KaranpurModi says armed Maoists are gone and ideological ones remain.
He calls them dimagi Naxals, meaning brain Naxals, and says they have infiltrated parties and organisations.
The government declared India free of Naxalism on 31 March after senior leaders were killed and hundreds surrendered.
“We must identify and defeat them and secure the country,” Modi said at a paramilitary camp in Bastar.
Modi named no party or organisation and gave no method for identifying them.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 100+ reports worldwide · These outlets told this story very differently.
- Hindustan Times leans favorable
- casts 'dimagi Naxals' as urban ideological infiltrators, framing the threat as persisting after armed Maoists were eliminated
- India.com leans favorable
- foregrounds the funding-network crackdown and 'not a single CRPF jawan lost' statistic, citing fake-currency nexus
- The Financial Express leans favorable
- frames Diwali 2026 as the first in decades after Naxalism's defeat, citing the Karanpur CoBRA base as anti-Naxal launch pad
Sources: Hindustan Times, India.com, The Financial Express