in a remote village in Naxal-affected Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki district of Chhattisgarh on Friday, police said. The incident took place around 7:30 pm in Sarkheda village under Aundhi police station limits when victim Birju Taram was out walking, said district Superintendent of Police Ratna Singh. Asked whether Naxalites were involved in the incident, she said it was too early to come to a conclusion and a probe is underway. As per eyewitnesses, Taram, who was in his early sixties, was accosted by two-three people who fired at him, leaving him dead on the spot, Singh said. Mohla-Manpur is among the twenty constituencies which will go to polls in the first phase of two-phase assembly elections on November 7. State BJP president Arun Sao termed the incident as a targeted killing". His party workers will not be scared by such incidents and they will oust the Congress from power, he said. The murder of BJP worker Birju Taram i

Naxal incidents down by 52% in Chhattisgarh in last 5 years: Govt

The incidents of Left Wing Extremism (LWE) have declined by 52 per cent in Chhattisgarh in the last five years and 589 villages have been freed from clutches of the menace, the state government said on Monday. The Chhattisgarh government's statement came a day ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Jagdalpur, the headquarters of Bastar district, one of the seven districts in the Naxal-affected Bastar division. The release said the state government under the leadership of Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has been working with the idea of 'Gadhbo Nava Chhattisgarh' (creating a new Chhattisgarh) and marching ahead with a three-pronged strategy of trust, security and development. The basic policing of the state has succeeded in winning the public's trust and the state government's zero tolerance policy has resulted in curbing incidents of crime, it said. There has been a 52 per cent decline in incidents of Naxal violence from 2018 to 2022, the release said. As many as 314 schoo

Security to all parties in Naxal-affected areas, says CM Bhupesh Baghel

Chhattisgarh Assembly elections: Last week, the Bharatiya Janata Party had sent a letter to the state's Director General of Police, requesting safety for its 'parivartan yatra'

Political events of all parties to get security in Naxal areas: C'garh CM

A day after the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party sought protection for its Parivartan Yatra, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Saturday said that all political events will get full security in the Naxal-affected areas of the state ahead of elections. The BJP on Friday submitted a letter to the state's Director General of Police seeking protection for its Yatra which is scheduled to start from the Naxal-affected Dantewada on September 12. It did not have faith in the Congress government in the state, it said, claiming that BJP leaders were being targeted and killed in the Bastar region. Assembly elections are due in the state by the year-end. Asked about it on the sidelines of an event here, Baghel said, Complete security will be provided to all political parties. We have lost our leaders in Jhiram Ghati in 2013. "During the recent meeting of the unified command (of security forces), we have clearly directed that all the political programmes should be provided full ...

Chhattisgarh: Two Naxalites killed in encounter with police in Sukma

Two Naxalites, including a woman, were killed in an encounter with police in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district on Monday morning, an official said. A cache of explosives and an automatic weapon were recovered from the encounter site, he said. The gunfight took place in a forest near Danteshpuram village under Bheji police station limits when a team of District Reserve Guard (DRG) was out on an anti-Naxal operation, Sukma Superintendent of Police Sunil Sharma told PTI. The Naxalites opened fire on the DRG's patrolling team following which the gun-battle broke out, he said. After guns fell silent, bodies of two Naxalites were recovered from the spot, the official said. They were identified as Madkam Erra, who was active as commander of Golapalli Local Organisation Squad (LOS), and Madkam Bhime, deputy commander of the same squad, he said. Erra and Bhime were carrying rewards of Rs 8 lakh and Rs 3 lakh respectively on their heads, the official said. Search operation was underway in nea

Chhattisgarh BJP leader accuses Cong of being involved in naxal incidents

Over 30 people including senior leaders of the Chhattisgarh Congress were killed in the Jhiram Ghati Naxal attack in 2013

Budget session: Naxal violence, renewable energy capacity, and more

The violence by Naxals has come down by 77 per cent in over a decade while casualties of the security forces and civilians dropped by 90 per cent, Lok Sabha was informed

Chhattisgarh: Vehicle, construction machinery torched by Naxals in Kanker

A vehicle, mixer truck and a JCB, which were being used for construction of a road, were set ablaze allegedly by Naxals in Kanker district of Chhattisgarh, the police informed on Sunday

