Securitry forces in Odisha claim to have developed ‘supremacy’ in 70%of the location in Swabhiman Anchal in the State’s Malkangiri district, which was considered a bastion of the banned CPI (Maoist).
Speaking to the media on the sidelines of an interview to announce the State’s most significant ever arms and ammunition seizure in a Left Wing Extremism (LWE)- affected area, a senior cops main asserted that the Maoists’ hold in the region formerly called ‘cut-off area’ seemed crumbling.
” Early January we had actually introduced a big composite operation in cut-off area including Odisha cops, Greyhound Force of Andhra Pradesh, BSF and CRPF,” said Director General of Cops Abhay. “It offered us a great deal of inputs as to how Maoist extremists run. The arms and ammunition recovered throughout the operation was most likely among the biggest seizures made in LWE theatre throughout India,” he included.
Swabhiman Anchal was considered as a ‘liberated zone’ by the CPI (Maoist) extremists similar to the location in the Bastar area of Chhattisgarh.
The cluster of 151 towns in Malkangiri