RAIPUR/NAGPUR: Chhattisgarh’s Bastar awaits the largest mass surrender of Maoists in its history of Left-wing extremism Friday, with 170 guerrillas lined up to formally lay down arms in what home minister Amit Shah termed a “landmark day” in the battle to purge the country’s Red Corridor of Naxalite influence. “Abujhmarh and North Bastar that were once terror bases have today been declared free from Naxal terror... A trace of Naxalism exists in south Bastar, which will be wiped out soon by security forces,” Shah declared on X. The surrender ceremony, to be held in Jagdalpur in the presence of CM Vishnu Deo Sai and his deputy Vijay Sharma, comes three days after CPI (Maoist) politburo veteran Mallojula Venugopal Rao, aka Bhupathi, turned himself in along with 61 other guerrillas in Ma

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