Maoists numbers, military potential increasing: Sushilkumar Shinde

New Delhi  : Maoist cadres in the country are gaining in strength and have displayed military potential to form new battalions, union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde warned Thursday.

“Naxalism continues to pose a significant challenge. There are indicators about increase in the number of trained and armed cadres, reorganisation of military potential for formation of new battalions,” Shinde said.

They were displaying potential for “the creation of well-developed indigenous capacity for accretions to their arsenal”, he added.

Shinde was delivering the inaugural address at a three-day annual meet here of police directors general and inspectors general from states and central police forces.