India has launched an entire offensive against the last remaining members of the far-left Maoist-inspired fighting movement known as the Naxalite rebellion.
Nambala Keshav Rao, alias Basavaraju, was one of 27 rebels killed by security forces in Chhattisgarh, according to Home Affairs Minister Amit Shah, on Wednesday.
Rao was referred to as the “topmost leader and the backbone” of the Naxal movement and the general secretary of the banned Communist Party of India-Maoist group.
He claimed that this was the first time India’s [Bharat’s] battle against Naxalism had been neutralized by our forces in three decades.
For this significant advance, I applaud our brave security forces and organizations.
In wider follow-up operations, 54 people were detained, according to Shah, and 84 Naxalites were detained in Chhattisgarh, Telangana, and Maharashtra.
According to senior state police official Vivekanand Sinha, a gun battle broke out after intelligence reports showed “top Maoist leaders” were present in the area.
According to local police official P Sundarraj, a police commando also perished in the conflict.
The District Reserve Guard special police force, according to Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai, was the main organization responsible for carrying out the operations.
I applaud their bravery,” she said. We’ve made a surrender appeal to Maoists. There is no need to repeat it, Sai said, according to a statement released by The Times of India.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised the government’s “committed to eliminating the menace of Maoism and ensuring a life of peace and progress” and said he was proud of his team’s accomplishments.
The Communist Party of India’s General Secretary, Doraisamy Raja, criticized the cold-blooded killing of a senior Maoist leader and several Adivasis in Chhattisgarh. Another instance of extrajudicial activity being carried out under the guise of “counterinsurgency operations” is presented here.
CPI requests an impartial judicial investigation into this incident and Operation Kagar as a whole. In a post on X, he continued, “The people of Chhattisgarh and India as a whole deserve to know the truth.”
Naxalbari, a village in the Himalayas where it started nearly six decades ago, is the name of the Maoist rebel movement.
Since a few villagers revolted against their feudal lords there in 1967, there have been more than 12, 000 deaths of rebels, soldiers, and civilians.
The rebellion had between 15 and 20 000 fighters and a teetering population at its height in the middle of the 2000s.
At least 400 rebels have been killed by Indian soldiers since last year, according to government data.
In what the government called the “biggest operation against naxalism” in a region along the border of Chhattisgarh and Telangana, Indian security forces claimed last week that they had killed 31 Maoist rebels.
In Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, Indian troops recently killed 11 people identified as rebels.
In March, security forces killed 30 more fighters than they did in February.
If the government withdrew security forces and put an end to the ongoing offensive, the Maoists said they were ready for dialogue.
The Maoists’ top body stated in a statement that “our party is always ready for peace talks” in the interests of the people.
Source: Aljazeera
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