Alliance Home Minister Amit Shah said on Wednesday that security forces have made historic breakthroughs in their determination to make the country free of Naxal. Shah wrote on Hindi X: “I promise my compatriots again that India will definitely have no Naxal by March 31, 2026.”
“The historic breakthrough was achieved in the determination of #NaxalFreebharat, where security forces killed 31 notorious naxalites on the Karregutta hill on the Chhattisgarh-Telangana border in the largest operation against Namasism ever,” he said.
Karregutta Hills is the unified headquarters of large Naxal organizations such as No. 1, Battalion of the People’s Liberation Guerrillas (PLGA), Dandakaranya Special Regional Commission (DKSZC), Telangana State Commission (TSC) and Central Regional Commission (CRC), and Naxal training, strategies and weapons, which are also developed in it.
At the press conference, CRPF Director General GP Singh and Chhattisgarh Police Director General (DGP) Arun Dev Gautam said that during the 21-day operation that began on April 21, the troops had recovered the bodies of 31 Maoists, of which 28 were identified.
“The eliminated Naxals identified so far carried a reward of Rs 1.72 crore on their heads. The forces have also seized a massive haul of weapons and destroyed four technical units of Naxals that used to manufacture weapons and IEDs,” Vivekanand, Additional DG (Anti-Naxal operations) of Chhattisgarh Police, said.During this cruel 21-day campaign, a total of 18 personnel from COBRA, STF and DRG were injured in various IED explosions. The searches on the hills resulted in 450 IEDs, 818 BGL shells, 899 bundles of ropes, detonators and a large amount of explosives. They added that in the past, they used BGL shells to carry out serious attacks on CRPF camps. According to Bastar police, the troops have destroyed four Naxal factories that produce weapons.
CRPF DG Singh said security forces are conducting “ruthless and ruthless” operations to ensure that Namasism is eliminated by March 31, 2026. Singh said anti-Naxal operations that began in 2014 have been intensified and have become more focused since 2019, with the Central Military Forces shouldering with the National Police to resist Naxalism since 2019.
