Before Chhattisgarh could have landed into an ocean of sorrow ahead of Lok Sabha elections, alert and daring security personnel in the state's insurgency-hit Kanker district killed 29 naxals in an encounter before they could execute a major incident as a part of their Tactical Counter Offens
"All the Naxalites killed in the operation (in Kanker) were hardcore Naxals. A huge amount of arms and ammunition have been recovered from them. Their post-mortem is going on; it may take time.The government is open for talks and discussion, as we want peace in Bastar at any cost," he told A
A day after 29 Naxalites were killed in a major encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh, Bastar Inspector General of Police (IG) P Sundarraj said on Wednesday that 71 naxals have been gunned down till date since January, and the fight against naxals is at the "deciding step."
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai lauded the DRG and BSF personnel for their successful operation after 29 Naxalites were killed in an encounter with security forces in Kanker district on Tuesday and termed it a "big achievement."
A total of 29 Naxals were killed and three security personnel sustained injuries in an encounter that broke out in Chhattisgarh's Kanker, which lies in the Bastar region, officials said.
Abujhmad, a dense, almost impenetrable forest region whose name stands for "unknown hills", holding within it the last of the Maoist bastions in the country, includes around 200 villages.
A total of 18 Naxals were killed and three security personnel sustained injuries in an encounter that broke out in Chhattisgarh's Kanker, which lies in the Bastar region, police said.
Noting that unemployment and rising prices were the real issues in the Lok Sabha polls, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said that the polls were also for saving the constitution and democracy in the country "which were under continuous attack from the BJP and the RSS".
Bastar Lok Sabha constituency in Chhattisgarh, afflicted by Naxal influence, will go to the polls in the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections on April 19.
Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in the country, Congress leader Sachin Pilot on Saturday lashed out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) saying that their leaders are not discussing what they did in ten years.
After holding election rallies in Chhattisgarh's Bastar and Chandrapur in Maharashtra, in addition to taking out a colourful roadshow down South, in Tamil Nadu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Nagpur on Wednesday for an election rally in the Ramtek constituency in support of the S