Gunfight erupts between security forces, Naxals on outskirts of Ranchi

A gunfight took place between Naxals and security forces on the outskirts of Ranchi city, police said. Acting on a tip-off that five members of the banned Tritiya Sammelan Prastuti Committee (TSPC) outfit were in a forest in Budmu area, a search operation was launched around 3.30 pm on Thursday, they said. Soon, a gunfight broke out between the Naxals and the forces, they added. "However, the extremists escaped taking advantage of the dense forest," Superintendent of Police (Ranchi-Rural) Naushad Alam told PTI. A rifle and some cartridges were seized from the area, he said. Alam said they have received information that some of the extremists were injured in the gunfight. "We are verifying it," he said.

Rice over riots in Chhattisgarh: The paddy trade in Red hotbed

Over 2,000 farmers from the interior areas of the worst Maoist-infested Narayanpur district will be selling paddy for the first time at MSP at the procurement centres

Incidents of Naxal violence reduced by 55% over 8 years: MHA report

The Union Home Ministry has said resolute implementation of the national policy and action plan led to a 55 per cent reduction in violent incidents perpetrated by the Naxals and 63 per cent in deaths over a period of eight years. According to the annual report 2021-22 of the Ministry of Home Affairs, there has been an overall 55 per cent reduction in violent incidents (from 1,136 to 509) and 63 per cent reduction (397 to 147) in Left Wing Extremism (LWE) related deaths in 2021 as compared to 2013. In comparison to 2020, the year 2021 saw a decline of 24 per cent (665 to 509) in incidents of violence and 20 per cent (183 to 147) in the resultant deaths, the report said. "Resolute implementation of the national policy and action plan by the government has resulted in unprecedented improvement in the Left Wing Extremism scenario across the country," the report said. The last seven years have seen a significant decline in LWE violence as well as its geographical spread. The declining

Gujarat won't allow 'Urban Naxals' to ruin life of state's youth: PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said 'Urban Naxals' were trying to gain entry into Gujarat by changing their appearance, but the state will not allow them to destroy the lives of youth. The PM was speaking after laying the foundation stone of the country's first bulk drug park in Gujarat's Bharuch district. "Urban Naxals are trying to enter the state with new appearances. They have changed their costumes. They are misleading our innocent and energetic youth into following them," Modi said in a veiled attack on the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) which is trying to make inroads into Gujarat ahead of the state Assembly polls due later this year. The Urban Naxals are setting foot from above. We won't let them destroy our young generation. We should warn our children against the Urban Naxals who have taken up the task of destroying the country. They are agents of foreign powers. Gujarat will not bow down its head against them, Gujarat will destroy them," the PM said. Modi also said when h

Top Naxalite Usha Rani alias Bhanu Didi surrenders before Telangana police

Top Naxalite Aluri Usha Rani alias Vijayakka alias Pochakka alias Bhanu Didi surrendered before the state police

Gadchiroli encounter: Naxals burn road roller in MP, announce bandh

Naxalites burnt a road roller engaged in construction work in Madhya Pradesh's Balaghat district and left behind pamphlets calling for a bandh in MP, Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh on December 10

Goods train derails as Naxals uproot railway track in Dantewada

Eighteen wagons and three locomotives of a goods train derailed on the Kirandul-Visakhapatnam railway section in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district

Rebel leader Milind Teltumbde, 25 other Maoists 'killed in encounter'

Top Maoist leader Milind Teltumbde was among the 26 Naxals killed in an encounter with police in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district

Maha: Four Naxals killed in encounter in Gadchiroli forest, says police

The gun battle happened this morning when a police team was conducting a search operation

Telangana CM in Delhi to attend meeting of CMs of naxal-hit states

Rao is scheduled to meet Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Shekhawat on Saturday and discuss river water projects, according to the Chief Minister's Office.

Transfer terminally-ill Gadchiroli blast accused from prison to hospice: HC

The Court directed the state to transfer alleged Maoist leader Nirmala Uppuganti from prison to a hospice for palliative care on account of her terminal cancer.

14 land mines planted by Naxals at Jharkhand's Dalma mountain disposed

Jamshedpur Police on Saturday disposed off 14 land mines planted by the Naxals at Jharkhand's Dalma mountain.