A FORCE Report

During his visit to Raipur, Chhattisgarh, on August 24, Union home minister Amit Shah chaired a review meeting on Left Wing Extremism (LWE). Also, on his agenda was assessing the coordination between the chief secretaries and director generals of police of Chhattisgarh and the other LWE-affected states; and capacity building of the security forces.

The meeting was attended by chief minister of Chhattisgarh, Vishnudev Sai, deputy chief minister Vijay Sharma, Union minister of state for home affairs Nityanand Rai, Union home secretary Govind Mohan, directors of Intelligence Bureau (IB) and National Investigation Agency (NIA), director generals of CRPF, BSF, SSB and ITBP. Chief secretaries and director generals of police of Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha and Telangana also attended the meeting.

Addressing the meeting, Shah said that the campaign against LWE was at a decisive stage. He reiterated that the government was committed to completely eradicate Naxalism from the country before March 2026. According to him, there was a need to work for ‘two more years with twice the speed and intensity than what was there at the beginning of the campaign against Naxalism, only then this problem can be completely eradicated.’

Crediting Prime Minister Narendra Modi for ‘fighting a successful battle against Left-Wing Extremism with a strategy on all three fronts of development, prosecution and operation,’ Shah said that the problem has now been reduced to a great extent and is li