After yrs of violence, two Bastar districts free of LWE menace
Hindustan Times Uttarakhand|December 15, 2024
When Chhattisgarh chief minister Vishnu Deo Sai met Union home minister Amit Shah last week, he had more than an invitation for the closing ceremony of Bastar Olympics.
Prawesh Lama
After yrs of violence, two Bastar districts free of LWE menace

NEW DELHI: Sai told the home minister, according to top government officials, that two out of the seven districts in the Maoist-infested Bastar division—the Bastar district that houses the district headquarters of Jagdalpur, and Kondagaon, which houses headquarters of the Kondagaon district—are finally free from the scourge of Left-wing extremism (LWE), roughly five decades after they were first put on the infamous list.

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