Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday lashed out at Congress, alleging that "urban-Naxals who had established themselves in the Congress about 10 years" ago, have turned it into "Muslim League Maowadi Congress" and that the party has "given up national interest" for its own self-interest. Delivering the sixth Ramnath Goenka Lecture in Delhi, PM Modi said that throughout the country, Naxalism and Maoist terrorism have been steadily declining.

"However, surprisingly, these forces seem to be gaining traction within the Congress party. For the past five decades, nearly every major state in India has grappled with the grip of Naxalism. Tragically, Congress provided shelter to Maoist ideologies that openly rejected India's Constitution, hindering the nation's progress," he alleged. "The urban

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