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Govt is keen to rehabilitate rebels... but will reply to bullets with bullets
Hindustan Times Navi Mumbai
|February 11, 2025
A day after 31 Maoists were killed in a gunfight, the single largest casualty count in a single anti-Maoist op, Chhattisgarh CM Vishnu Deo Sai spoke to HT about the ongoing operations, the Centre's deadline to end Left-Wing Extremism (LWE) and allegations of fake encounter killings.
NEW DELHI: Sai urged Maoists to lay down arms, promised to rehabilitate them, but said the reply for a bullet will be a bullet. Edited excerpts:
The Centre has set a deadline of March 31, 2026 to eliminate Naxalism. What is the road map for this?
It has been 13 months since we came to power in the state. We took oath on December 13, 2023. The following month, Union home minister Amit Shah came to Chhattisgarh. In one of the meetings, the deadline to eliminate LWE from the country by March 2026 was set.
This story is from the February 11, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Navi Mumbai.
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