Do remember where the Moaists were just 3 years back. Then Jagdalpur and surrounding areas were the "frontier", where the state presence started receding and the proletariat began. Remember the DC who was "abducted" in Malkangiri?
Now there are encounters in Bheji, Chintagupha, Indravati Tiger Reserve, and Pankhajur (see above). Roads and Bridges are being constructed in Sukma, which was unthinkable a few years ago.
Like an ajgar, forces are slowly and steadily squeezing the Naxalis in their domain, the territory they effectively control has gone down drastically and is receding. How many news reports do we hear of schools being blown up on a daily basis?
As increasing number of Maoists are coralled into an ever shrinking area, fighting will become more fierce and casualties will mount. If we recall the Sri Lankan civil war, highest casualties happened when SLA pushed into LTTE's Wanni stronghold and started boxing more and more LTTE cadres into a shrinking area. The same is happening here.
The difference is that SLA did not care about the Tamil civilians caught in the cross fire as for them, a dead Tamil was one less LTTE fighter. We are not going to napalm our citizens just to snuff out a few naxalis. The progress will be slow and steady as the forces will need to push ahead, engage, consolidate and push again. We are in for a long long haul.
The naxalis are a symptom, the problem is the Khaangi-Left ecosystem, which has its poisonous tentacles spread deep all over India. They need to be tackled at multiple levels
- Empowerment of people (Ujjwala, Jan Dhan etc.)
- Squeezing the oxygen for BIF- Breaking India Forces (FCRA implementation, Demonetisation etc.)
- Development- Infrastructure and economic reforms.
These are time consuming and laborious processes and physically or legally impossible to tackle at the same time, so naturally some WILL be prioritised and from time to time we'll feel that some are being ignored.
There WILL be pin pricks form time to time to throw the GoI and people off the course as it is happening- LoC, Kashmir, Sukma, AAPtards, Barkati/Owaisi/John Dayal/Cedric Prakash etc.
Focus and determination will be the key. Less whining on the forum will help as well.