Public sentiment towards the Maoist movement in India is polarized, reflecting a mix of optimism about recent government efforts to curb insurgency through socio-economic development, and concerns regarding ongoing social inequalities that may sustain the movement's roots. Many commenters express hope that these developments will lead to the end of the insurgency by 2026 while recognizing the need for addressing deeper issues such as poverty and systemic injustices to ensure lasting peace.

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Wow I had no idea the Maoist conflict was still this widespread in India, that’s honestly shocking

Live_Tip1148

Potential-Mobile-567

When People's Republic of China has ditched (mostly) Maoism, how come it spreads abroad? I am quite curious about how non Chinese got affected by his ideology. Mao Zedong's works in Chinese are already very complicated to understand and digest, not to mention the translated ones.

Reasonable-Gas-9771

This is like 2015.. atleast 10yrs old situation (I live near red-corridor).

"Severely affected" then &amp; now are like night &amp; day.

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The [Militarized Communist Party of Peru](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militarized_Communist_Party_of_Peru), a Shining Path remnant, similarly controls parts of the Valle de los Ríos Apurímac, Ene y Mantaro.

GustavoistSoldier

Same here in the Philippines. 

We have the Communist Party of the Philippines - New People's Army which was founded by Prof. Jose Maria Sison (longest communist insurgency).

champoradoeater

CobblerHot7135

Didn't know India had its own version of hide and seek.

fizerame

Boris740

There was also a sort of unease in Naxal which current govt used in there favour. As Naxals claimed to fight against the government and the class system, but in reality, they ended up building their own class hierarchy. At the bottom, poor tribal people were forced to dedicate their lives to communism, stripped of basic rights, even denied the chance to have families with men being castrated to ensure “sacrifice.” Meanwhile at the top, leaders lived in comfort, raised families, sent their children to elite institutions and enjoyed the "Very Capitalist lifestyle" they claimed to despise.

Familiar-Goat1132

My district had naxals too, most of the areas are safe now. Earlier they used to put nails on the road in their area and kidnap anyone passing by.

4th_May2025

wtf i am from west champaran marked in the map(northest one in the map) and i know it quite well that this is bull shit it had some problems but communism was never a major like not even minor tbh i never heard any thing about such spread of maoist or such

it had problems like dacoits it was called "mini chambal" because of that.

Ambitious-Bonus-5708

I don't think this is very accurate, I'm from that area.

Newton_7777

At its peak Naxals controlled 40% of India and ran a parallel govt, and they were being supported from outside of India as well as Inside India by liberal elites who are not called urban naxals, this govt has done a great job of eradicating these extremists and by killing or making them join the common people by surrendering (pardonning them) the home minister has set a goal of eliminating Naxlism by 2026

they are doing good, hopefully if not by 2026 few years later is also fine

Benimaru101

This is the latest map..if u think this is bad..look at the 2007 map. It was scary. Now is down

AlgebraNation

Available-Variety315

And here we have the west where some people are screaming that they're suffering from left wing extremism 🥲🤦🏼‍♂️.

Just come to India you will know what left extremism is. Not a bunch of imbeciles shouting on roads and universities to allow medical interventions or support middle east terrorist groups

Supreme-Leader-Kim_

Compared to 2014, looks like the rash is healing fast now.

i_am_that_too

How do you make such maps? Or have you taken it from some place?

Independent-Elk-9773

If you want to learn more about the uprising and the underlying causes, I really reconmend this video: https://youtu.be/4OD4xB5min4?si=2h6CR-dzf1ND-F7u

Particular-Bike-28

source ? when is the data from ? how was the data collected ? you should put this in the post body OP u/[neonfrostbite](https://www.reddit.com/user/neonfrostbite/)

WolfGuptaofficial

communism really is a problem anywhere around the globe

Derfflingerr

\&gt;then I would suggest documentaries from vice, jist, Al Jazeera

  
terrible sources, especially the last one.

Duke_Frederick

None of the media outlets your mentioned are credible.

Especially Qatari propaganda outlet Al Jazeera

Problematic_Loner

Dependent-Soil3028

Few-Audience9921

Arey how many times will they put the same shit up! Stop it man!

