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India Is 'Free' of Maoist Insurgency: Interior Minister
A decade-long campaign reduced Maoist fighters from 20,000 to near zero with a 90% drop in attacks and deaths since 2010, officials said.
- On Monday, Home Minister Amit Shah declared India free of the Maoist insurgency, fulfilling a long-standing deadline to defeat the decades-long rebellion that once threatened large swaths of the country.
- The Maoist-inspired insurgency began nearly six decades ago in the Himalayan foothills and controlled nearly a third of the country with an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 fighters at its peak in the mid-2000s.
- In 2025, security forces killed 364 insurgents, arrested 1,022, and saw 2,337 surrender; annual Maoist attacks fell from more than 1,900 to roughly 200 last year, according to parliamentary statistics.
- Chhattisgarh Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Sharma confirmed Bastar is entirely free of insurgents, stating the movement "no longer has any organisational format" after all armed militants surrendered or died.
- More than 12,000 people have died in the conflict since 1967, which rebels claimed was a fight for marginalized indigenous people in resource-rich forest regions; the government credited an all-agency approach.
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The Indian government had set 31 March 2026 the end of this insurrection, which had been active for nearly six decades. At its peak in the mid-2000s, it controlled almost one third of the country.
India is 'free' of Maoist insurgency: interior minister
NEW DELHI: India on Monday (Mar 30) declared the country free of the Maoist insurgency, fulfilling a long-standing deadline to defeat the decades-long rebellion.Home Minster Amit Shah told parliament India was "free" of the rebels, known as Naxals."I can say it openly, that we have become Naxal-free
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Ministers in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday welcomed Union Home Minister Amit Shah's announcement that India has virtually become Maoist-free, stating that the central and state-level leadership structures of the insurgent movement have been almost entirely dismantled just ahead of the government's self-imposed deadline of March 31.
"Free" of the rebels: India declares victory over Maoist insurgency
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