India effectively free of Maoist violence, says Amit Shah
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday told the Lok Sabha that India has effectively become free of Maoist violence.
He said the Union government had set March 31 as the deadline to eliminate Maoism and claimed that the target had been achieved.
Shah added that he would inform the country formally after reviewing the situation.
The home minister said that between 2024 and March, 706 Maoists were killed in gunfights. During this period, 2,218 cadres were arrested and 4,839 surrendered, he added.
Shah also claimed that the central leadership, including politburo members, had been wiped out in Telangana, Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh.
In the course of the Union government’s anti-Maoist offensive in 2025, key Maoist leaders like Ganesh Uike and Madvi Hidma have been killed, while others like Vikas Nagpure, alias Anant, and Mallojula Venugopal Rao, alias Bhupathi, have surrendered.
A report by Malini Subramaniam for Scroll on Hidma’s killing noted that in the Andhra Pradesh village closest to where he was killed, no one heard gunfire.
She had earlier reported that while many of those killed in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region in 2024 were declared by the police to be reward-carrying Maoists, several families dispute the claim. The families claim that the persons killed were civilians.
Civil liberties groups and Opposition parties have also questioned some of these killings, alleging that they constitute “fake encounters”.
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