Natarajavenkataraman

On 6 April 2010, a company of India’s central paramilitary soldiers came under attack from Maoist guerrillas in the central-eastern state of Chhattisgarh. The Maoists, who had turned this region into their stronghold, had laid a trap. With little training and scant knowledge of the Amazon-like jungle, the Indian soldiers found themselves ambushed. They fought back, but they could not escape the ambush. Seventy-five soldiers and a state policeman accompanying them were killed.

Never before had the Indian forces suffered so many casualties in a single incident, not even in [Kashmir](https://aeon.co/essays/india-is-a-postcolonial-power-its-rule-in-kashmir-is-colonial), where, for more than 20 years, they had been fighting a protracted battle against Islamist extremists. As the body bags of the soldiers reached their native places in different parts of India, a deep sense of anger generated among people who till recently had only a vague idea about who these Maoists were, and even less about the hinterland that the Maoists had turned into a guerrilla zone.

Since the mid-2000s, the Maoists had grown in strength, launching audacious attacks against government forces and looting police armouries and declaring certain areas as ‘liberated zones’. Their operations ran in a contiguous arc of land, from Nepal’s border in the east to the Deccan Plateau in the south – an area the Maoists called Dandakaranya or DK, using the name in its historical sense. This is a region where India’s indigenous people, the Adivasis, lived; it also [holds](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08941920.2014.941447) valuable minerals and other natural resources in abundance. The Indian state wanted control over the natural resource wealth, but the Maoists were proving to be an obstacle. Then, in 2009, the then prime minister Manmohan Singh called them India’s ‘greatest internal security threat’.



On the morning of the attack in 2010, I’d landed in a part of DK, in a city a three-hour car ride from the edge of a town beyond which was a forest ruled by Maoists. From there, if one started walking, one would, without getting on to a motorable road, reach the spot of the Maoist ambush. There would be only a sprinkling of tiny hamlets, inhabited by Adivasis, who thought of Maoists as the ‘government’. Beyond that, they had very little idea of life outside, least of all the blitzkrieg of ‘India Shining’, a political campaign by a previous government (the conservative BJP), which had in spirit continued to exist as a cursor to economic optimism.

The scrawny man – I’ll call him ‘A’ – who came to pick me up from the railway station on his battered motorcycle was a former Maoist. He was also a Dalit, the so-called ‘lower-caste’ people at the bottom of the Hindu [caste system](https://aeon.co/essays/how-india-deludes-itself-that-caste-discrimination-is-dead), who, like the Adivasis, have been [historically maltreated](https://psyche.co/ideas/they-keep-the-hindu-funeral-pyres-burning-but-at-what-cost) in India. He lived in a slum and had been recruited in the 1980s, along with several others in the city, by a woman Maoist. After a few years, ‘A’ had quit the party to raise a family. Life outside had been harder than inside the forest. For people like ‘A’, it was difficult to come out of the poverty and bitterness that came with their ascriptive status in the caste system. He struggled with odd jobs, and in the night drank heavily and sang resistance songs by the yard to temporarily rid himself of the bile.

ewatta200

The poetic waxing makes me gag.

It's buried *deep* in the article, but:

&gt;The new roads and phone towers were welcomed by rural people. The Maoists began killing Adivasis on suspicion of being police informers. This violence alienated Adivasis, and others too.

This is the most important part. The naxals were hated by the government, normies, and the very people the purported to uplift. They were not revolutionaries, but closer to mobsters.

If you go down the list of major terrorist attacks in India, the ones committed by the Naxals are particularly senseless: the targets being mostly rando government workers, villagers, etc.

&gt;How history remembers them is too early to say; but it is a fact that, had it not been for them, the much-needed focus on the hinterland of DK would not have been there.

Ideally they'd be remembered as the evil pieces of shit they were, but academics love historical revisionism, especially when the "bad guys" achieve a good outcome.

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Every state leader, independently growing and free of influence of the US is constantly under threat from the deep state. This is just one of the attacks that has come on the surface thanks to the geopolitical observers on insta. And for someone like Modi, he has constantly got enemies from outside and inside plotting constantly for his death or dismissal. Tons of efforts like these have been made ever since 2014.

assortedfire06

I think Modi and putin has maximum threat from US and being natural allies this is not far fetched.

