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Although the Maoists tried time and again to stall its construction, a 36-km-long stretch of NH163, a gateway to Warangal and Hyderabad in neighbouring Telangana, turned into a blacktop road in May this year...
When asked whether any Maoist cadre has warned any villager against voting, he replies in the negative.. Chhattisgarh goes to the polls in two phaseson November 7 and 17 with the Bastar division going to the polling booth in the first phase..
In Bastars Bijapur, arguably Indias worst affected district by Maoist violence, the extremists have been urging people to boycott the polls and reinforce the jantana sarkar, their self-styled parallel government..
In April 2021, at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, Bijapurs Tekalgudiyam village under Tarrem police station witnessed one of the worst Maoist ambushes of recent times when over 350 armed men stormed a party of security personnel with barrel grenade launchers and automatic weapons, killing 22 police personnel and injuring 35 others...
The situation is a tad better than in 2018 as the district authority has set up six polling booths for the first time in four erstwhile Maoist-dominated villages Pushnar, Galgam, Tarrem and Bechapal..
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