Raipur, June 30: A day after 26 CRPF personnel were killed in a Naxal ambush in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district, Chief Minister Raman Singh today called an emergency meeting to discuss anti-Naxal strategies.
The meeting, apart from reviewing yesterday’s deadly attack, discussed strategies to modernise police forces and equip them with better tools to fight the outlaws, officials said.
The meeting, which lasted for 90 minutes, was attended by Union Home Ministry and senior state officials including State Home Minister Nanki Ram Kanwar, Chief Secretary P J Ummain, State DGP Vishwaranjan, CRPF chief Vikram Shrivastav and senior Union Home Ministry official B M Nair.
Additional Director General of Police Ramnivas said Chhattisgarh police and paramilitary forces were jointly tackling the Naxal menace in the State.
–Agencies