Full_Onion_6552

I mean, it's definitely possible. 

Till last year, their own President [Trump] was escaping Assassination Attempts.

LeSappeuer

Abhay164

I hope that if they assassinate Modiji, they do understand that they will be stepping from fire pan into fire. The situation will be like what was after Indira and Rajiv assassinations. The sympathy wave would be so high that ANY leader propped by BJP for PM post will win. And then imagine them propping Yogiji.

CrimeMasterGogoChan

You connected dots? Sir you just wrote what you saw on reels, c'mon 😭

Sea-Cartographer-883

CitizensCane

Yes.  The USA  and Illuminati group never wanted India to become an independent economic state.  Russia &amp; China understood this; Russia admits and China is not coming out openly.  Though India and China are not ideological enemies, China's economic interests and it's expansion theory prevent them from building a  Russia - Chinna - India ally.

Dharani637

\&gt;THESE ALL ARE NOT 100 PERCENT VERIFIED CLAIMS 

Please provide source/citations.

MynkM

https://youtu.be/WCEvgH4bMts?si=cqTswsHgBFV5XIck
Found a video with similar claims by unacademy

Pattu_raj

Ok_Advance_3031

Minskdhaka

Mostly this can be speculation and technically it's impossible to assassinate any of the leaders during sco submit think it's like crossing multiple agencies protecting and doing counter operations months before leaders arrive there.you think in china they deploy multiple face recognition systems and dna collection operations before every important submit . In 1965 when did pm shastri found dead no one suspected USSR ultimately suspicion was on people who were unhappy with that submit.also how you know just think when RAW and FSB does any operation it never gets out even if anyone tries to disclose  the information get neutralized before it happens. Like operation fiji.

The people who know what happened are either who are in intelligence or the scholars who wait to let time pass to publish the work.

white-day-

dashcam_wanderer

Terrible-Professor18

There would have been dozens of attempts on Modi's life over the last 10 years; we will never know the details. I am not a BJP or Modi supporter, but as of now Modi is the one factor holding the country together. I cannot imagine the direction India will go if something happens to him.

Appropriate_Page_824

Indiadiscussion me kuchh bhi discuss kar loge

ubuntu-uchiha

Not even the propaganda machines of both the major parties in this country can come up with shit this ridiculous.

munchkinpumpkin662

whyisitwhatitis

No matter what the case is, we gotta support and take care of our PM. Saw too many comments in this thread saying Modi this, Modi that, but remember, he is our's. Show atleast a little bit of care for your own leader, retards. He is doing whatever he is doing for our country. No matter what your political affiliation is, knowing his life could be in danger should bring us together.

kannan12311

thatindiandude12

American efforts to eliminate the most loved leader of Bharath foiled with the help or Russia and China and Indian spy agencies. America wants its puppet to be the Prime Mininster of India. Ex Bangladesh President Hasina is not leading India because of Western spy agencies targeting her.

ramchi

If you will watch foreign YouTubers you will understand this is a common method of russians to spread conspiracy theories and their propaganda and now I realize they were right the Russian bots are everywhere that is why a person who is hated all over the world is a sigma male in India

Equivalent_Can_4029

Pretty_Awareness_602

United-Peak2732

All jumla before the Bihar elections. If there is ever an assassination attempt, do you think the SPG would be that idiot to handover the PM to some other nation’s leader’s car?

Wooden-Average6513

Modi is trying to play victim for standing up for India (actually for Ambani and Adani as the cheap oil benefits them and not the ppl of India) before elections.

There is nothing else in it.

Key_Kaleidoscope2242

If Modiji dies as active PM I am 100% sure next PM will be BJP leader again and I don't think they are that much of an Idiot because Modiji still is much softer then well Yogiji

kaleshipookie

Where did you guys even pick this theory? The dih riding is so evident sometimes.

TheConvocated

that meeting was about not trusting chinese.

Prudent-Jelly426

you didn't connect anything, it is a post copied from gaurav pradhan

roadburner123

One of the dumbest things I have ever seen on internet today

Puttananja

Just get me a Raufoss Mk 211 HEIAP round. I would do it for free just for the fun of it. /s

TheFriendlyBatman001

I am no expert but deep state ain't gonna get successful in operations in china and countries that are heavily secured against US. Bangladesh has a US puppet sitting there as an interim govt. , what else can you expect from them.

