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HAZARIBAG, Dec 1: India is "on the verge of" completely eliminating Maoist extremism, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said today and asserted that the Narendra Modi government is "determined" to win this battle. He was addressing troopers of the Border Security Force (BSF) on the paramilitary force's 59th Raising Day celebrations. The about 2.65-lakh personnel strong force was raised on this day in 1965.
In the last 10 years, Amit Shah said, incidents of Maoist violence have gone down by 52 per cent, deaths in these incidents declined by 70 per cent and the number of affected districts have come down from 96 to 45. The number of "LWE-hit police stations have come down from 495 to 176", he said.
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