The felicitation ceremony, as per an official communique issued here, was held at Shah’s residence, where he praised the forces for their indomitable courage and valour in confronting and eliminating the Naxals during the operation against them.
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday honoured the personnel of CRPF, Chhattisgarh Police, DRG, and CoBRA battalion for successfully carrying out ‘Operation Black Forest’ — one of the largest anti-Naxal drives in the Kereguttalu hills, a Maoist hotbed on the border adjoining Chhattisgarh and Telangana.
The felicitation ceremony, as per an official communique issued here, was held at Shah’s residence, where he praised the forces for their indomitable courage and valour in confronting and eliminating the Naxals during the operation against them.
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Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai and Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Sharma were also present on the occasion.
Notably, the ‘Operation Black Forest’ has been dubbed the largest anti-Naxal operation, which lasted continuously for 19 days in the remote hills of Kereguttalu.
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During the anti-Naxal drives, the security forces achieved historic success by eliminating more than 30 Naxals, including some dreaded comrades like Nambala Keshav Rao, alias Basavaraju, the general secretary of CPI-Maoist.
The forces destroyed the Naxalites’ base camp and also dealt a severe blow to their supply chain, without suffering any casualties.
Later, the Union Home Minister took to X to share the pictures of the event and wrote, “The bravery of our security forces in anti-Naxal operations will be written in golden letters in history.”
Shah also said that the central government, as well as the Chhattisgarh government, is committed to making the lives of soldiers who were martyred or injured in anti-Naxal operations and their families easier.
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