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Model Diplomat Research Team · Last reviewed June 22, 2026

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- The Communist Party of India (Maoist) is a banned Indian insurgent organisation that pursues armed overthrow of the state through protracted people's war.
- When was the CPI (Maoist) formed and banned?
- How does the CPI (Maoist) differ from the CPI and CPI (M)?
- What is the Red Corridor?
- What is the government's current strategy against left-wing extremism?

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1. 21 September 2004

   The Communist Party of India (Maoist), commonly abbreviated CPI (Maoist), was constituted on through the merger of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Len…

2. 2 December 2000

   The armed wing, the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army, was founded on and is structured into platoons, companies, and battalions, supplemented by local gue…

3. 31 March 2026

   The Union Ministry of Home Affairs reduced the number of districts officially designated as affected by left-wing extremism from 126 in 2010 to far fewer by…

4. 6 April 2010

   The Dantewada ambush, in which 76 CRPF personnel were killed, and the 25 May 2013 Jhiram Ghati attack that wiped out much of the Chhattisgarh Congress leade…

5. 25 May 2013

   The 6 April 2010 Dantewada ambush, in which 76 CRPF personnel were killed, and the Jhiram Ghati attack that wiped out much of the Chhattisgarh Congress lead…

6. 5 July 2011

   State of Chhattisgarh judgment of , which ordered its disbandment over the deployment of underage and inadequately trained Special Police Officers.

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In May 2025, Indian security forces killed Nambala Keshava Rao (Basavaraj), general secretary of the CPI (Maoist), in an operation in the Abujhmad forests of Chhattisgarh's Bastar region.

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