Chhattisgarh anti-naxal operation become poorly designed: rahul gandhi

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Monday alleged that the operation against naxals in Chhattisgarh, wherein 22 safety personnel have been killed, become "incompetently" accomplished and "poorly designed".

"our jawans aren't cannon fodder to be martyred at will," Rahul Gandhi stated on twitter.

Out of the 22 fatalities in the Saturday naxal assault inside the country, the vital reserve police force (CRPF ) misplaced eight guys, along with seven cobra commandos, at the same time as one jawan is from the bastariya battalion, 8 from the DRG and five from the special assignment pressure.

Citing a media file quoting CRPF director standard Kuldeep Singh as announcing there was no intelligence failure within the operation and an identical range of ultras had been killed, Rahul Gandhi said, "if there has been no intelligence failure then a 1:1 loss of life ratio manner it become a poorly designed and incompetently finished operation."

Officers on Sunday had stated that a CRPF inspector remains lacking. Thirty-one safety personnel had been additionally injured in the ambush by way of naxals.

The safety employees had been ambushed by way of naxals once they were out on a combing operation in a woodland alongside the border of the bijapur and sukma districts of the state.

Director General Singh had mentioned that his personnel had been "surprised and ambushed" at some stage in the attack on Saturday that lasted numerous hours.

Different officials within the know of the developments stated the forces might also had been waylaid by using the naxals.