New Delhi/Aligarh, May 20: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today said the tendency to destroy the society with arms cannot be accepted and that the government should take strong action against Naxals, hours after he appeared to have favoured talks with them.
“I want to say that government should take strong action against Naxals and killing of innocent people cannot be allowed,” he told reporters in New Delhi after meeting Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia.
“Any tendency to destroy the society with arms cannot be accepted. Whether it is the Centre or the states, such things should be eliminated completely,” he said.
His comments came just hours after he said at an interaction with students at Mangalayatan University in Aligarh that Naxalite youths “are our own” and that “we have to make them understand that talks are the only way and killing people is not going to solve any problem.
–Agencies