New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday highlighted a major breakthrough in India’s fight against Maoist insurgency, announcing that 303 Maoists surrendered within the past 75 hours, including 170 in Chhattisgarh alone. Speaking at the World Summit 2025, Modi emphasized his government’s efforts to reclaim regions long terrorized by Naxal violence and bring wayward youth back into the mainstream.

“In the last 50-55 years, thousands were killed by Maoist terrorists,” the Prime Minister said, expressing deep personal anguish over the bloodshed and destruction caused by the insurgency. “These extremists would not allow schools or hospitals to function, block doctors, and bomb vital institutions. This was an injustice to the young generation.”

He described the mass surrenders as a

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