Linx_uchiha

Sir what are u doing here!!!!?? U should be heading secret service

Vegetable-Basil-1832

How can I read about more stuff like these? Of present day deep state operations?

MAK-sudu-Toi

It's " Seemed" not "Semmmed" 
Sorry had to say it

Busy_Acanthaceae_296

LopsidedLier

Maybe elections are nearby? I don't know 😐

ufgddd

100% sure this is some fake news spread by it cells.

introverted_guy23

Modiji is part of the global deep state called world economic forum and bill gates syndicate...

Illustrious_Sir3520

FuckYouAndroidUsers

Damn bro, bhut badiya writing bhai, Oscar leloge ya Emmy?

1mandala1

Arre bhai. What is deep state? Matlab bhi pata hai deep state ke concept ka? Its not a US specific thing

bottleofvino

Wah....kya baat hai....gajab. Byomkesh....kahaan the tum.

Nikkido

letmewearmycrocs

Anti incumbancy jab nahi aati hai tab Deepstate jaagta hai.
Aur jahan tak rahi baat China ki dosti ki toh agar uske saath dosto means

CIA ka double agent, jo bilkul US ki chaal chlega tab hum Pakistan se aur jyada unsafe ho jayenge, aur jab tak hum smjh payenge, tab tak china apni chini ka zehar phela chuka hoga.

Grand-Vitara

Isnt Modi's Lackeys themselves a deep state. 😅

Bokwass

people have no idea how exceptionally capable our RAW and a special branch is.. i can't provide proof but RAW literally track thousands of independent entities.. in fact RAW is active and tracking more western agents agents in India than pakistanis and chinese.. they prevents hundreds of missions every year.. indian government also spending a fortune to upgrade them(both congress and bjp did)

Chop-Beguni_wala

ChangeUnable1137

World needs to understand that it's better to be enemy of us rather than being a friend . I understand it's still a superpower but a degrading superpower with 37 trillian $ debt. 

I would say Brics should expand &amp; ensure pretty soon they end dollar monopoly , that would be the end of us As superpower. That would be a spectacle. I know would impact world economy but tyranny should end. 

Modiji is definately a target with Putin &amp; Xi .They just want to topple counties to ensure their tyranny continues &amp; they project it like they are world savers... What ever they have done in Iraq &amp; Afganistan is gona bite them back one day... KARMA.

Positive_Student6531

AkBroes

Dude its a copy paste story. I personally saw the same post in many subs and you are saying you connected dots🫡.

Eddielivingstone

Ngl but if deep state gets success in assassinating modi, congress and opposition will cry that BJP killed it's own leader to gain sympathy from voters so that they return to power again in next elections 😂😂😂

ClashWithBlaze

Extraordinary claims require extradition proof.

Loki_kills_Thanos

&gt;russian intelligence

least obvious russian pr post

Immediate_Coat2822

Rusticsage

May the Lord always protect my beloved Prime Minister.

Necessary_Sense8853

Good to see some people on Reddit are viewing from this perspective also.

In many Reddit communities you can only criticize the BJP.
The moment you say anything pro BJP , you will be banned without second thoughts.

rkphy2

New CiD episode 🤯 Maal fook ACP Parduman

navster001

Someone rightly said. Khaali dimaag shaitan ka Ghar. 

Why would a leader (whose country is at war) risk his own life to prevent assassination of partner country's leader.

Also I belive the SPG gives adequate protection to the PM that we wouldn't need the security from another country.

PartyYak1798

Bandidos_in

Maybe he shouldn’t have encouraged the Gujarat Riots of 2002. Bad thoughts = bad actions

Turnaround-2003

Warm_Seaworthiness19

I like how imagination went wild in this sub !

Significant-Peace844

If Americans dare harm Modi.... Whole America will become Afghanistan

According-Lab-6700

Just one question: How deep is deep state? A foot or a mile long?

Butterscotch2890

gamertag_0128

You need to go outside and touch grass, OP.

Playful_Internal_528

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