Left Wing Extremism will be uprooted in next 2 years: Shah

“With the determination of PM Modi and the cooperation of all the states affected by LWE, major successes have been achieved against it in 2022 and 2023,” he said, adding that in the last nine years, the Centre has increased the Security Related Expenditure (SRE) by more than double in comparison to the earlier period.

The review meeting was attended by the chief ministers of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Jharkhand. Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis also attended the meeting where Odisha, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh were represented by state ministers.

Shah said that the vacuum areas have been shrinking since 2019, and they have established 195 new camps of CAPFs while 44 more new camps will be established. Shah said the lowest level of violence and deaths  in the last four decades have been recorded in 2022. “There has been a decline of more than 52% in LWE related violence, 69 % in deaths, 72%  in security forces’ deaths and 68%  in civilian deaths between 2014 and 2023 compared to the period from 2005 to 2014,” he said.