Hyderabad: The Telangana BJP today strongly condemned Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy’s bizarre proposal to reopen talks with Naxals — a threat that has long been eradicated from the state.
N.V. Subash, Chief Spokesperson and Media In-charge of the BJP, lambasted Revanth Reddy for either being “utterly ignorant of history or deliberately trying to mislead the public.” He pointed out that during the tenure of former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, whom Revanth cites as a model, talks with Naxals failed. It was only through strong policing, led by DGP Swaranjit Sen and Intelligence Chief Aravinda Rao, that the state successfully crushed left-wing extremism.
“Between 2004 and 2006, major Naxal leaders were either neutralized in encounters or fled to neighboring states like Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra,” Subash stated.
“Since Telangana’s formation in 2014, there have been no significant Naxal-related violent incidents — only isolated, negligible cases.”
Given this reality, the BJP questioned the Chief Minister’s motives for reviving the “Naxal bogey” at a time when Telangana is grappling with a deep financial crisis. “Is Revanth Reddy trying to embarrass the Centre, which is on the verge of eradicating Naxalism nationwide, particularly in Chhattisgarh? Or is this a ploy to create a pretext for siphoning additional central funds under the guise of an imaginary security threat?” Subash asked.
The BJP has challenged the state government to provide concrete statistics of major Naxal violence in the last 18 months to justify this move. “Without any credible threat, Revanth Reddy’s bizarre ‘Operation Kagar’ sounds like an ill-conceived drama to distract from his government’s failures,” Subash added.
The BJP demanded that the Chief Minister immediately explain the logic behind reviving a dead threat and whether the state is preparing to welcome fleeing extremists from Chhattisgarh — risking Telangana’s hard-won peace for political gamesmanship.
