Union House Minister Amit Shah (centre) with Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai (second left) and different leaders, throughout a evaluation assembly on anti-Maoist operations, in Raipur on February 8, 2026. Picture: X/@AmitShah through PTI
Terming Maoism a harmful ideology, Union House Minister Amit Shah on Sunday (February 8, 2026) mentioned that the nation should do away with an ideology that promotes violence. He mentioned that Maoism was neither linked to a scarcity of growth nor to law-and-order points. He urged Maoists to give up, assuring them of a ‘red-carpet welcome’.
The Minister mentioned that Communist ideology provided weapons as options to issues. “The place Communists dominated, they did not deliver growth, and the place they promised welfare, they handed over weapons to tribals and unfold darkness. This ideology is an emblem of destruction, and the nation urgently must rid of it,” he mentioned.
He mentioned that Communist events have been confined to solely poll-bound Kerala and predicted their ouster, citing the BJP’s latest mayoral victory in Thiruvananthapuram.
“There aren’t many [Communists] left in democratic politics but, so one has to look by way of binoculars. Kerala is the one one left, and it’ll even be worn out this time. There are none left in Tripura, none in Bengal, and solely a bit left in Kerala, however even there, the individuals have made a begin in Trivandrum,” he mentioned.
Mr. Shah, who was talking at an occasion commemorating 25 years of Chhattisgarh, mentioned ideology performs an important function in politics. “It’s ideology that drives governance and guides it in direction of sure dimensions. That’s the reason Mahatma Gandhi mentioned, ‘I take into account politics with out ideology to be a sin’. A political occasion with out ideology can’t profit the State or the nation,” he mentioned.
The Minister contrasted the creation of three States, together with Chhattisgarh, in 2000 below a BJP-led NDA authorities on the Centre with the 2014 bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh below the UPA, and mentioned that unresolved disputes between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana confirmed that working a State was not merely an administrative course of however one which required ideology.
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