An Act of Cowardice, Says Chief Minister Fadnavis

Not long after the Naxal assault on policemen in Gadchiroli on Wednesday, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh addressed Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis promising all assistance and considering the assault a "demonstration of weakness and franticness."

"Addressed Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis in regards to the shocking occurrence in Gadchiroli and communicated my distress at the loss of bold police workforce. MHA is in steady touch with the State organization," the Minister said.

Mr. Fadnavis said all assistance will be given to the groups of the jawans.

"I emphatically denounce this assault and we will battle this danger with much more and more grounded endeavors later on," he said. The most recent assault takes the all-out loss of life of security powers in Naxal-related savagery in Maharashtra to 163 since 1991.

In 2015, an inner security report of the Maharashtra Police had evaluated the security risk as 'low' in the wake of losing just two jawans, contrasted with 11 in the earlier year, requesting that the powers focus on the Southern pieces of Gadchiroli.

Be that as it may, a senior police official said enough knowledge inputs were accessible of a conceivable strike in the Northern parts amid the Lok Sabha races, sources said.

Denying any insight disappointment, Director General of Police Subodh Kumar Jaiswal said the assault was 'indigenous' and did not have support from any outside association.