The menace of Left Wing Extremism (LWE), commonly termed as Naxalism and Maoist insurgency, has been categorised as the single biggest challenge to India’s internal security by the Prime Minister.
Chair: A K Doval
Discussants: J N Roy and G D Bakshi
Chair: Kalyan K Mitra
Discussants: J N Roy and G D Bakshi
Chair: Arun Bhagat
Discussants: S Y Thapliyal and Bibhu Prasad Routray
Rebels of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) have been repeatedly targeting infrastructure, which are soft targets.
Chair: Ved Marwah
Discussants: G. D. Bakshi and K. M. Madhusudhanan
Chair: G. D Bakshi
Discussants: D. K. Karthikeyan and J. N. Roy
No other recent visit to India has been so eagerly awaited as that of Pushpa Kumar Dahal, alias Prachanda, the Maoist revolutionary turned democrat and Prime Minister of ‘New Nepal’.
“[China] feels that the Himalayas alone in this nuclear age are not enough to guarantee its national security, especially in view of Tibet’s strategic location.
The Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-M), a former rebel group, emerged as the largest political party with 220 seats in the April 10 Constituent Assembly (CA) elections.