Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated that the country’s decades-long Maoist insurgency is nearing its end. In his address to the nation on India’s 79th Independence Day, Modi said Maoist violence was “breathing its last” after years of security operations against the insurgency.
Maoist Movement
The Naxalite movement, inspired by Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong, began in 1967 with an uprising in the village of Naxalbari in eastern India, and grew into a decades-long armed rebellion championing the rights of landless farmers, the rural poor and Indigenous communities. Modi said the Maoist movement had “destroyed the future” of generations of young people and credited his government’s security and development policies with sharply reducing Maoist violence since taking office in 2014.
Modi also warned that the country now faced a new battle against what he called “dimagi Naxals,” or people who align with the movement’s ideology. He said these individuals “have to be identified and isolated” as they “want to drag the society on the wrong path.”
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