Union home minister Amit Shah reached Chhattisgarh on Monday following Saturday’s Maoist attack in the state’s Bastar region, which claimed the lives of at least 22 security personnel, an official said.
Shah will visit the site where Maoists attacked and killed the security personnel in a forest along the border between the Bijapur and Sukma districts over the weekend, they added.
Shah will also hold a review meeting and meet the jawans injured in the Maoist attack led by the commander of battalion number-1 Madvi Hidma.
Shah was received by Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel in Jagdalpur and later the Union home minister laid wreaths at the coffins of 14 security personnel, who lost their lives in the Maoist attack, in Police Lines in Jagdalpur, a senior official said.
Amit Shah will later chair a high-level meeting at the Police Coordination Centre on the situation, which will be attended by Bhupesh Baghel, senior officials of the state police and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).
Shah will then leave for the CRPF’s Basaguda camp in Bijapur in a helicopter and will interact and lunch with the personnel of the force and state police.
He will later go to Raipur and visit three hospitals where the injured personnel are admitted and leave for Delhi at 5.30 pm on Monday.
Surjitt Sahani
