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Hammer Of The State: End Of Naxalite Nightmare Under Modi-Shah Doctrine

  • India's war on Naxalism is no longer a containment strategy but a civilisational purge, as the Shah Doctrine marks not policy reform but the return of ruthless statecraft.

Kishan KumarJun 05, 2025, 03:05 PM | Updated Jun 09, 2025, 11:24 AM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah have vowed to eliminate the Naxals from the country by March 2026.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah have vowed to eliminate the Naxals from the country by March 2026.


We are living in a period of deep instability, what Indian tradition calls the Kali Yuga, a time marked by moral erosion and institutional decay. In such periods, nations require strong leadership rooted in strategic clarity and the pursuit of order. The Modi-Shah doctrine represents precisely that: a realist approach to restoring internal balance through the decisive application of state power.

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s campaign to eliminate the Naxalite insurgency, arguably the most persistent and dangerous internal threat to the Indian state, should be understood not just as a tactical victory in counterinsurgency but as a strategic consolidation of central authority.

It reflects a broader project of state-building, where hierarchy is reaffirmed, sovereignty is reasserted, and national coherence is strengthened. In the logic of offensive realism, where survival is the primary goal of all states, such moves are not only rational but necessary.

Julius Evola taught that decadence must be met with the sword, that the regression of the modern world is not to be negotiated with but to be crushed. So it must be said without equivocation: the Maoists are not rebels, they are not revolutionaries, they are the residue of a global materialist poison, animated by envy, subversion, and hatred for Dharma.

And in the character of Amit Shah, India has found the Kshatriya who understands that true order must be imposed with precision, with violence, and with impersonal resolve.

The End of Ambiguity: From Weakness to Dominion

The Naxalite insurgency, born from the dying embers of international Marxism, had festered in India's forests for over five decades. It survived not through ideological merit but through the cowardice of successive governments, who mistook insurgency for grievance and brutality for ideology.

This criminal indulgence reached its peak during the Congress-led UPA years, where the Home Ministers vacillated between sentimentalism and paralysis. Shivraj Patil saw Naxals as “our children.” Chidambaram wavered between dialogue and action. Their era birthed the 2010 massacre of 76 CRPF personnel at Dantewada. That is their legacy.

Contrast this with the Modi-Shah dispensation. Amit Shah declared, with oracular certainty, that Left-Wing Extremism would be eliminated by March 31, 2026. This was not a boast; it was an oath. And every subsequent action has flowed with geometrical clarity from that metaphysical centre.

The Decapitation Doctrine: Annihilating the Head, Not Merely the Hand

The first law of war is to strike the head, not the limb. In this spirit, the Modi-Shah doctrine is not a war of attrition, it is a war of annihilation. From 2019 to 2025, 15 members of the Maoist Politburo or Central Committee have been eliminated. The death of Basavaraju in May 2025, the General Secretary of CPI (Maoist), is not just a tactical success; it is a metaphysical strike. The serpent was decapitated. With it, the shadow lost its coherence.

The philosophy here is not merely military. It is alchemical: to remove the impure element so the form may stabilise. The Modi government is not content with pushing Maoists into retreat. It seeks, Evola-like, to uproot the very substratum that permits such revolt to fester.

From Resistance to Retaliation: The Offensive State as Archetype

The doctrine of Forward Operating Bases (FOBs), expanded from 66 to over 600 in a decade, represents more than logistical expansion. It is a territorial invocation: the sacred act of planting the standard. These bases become not just military outposts, but spatial negations of Naxal power.

The jungle, once their occult sanctuary, is now watched by drones, mapped by satellites, and patrolled by tribal warriors in the Bastariya Battalion, trained not in utopian fantasy but in discipline and sacrifice.

Through Operation Black Forest, Operation Kagaar, and the sustained deployments of CoBRA and Greyhounds, the Indian State has ceased to react. It now commands. It strikes first. It penetrates the heart. Evola reminds us that true authority requires the destruction of that which defies hierarchy. That is precisely what the home ministry has done.

The End of the Sorcery: Financial and Ideological Supply Lines Severed

No rebellion sustains itself on rifles alone. It lives by invisible flows: of money, of sympathy, of myth. The Modi-Shah doctrine has systemically exorcised these channels.


But more crucially, the intellectual sewage that gave moral cover to this insurgency has been flushed. The UAPA Amendment of 2019 empowered the State to name not just groups but individuals as terrorists. The ecosystem of “Urban Naxals,” those middle-class delusionaries who preach insurrection from English-language op-ed pages and NGO seminars, is now on notice. The hydra has felt the torch.

Their panic is visible: they now call for “ceasefire,” for “dialogue,” for a return to the very ambiguity that sustained them. Telangana's Left parties and even Congress have been drawn into this mendicant discourse. But their calls are not signs of peace; they are admissions of defeat. No prince negotiates with a dying thief.

New Ways of War: Precision, Ritual, Transcendence

The new doctrine of counterinsurgency is not improvisation. It is a method. It is war elevated to ritual. The SAMADHAN doctrine outlines this new geometry: Smart Leadership, Aggressive Strategy, Motivation, Actionable Intelligence, Harnessing Technology, and so on. But behind the acronyms lies the essential principle of Evolian order: that war must be total, not in scope but in vision.

Surveillance is now divine omniscience: drones, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. Combat is no longer a reaction; it is preemption. Information warfare is not an afterthought but the first strike. Radio jingles, theatre, Doordarshan serials, and drama troupes now serve as Dharma propaganda, purifying minds and banishing the glamour of revolution.

Even development has become weaponised. Roads, telecom towers, and schools are no longer amenities. They are standards of conquest, the cementing of territory, the breaking of the spell. In Evola’s words, this is the restoration of Form against the formless.

The Judgment of History: Comparing the Shah Doctrine to the Era of Excuses

Under the UPA, deaths from LWE peaked at 1,005 in 2010. Today, they stand at 150. In 2024 alone, 287 Naxals were eliminated, the most in 25 years. The kill ratio now favours security forces at 14:1, a mathematical proof of metaphysical victory.

Let us speak with brutal honesty: the UPA, paralysed by human rights anxieties and ideological compromise, allowed the disease to metastasise. Amit Shah, by contrast, is the restored Kshatriya. Where they offered forgiveness, he offered obliteration. Where they wrote white papers, he wrote epitaphs.

This is not a temporary policy win. It is a return to Tradition in the Evolian sense: that the State must not merely govern but dominate, not merely administer but ordain.

The Final Purge and the Coming Silence

The Maoist cadres are now fragmented. Their command is dead, their myths debunked, and their funders exposed. Thousands have surrendered. The forests are no longer theirs, they are watched by the eyes of the State and sanctified by the infrastructure of the Nation.

But the war is not over. Evola warned that revolutions, once decapitated, may reappear in other guises. The State must be eternally vigilant. The March 2026 deadline is not merely a logistical target. It is a metaphysical hour. By then, the ritual must be complete.

The Shadow must not merely be defeated. It must be burned.

Toward the Solar Empire

Let there be no misunderstanding. Operation Black Forest, the Shah Doctrine, the Modi offensive, these are not policies. They are imperium. They are the return of that ancient power which governed not through consent but through destiny.

Evola taught us that modernity must be resisted with transcendence. India is now fighting not merely for land or law but for Dharma. The forest has been cleansed with fire. The citadels of ideology have been breached. The Kali Yuga still lingers, but the hammer has struck.

The Naxal is dead. Let the Rashtra rise.

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