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Prime Minister Modi comprehensively defeated the far left in India. It can be done. Naxalites drew their inspiration from Maoism and terrorized India for decades. Now these communists have formally surrendered. https://t.co/knucK2u1jh https://t.co/iCHMOaMiCO Fifteen years ago the far left still controlled almost one third of India. The Modi government fixed the issue by using force against actual terrorists while addressing the underlying discontent with economic development. It worked. https://t.co/z5RI22rap9 https://t.co/DbRgWMDgc4 A big part of the strategy was building infrastructure, not just dealing with terrorists. You need carrot and stick. And patience and commitment, as it took 15 years. https://t.co/YHlouTvwYi With the surrender of the communist insurgency, India is arguably more internally unified than it’s ever been before in history. As these numbers drop to zero, districts open up for economic development. https://t.co/AfqStI7tAc The Modi effect. Communism goes to zero. Capitalism goes to infinity. Ending the Maoist insurgency while delivering the world’s fastest growing economy. https://t.co/neRYmc85RB The Indian equivalent of Homeland Security was actually focused on homeland security. They focused on the communist ideology (Naxalism) as that was the enemy. They set a target and attained the far left’s surrender ahead of schedule. https://t.co/nhCtbcIB9v India’s state capacity has been growing. They landed on the dark side of the moon, counted half a billion votes in one day, and ended the reign of the far left.

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The significance of this is impossible to overstate. At its peak, the “Red Corridor” was 3% of India’s landmass and affected close to 10% of India’s population. Between 2004 and 2010 alone, it claimed over 10,000 lives, an overwhelming majority of it, innocent civilians. This was a State within the State, an ISIS village if you will. Beheadings, strangulations, rapes, all part of the fare. All after summary trials at kangaroo courts, if any at all. The biggest myth their wildly successful PR perpetuated was that they only targeted the administration. In reality, they didn’t hesitate hitting schools, hospitals, trains, entire villages. Seen Blood Diamond? Naxal demons recruited kids as young as 12 as child soldiers. These kids were informants, fighters, cannon fodders. Embarrassingly, this blemish had increasingly become a part of the Indian reality successive governments failed to erase even with the full might of the State at their disposal. States like Chhattishgarh had grown to acquire one overarching identity they had zero hopes of getting rid of. Like him or not, Amit Shah has accomplished the hopelessly impossible.
Schandillia ↗

@balajis Modi took office in 2014. https://t.co/hwDA9p10oU
thishivam ↗

BIG BREAKING: Maoists announce ceasefire and giving up arms. Statement issued from CPI Maoists Spokesperson Abhay. Home Minister Amit Shah had earlier announced March 2026 as deadline for security forces to completely end Maoists from Indian soil. Big win for security forces.
AdityaRajKaul ↗

The Indian state keeps getting better at winning. Note: Ignore the boundary distortions in Wiki’s India maps, and focus on the wipeout of Naxal terror - a project now almost fully complete. https://t.co/1Rhi1c5x7i
harshmadhusudan ↗

Till as recently as 2010, some 160 districts were impacted by these Naxalites who ran extortion rackets and parallel governments. West Bengal has never recovered from the mayhem they created in the 1960s and early 1970s. Hopefully, the organised violence will now end but their "intellectual" cousins will continue to poison young minds in new ways unless they are constantly exposed. There will always be foreign "NGOs" and "think-tanks" willing to finance useful idiots.
sanjeevsanyal ↗

Today, the Republic of India has shattered the Hammer & the Sickle. Nearly a decade back, a red, festering wound streaked across nearly 1/3 of India, terrorizing the men of those lands. Now, it has been wiped clean by the might of the Republic under a shining saffron sun. https://t.co/hcaWiX59my
TheEmissaryCo ↗

India: Maoists announce ceasefire and surrender of all weapons.
TheLegateIN ↗

In 2010 they controlled almost 1/3rd of India This surrender marks the 2nd big insurgency this government has defeated after Kashmir, all in the space of 10 years. Of course sporadic attacks will continue as with the tail end of all insurgencies, but the insurgency is over.
Iyervval ↗