Opinion | End Of Naxalism: How Amit Shah Dismantled China’s Ideological Export

What India has accomplished is not simply the suppression of a domestic insurgency. It is the refutation of a model

On March 30, 2026, a day before the government’s own deadline, Union Home Minister Amit Shah stood in the Lok Sabha and declared that India had become, in all but formal terms, Naxal-free. The Politburo of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) had been dismantled. Twelve of its central committee leaders had been killed in operations and talks were underway with the sole remaining absconding figure.

A 27-member state committee in one key affected state had been effectively wiped out, eleven killed, with negotiations begun with others. The armed cadre count, which had stood at over 2,000 as recently as 2024, had collapsed to roughly 220 by early 2026. In Odisha, once a significant theatre of Maoist violence, the number of active cadres had reportedly fallen to as low as fifteen.

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The numbers are extraordinary. But to understand what India has actually achieved, one must return to a single moment in the summer of 1967.

Spring Thunder Over India

The date was May 25, 1967. In Naxalbari, a small settlement tucked into West Bengal’s Terai flatlands, a group of Santhal tribal peasants clashed with police over a land dispute that, on its face, looked like dozens of others across rural India. It wasn’t. Charu Mazumdar and Kanu Sanyal, two ideologues already primed for revolutionary action, seized on it immediately. They declared it the first shot of an Indian insurrection built consciously on the Maoist template.

Six weeks later, on July 5, 1967, the People’s Daily obliged them with the endorsement they wanted. The Chinese Communist Party’s........

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