RAIPUR: In apparent retaliation for the Kanker operation, Maoists murdered a BJP deputy sarpanch in neighbouring Narayanpur district late Tuesday, two days before Bastar constituency votes in the Lok Sabha elections.Pancham Das Manikpuri is the ninth BJP functionary/worker to be murdered by Maoists since Feb last year. Naxals accused him of working for police.The killing…
GADCHIROLI: Splinters flew past Vikas Kumre, of Gardewara village, as multiple IEDs went off at noon along a booby-trapped stretch, just 6km off the Maoist headquarters of Abujmarh. This was during 2019 LS polls.Fast forward to 2024. Kumre considers himself lucky to be alive and witness the bustling electoral process at one of the 11…
RAIPUR: When Prime Minister Narendra Modi was talking about the fulfilment of a 500-year-old dream at Ram Mandir in Ayodhya in a Bastar village on Monday, temple bells were ringing 180km away to celebrate the reopening of a Ram temple in one of the worst Maoist-hit areas of Sukma.Security forces have reopened the temple in…
