Amit Shah to visit Bastar on April 5

Raipur: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will visit Dantewada in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region, the ground zero of heightened offensives against Naxalites, on April 5 to attend a festival and interact with commanders of security forces.

Shah will arrive in Raipur on April 4 night. He will reach Dantewada town in Bastar region on April 5 morning, Deputy CM and Home Minister Vijay Sharma said on Tuesday.

“Shah will offer prayers at Maa Danteshwari Temple in Dantewada. He will attend the closing ceremony of the ‘Bastar Pandum’ festival,” he told reporters.

Shah will meet local public representatives and later chair a meeting with commanders of security forces involved in anti-Naxal operations (on April 5), Sharma said.

The Union Home Minister has frequently underlined the government’s resolve to eradicate Naxalism by March 2026.

Notably, anti-Naxalite operations intensified in Chhattisgarh after the BJP came to power in 2023. Security forces have gunned down around 350 Naxalites in a string of encounters, mostly centred in the Bastar region, since last January.

In the latest strike, 18 Naxalites, including 11 women, were killed in twin encounters in Bastar region on March 29.