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No air power in offensive against Naxals: Pillai

The Centre ruled out use of air power in the fight against Naxalites.

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The Centre on Tuesday ruled out use of air power in the fight against Naxalites and admitted obviously some element of failure in the operations led to the killing of 75 security personnel in Chhattisgarh on Tuesday.

“I don’t think we need to use air power at the moment (in the anti-naxal operation). We can manage with what we have.

Our strategy is unfolding and we should be able to manage without air power,” Home Secretary Gopal K Pillai told reporters here.

However,he made it clear that the air power will be used only for evacuation and for mobility of troops.

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