TIL Desk/National/Ranchi/ Calling naxals anti-poor, Home Minister Rajnath Singh has said that the government wants to end leftwing extremism by taking forward development works, and praised Jharkhand government for its efforts to curb naxalism. Singh held a high-level meeting on leftwing extremism in Ranchi with Chief Minister Raghubar Das and senior officials.
“I appreciate the work done under the leadership of Raghubar Das. I realised in today’s meeting, along with the chief minister all officers showed a pledge to end leftwing extremism. This pledge will definitely be fulfilled, I am confident,” the home minister said.
Singh said the government did not want to end naxalism through violence, but the security forces have to take action to defend themselves when attacked. “We want to deal with Maoist extremists by moving forward development works,” he said. The problem is naxals put hurdles, he said. “I would like to say they are anti-poor,” Singh, flanked by Das, said at a press conference.
He said the naxals want the poor to remain poor, deprived to stay deprived and backward areas to remain backward. Singh said the Jharkhand government has effectively worked on all these fronts. He said whatever assistance the state has sought from the Centre has been taken cognisance of and “we will try to sort it out”.
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