It is fine to talk of a ruthless approach when you are dealing with terrorists. However, when you are dealing with your own people, strictness must be tempered with empathy.
During my deputation with the CRPF in 2010, I witnessed firsthand India’s prolonged conflict with Left-Wing Extremists under Operation Green Hunt. The tide has definitively turned now.
On 14 September 2009, then-home minister P Chidambaram spoke to senior police chiefs in New Delhi, outlining internal security threats such as Naxalism and insurgencies.
The operation in Chhattisgarh, hailed as the most successful anti-Naxal action in recent times, dealt a significant blow to the top Maoist leadership, striking at the very spine of the Naxalite movement.
Chhattisgarh CM visited Galgam village of Bijapur & lauded forces for successful Karregutta hills op, highlighting his govt's two-pronged approach to end Naxal threat.
The operation, which began on 21 April and ended on 11 May, saw at least 21 encounters with suspected Maoists, resulting in deaths of 31. 18 security personnel also injured.
1 DRG jawan was also killed in the operation in Bijapur. Union Home Minister Amit Shah has set a deadline of March 2026 to eradicate Maoism from the country.
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If this step even partially achieves its desired results, there will be so much dislocation in the country’s economic structure as to prove a national calamity, advocate AG Mulgaokar wrote in 1969.
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No empathy or sympathy for either Maoists or urban Naxals.
Our misplaced empathy/sympathy got us into this situation in the first place. The same mistake must not be repeated.
We are winning against the Maoists. But we also need to win against the urban Naxals. Traitors and anti-socials like Nivedita Menon and Apoorvanand are abusing our universities and colleges as recruitment centres for all kinds of anti-national activities.
Mr. Singh, the empathy that you and others had for the Maoists is the reason why terrorism flourished in central India.
Now that empathy is gone, we are seeing positive results.
No empathy or sympathy for either Maoists or urban Naxals.
Our misplaced empathy/sympathy got us into this situation in the first place. The same mistake must not be repeated.
We are winning against the Maoists. But we also need to win against the urban Naxals. Traitors and anti-socials like Nivedita Menon and Apoorvanand are abusing our universities and colleges as recruitment centres for all kinds of anti-national activities.
Mr. Singh, the empathy that you and others had for the Maoists is the reason why terrorism flourished in central India.
Now that empathy is gone, we are seeing positive results.