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In wake of the deadly Maoist attack on the Congress Parivartan rally in Chhattisgarh,a major offensive against the Maoists has been launched with more than 1,000 security personnel being deployed in the jungles of the Naxal-infested Bastar region.
“Over thousand security men are on a combing operation in the region (Bastar) after the attack on Congress leaders,” Director General of Police Ramniwas said today.
Heavily armed Maoists ambushed a convoy of Congress leaders in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar district on Saturday,killing 27 people including State Congress Chief Nand Kumar Patel,senior leader Mahendra Karma and ex-MLA Uday Mudaliyar besides leaving 36 others injured including former Union Minister V C Shukla.
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DGP Ramniwas said they have received a tip-off about the cadres who orchestrated the attack and assured early action.
“We have got inputs about Naxal leaders who were involved in the attack and efforts are on to nab them,” he said.
On the missing security personnel,the DGP said,”A police jawan Pawan Kindro is missing and search is on for him in the jungles.”
According to police sources,so far security forces have recovered 24 bodies from Jiram valley of Darbha block where attack had taken place.
Meanwhile,a team of NIA (National Investigation Agency) has reached Raipur and begun its probe into the incident.
“The NIA team has reached here and started investigation at its level,” the DGP added.
Govt says ‘intrigued’ by Chhattisgarh attack
In a curious related development,two days after Maoists struck in a big way in Chhattisgarh,the government today said it is “intrigued” by the attack in which almost the entire Congress leadership was wiped out.
“We are intrigued by the attack which has virtually taken the entire leadership of Congress in Chhattisgarh,” an official source said about the strike in which state party chief along with another leader were killed and another leader V C Shukla badly injured.
About the motive of the attack,the source said,”It is too early to jump to any bigger conclusion. There is going to be a judicial review.”
The source observed that the attack was “a horrendous” incident on “a scale not known before”.
27 people,including Chhattisgarh Congress chief Nand Kumar Patel,his son Dinesh and another party leader Mahendra Karma,were killed in the attack in a forest area of Bastar district on Saturday.
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