In a separate incident, Naxals allegedly killed a 45-year-old police informer and torched three vehicles engaged in road construction work in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur.
Congress attacks Home Minister Amit Shah for continuing to address election campaigns
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Monday said jawans cannot be fodder to be martyred at will” and claimed that the anti-naxal operations in Chhattisgarh were either poorly designed or incompetently executed.
Last Saturday, security forces, who were involved in anti-naxal combing operations in Chhattisgarh, came under heavy attack from the naxals that resulted in the death of 22 security personnel and injured, at least, another 30 of them. No Indian jawan should face an enemy without body armour in the 21st century. It needs to be made available to every soldier, Mr Gandhi he said in a tweet.
Amit Shah cuts short campaign, returns to Delhi after Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday spoke to Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and took stock of the situation following the killing of five security personnel in an encounter with Naxals in the state, officials said.
By ANI| Posted by Nikita Venkatesh | Published: 4th April 2021 2:56 pm IST Photo: Union Home Minister Amit Shah
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah has cut short his schedule on the last day of campaigning for the final phase of the Assam Assembly elections and returned to the national capital in view of Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur Naxal attack, informed Union Minister and BJP’s co-in charge for Assam polls, Jitendra Singh on Sunday.