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Minister said the army services have been extending full support to the police troops on the ground and the IAF was also operating even during night time in Naxal-hit areas. Ruling out the possibility of deploying Army in anti-Naxal operations, Defence Minister A K Antony on Monday said the real answer lies in strengthening local and central police forces.
The Defence Minister said the Services are providing “full support. In fact day before yesterday, before this tragedy happened, Air Force helicopters were flying at night time. Our support has always been there.”
“India is a democracy, there is procedure, there are institutions and there are methods and opportunity for every section to express grievances. But this kind of violence is not acceptable.”, minister commented on the tragedy.
Heavily-armed Maoists ambushed a convoy of Congress leaders in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar district on Saturday, killing 27 people including Congress leader Mahendra Karma, ex-MLA Uday Mudliyar, state unit chief Nand Kumar Patel and his son.
Thirty-two others, including senior party leader VC Shukla, were injured in the attack.
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