Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday released the party’s manifesto titled “Jan Ghoshna Patra” in Rajnandgaon for Chhattisgarh, which promises farm loan waiver, minimum support price for crops as per the Swaminathan Commission recommendations and ban on liquor in Naxal affected areas. Emphasising on healthcare services, the manifesto proposes the[Read More…]
Tag: Bastar
Chhattisgarh: Why Naxal prone areas are crucial for assembly polls?
Ahead of assembly polls in Chhattisgarh, where voting is scheduled on November 12 and 20, has become a triangular contest and various Naxal hit areas are considered as key to the election outcome. Bastar, Sarguja, Bijapur and Korba are the most affected areas and considered as Red corridor of state.[Read More…]
Chhattisgarh Polls: Maoists call for election boycott
Ahead of the Chhattisgarh assembly polls, state police have seized banners and posters placed by the Maoists who gave a call for the election boycott in the highly tensed districts Bijapur and Sukma of Bastar region. Earlier in 2018, stating the election process as ‘fabricated’ the Naxalites have issued an[Read More…]
Maoists threaten Akshay Kumar, Saina Nehwal for supporting martyrs’ families
Maoists in Chattisgarh’s Naxal- affected Bastar district have distributed pamphlets as a threat to actor Akshay Kumar and badminton ace Saina Nehwal, who had donated Rs 9 lakh and Rs 6 lakh each to the families of 25 CRPF jawans martyred in Sukma attack in April this year. Kumar had[Read More…]
Security forces kill Maoist in Bastar
According to Chhattisgarh Police, a Maoist commander was killed by security forces in an encounter in Bastar district on Sunday. The police also reported that Vilas, the secretary of the influential Barsur area committee, had a bounty of Rs 16 lakh on his head. As per sources, Bastar SP Arif[Read More…]
Bastar: Maoists calling Bharat Bandh on March 29
SC grants bail to Chattisgarh journalist, after 17 months in jail
The Supreme Court on Monday granted bail to Chhattisgarh journalist Santosh Yadav, who was arrested in September 2015 on charges including rioting and conspiracy. He was arrested under the Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act for “associating with a terrorist organisation” and “supporting and aiding terrorist groups”. Chattisgarh Police had accused Yadav of[Read More…]
Bastar IG SRP Kalluri attached to police headquarters without any charge: Report
Bastar IG SRP Kalluri is being attached with the Police Headquarters (PHQ) without any charge with immediate effect, ANI reported Tuesday. On Monday, Kalluri had returned to Bastar and placed a call to DGP A N Upadhyaya, asking for a fresh posting. Kalluri, accused of mistreating researchers, activists and journalists, had been asked[Read More…]
Bastar top cop on ‘medical leave’
Threat to activist Bela Bhatia to ‘get out’ of Bastar
On Monday, about 30 men broke into the home of activist and researcher Bela Bhatia in Bastar. The men ask her to leave the region within 24 hours and threatened to burn down the house she rents. They also allegedly forced Bhatia and her landlady to sign an undertaking that[Read More…]
Chhattisgarh tribal murder: DU professor calls the FIR “absurd”
Delhi University professor Nandini Sundar on Tuesday rubbished the allegation of Chhattisgarh Police linking her to the murder of a tribal villager in Maoist-hit Bastar. She said that it was a clear case of being framed and that some people in Bastar were forced to name her and others in[Read More…]
Has Bastar journalist Prabhat Singh vanished into thin air? The nation wants to know!
A journalist based in the Maoist heartland of Dantewada goes missing and no one bats an eye. Prabhat Singh who was arrested this March for spreading obscenity through his “whatsapp” message is missing for the past three days. Having blown the lid from many government atrocities in Dantewada he was[Read More…]