Though Naxal violence has declined, poll-time violence showed that the problem remains. If the BJP govt strengthened security efforts in its time, the Congress one went in for a mixed approach including development.
In a major breakthrough, a joint team of District Reserve Guard (DRG) and District Force (DF) arrested a Naxal couple carrying a cash reward of their head in Chhattisgarh s insurgency-hit Sukma district following an encounter, a police officer said.
A Doordarshan cameraman and two security personnel were killed and two others injured in an attack by Naxals at Dantewada s Aranpur in Chhattisgarh on Tuesday, according to news agency ANI.