Union home minister Rajnath Singh is most likely to travel to the Naxal region of Sukma in Chhattisgarh the next week, only a fortnight later Prime Minister Narendra Modi toured the neighbouring district of Dantewada.
According to official sources in the home ministry office, the Union Minister is scheduled to inaugurate a police station that has been fortified and secured well in the ‘Maoist-infested’ district. It had been initiated as a part of a centrally financed project for fortification or restructuring of around 400 police stations, with the expense reaching approximately the value of Rs 2 crore each, in over 80 worst-hit districts spread across nine states.
“By inaugurating the fortified police station, the Centre will send out a message to the Maoists and local population about its making inroads into the Naxal stronghold with a larger security presence as well as its intention to push development schemes there,” according to a home ministry official.
Sukma has been a constant target of violent strikes by CPI (Maoist) and also others. The home minister is expected to address a press conference from there, as part of the government’s campaign, to showcase its achievements made in the first year of its reign.
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