The 5th edition of the Abujhmad Peace Half Maratho held in Narayanpur district today. Surrendered Naxal cadets and thousands of runners participate in it.
One of the newlyweds shared his past with Naxalism, saying, "I was working with the Maoist organisation from 2006 to 2024. I surrendered in 2025... We are getting married under the Chief Minister's Kanya Vivah Yojana. We are also benefiting from the government's policies."
A joint team of the District Reserve Guard (DRG) and Border Security Force (BSF) recovered explosives planted by Naxalites during a search operation in the Kanker-Narayanpur border area under the Chhotebethia police station limits.
In a historic moment, 47 villages across the districts of Bijapur, Narayanpur and Sukma--where national festivals could never be celebrated earlier--observed Republic Day for the first time on January 26. The occasion marks a significant milestone in the democratic restoration of Bastar.<
Dinesh Pandey, Naxal leader and Divisional Committee Member (DVC) of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), Kutul Area Committee, was also among the cadre who laid down his arms and returned to the mainstream.
As Naxals have started to surrender across the state of Chhattisgarh, former Naxal Gandhi Tate, also known as Kamlesh or Arab, urged the remaining Naxals to surrender, saying that they are nowhere close to their aim.
Superintendent of Police (SP), Narayanpur Robinsons Guria said that about 80 per cent of Naxalites operating in the Abujhmarh region of Chhattisgarh's Narayanpur district have surrendered to security forces.
In an initiative to rehabilitate and reintegrate surrendered Naxals into mainstream society, the Livelihood College in Chhattisgarh's Narayanpur district has become a model of transformation, combining skill training with discipline, routine, and personal development.
IG Bastar P Sundarraj on Tuesday said that they were hopeful to fulfil their goal to make Chhattisgarh naxal-free by March 31, 2026, and in the last 20 months, more than 2200 naxals joined the mainstream.
In a major milestone towards achieving the Modi government's vision of a "Naxal-free Bharat," the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Wednesday said that the number of districts classified as "most affected" by Left Wing Extremism (LWE) has reduced to just three from six.
In a post on the X platform, Amit Shah said, "Today, our security forces have achieved another major victory against the Naxalites. In the Abujhmad region of Narayanpur along the Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh border, our forces eliminated two Central Committee Member Naxal leaders - Kadari Satyan