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India's Left-Wing Extremism Endgame
India was declared effectively free of Left-Wing Extremism on 31 March 2026, and the government's August 2026 stock-taking puts the number of LWE-affected districts at zero — down from 126 in 2014 — with the security build-out, road and telecom expansion and surrender package that produced it now set out in full. In September 2026 the Vice-President used a convocation in Raipur to hold up Chhattisgarh's move from insurgency to development as the template for the rest of the country.
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The Vice-President put Chhattisgarh's turnaround on the record at the AIIMS Raipur convocation on 2 September, calling the decades-old Naxal problem ended and crediting political resolve, a hard security line and development-first governance; no new district or casualty figures were given, so the zero-district ledger stands.
- LWE
- Naxalism
- CPI (Maoist)
- Vishwaas Nirman Jan Kalyan
- Devuji
- Red Corridor
- MHA
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