Bhubaneswar (PTI): Orissa government on Thursday attributed the Maoist attack on police stations in Nayagarh as a sequel to the police cracking down on red rebels.
"The success of police in last few months seems to have triggered the recent attack by naxals in the Nayagarh district," Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said in the assembly while making a statement during an adjournment motion on the law and order situation in the state.
Patnaik pointed out that security forces had arrested 25 naxal cadres and activists including one top ranking leader Anna Reddy alias Ananda Chandra.
"On two occasions, the security forces had killed two naxal cadres," he said, adding that police recovered seven firearms, four IEDs, 12 detonators, 75 gelatine sticks and a large quantity of naxal literature and pamplets during the anti-naxal operation.
Claiming that the security personnel during the recent combing operation succeeded in hauling the largest quantity of arms and ammunition in the country, Patnaik said even union Home minister Shivraj Patil had time and again described the naxalite problem as an "all India problem".
Lauding the efforts made by the state police in chasing the Maoists, the chief minister claimed that this was for the first time that a counter attack of this magnitude was launched soon after a major attack by the naxals.
"Orissa's Special Operation Group (SOG) had launched the counter attack on its own even before the CRPF and Greyhound force could reach us," Patnaik pointed out adding that two IAF choppers joined the combing operation already initiated by the security personnel in the state.
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