Amit Shah to hold anti-naxal review meet on Aug 24

Home minister Amit Shah will review anti-Naxal operations and the progress of developmental works in Red corridors in seven Left Wing Extremism-affected states this week.

According to highly-placed sources, Shah will hold the review meetings in Naya Raipur, the administrative capital of Chhattisgarh, on August 24 with chief secretaries and director generals of police of Maoist-affected Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Telangana.

In the run-up to November 2023 Assembly elections, BJP had promised that if voted to power, it will end Naxalism within three years by 2026.


According to sources, the central forces have pointed out that during operations in Chhattisgarh, the Naxalites cross the inter-state border and find safety in the neighbouring states.

A senior Chhattisgarh state official, who did not wish to be named, told ET, "The biggest challenge we are facing in anti-Naxal operations is that they run to.other states and find safe abode. A unified strategy needs to be worked out. This is the main purpose of calling a meeting of DGPs of all states neighboring Chhattisgarh."