Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh on Saturday won standing ovation of their party bosses as one after another Central leaders of BJP lauded his efforts for deftly tackling the Maoist insurgency which reached its zenith in the State with gory attack on the Congress convoy in which the State’s Opposition party’s leadership was virtually wiped out.
On the first day of the BJP national working committee meet in Goa on Saturday, top leadership of the BJP including its national president Rajnath Singh, leader of Opposition in the lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj, leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and others supported the steps taken by the Chhattisgarh Government and expressed their solidarity with Raman Singh in this critical period.
Terming Naxalism and terrorism as two faces of the same coin, Raman Singh said that Maoist insurgency was the biggest danger for democracy of India and informed the gathering about the steps taken by the State Government to curb it. He said that Maoist insurgency was not the problem of Chhattisgarh alone but the entire country as a number of States are feeling its heat.
Raising the demand once again for framing a national policy on this issue, Singh said that the Chhattisgarh Government was trying to solve this menace by strengthening public security as well as implementing development projects as we want to free the populace from the clutches of rebels through peaceful development and better security arrangements. He requested the Union Government to chart out a unified action plan in cooperation of affected States to give final blow to this scourge.
CM Raman Singh said in the BJP working committee meet that despite being an adolescent State, Chhattisgarh is fighting the
biggest fight of the country against Maoist insurgency. Maoists always oppose democratic norms undermining the fact that democracy and development are complementary to each others.