PM Narendra Modi completes 25 years in public life: Know all about fight against Naxalism under his leadership

The Naxal movement began at Naxalbari in 1967 and outlasted every government that followed. For nearly 5 decades Maoist insurgents held a corridor through the middle of India, where the writ of the state did not run. When PM Narendra Modi came to the helm, he decided to tackle the Naxal problem with the weapon of development. So security operations were paired with development work, like laying of roads, bridges, infrastructure development.

New Delhi: PM Narendra Modi’s government is credited with ending Naxalism in India. After coming to power at the Centre in 2014, his government started its fight against Naxalism. The Home Ministry has repeatedly claimed that India has become ‘Naxal free’ or free of ‘Left Wing Extremism’. They said that no district in the country remains........

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