'Reasonable to anticipate more Maoist attacks'

April 25, 2017 13:57

Former Central Reserve Police Force director general and senior security advisor in the home ministry K Vijay Kumar, who has rushed to Chhattisgarh following the killing of 25 CRPF men in Sukma on Monday, speaks with Rediff.com's Prasanna D Zore about the morale of the jawans after the Maoist attack and explains with numbers why Naxals are fighting a losing battle. But he refused to comment on why the CRPF is without a DG for the last two months, a period in which Naxals ambushed CRPF jawans twice in Sukma, on March 11 and April 24, killing 37 jawans. Read the interview here.

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