NEW DELHI, June 5: Prime Minister today said the Centre would convene an all-party meet on Monday to evolve a “broader national consensus” on the strategy to deal with Naxal violence.
“To build a broader national consensus on the strategy to tackle the Naxalite challenge, Government has convened a meeting of all political parties on the 10th of this month,” the Prime Minister said while addressing the Chief Ministers’ conference on Internal Security organised here.
He said time had now come to view the challenges of terrorism, communal violence and Left Wing Extremism in a holistic manner.
“I think each one of us needs to be completely objective in our approach to these issues, acting in national interest rising above narrow political and ideological divides,” the Prime Minister said.
He appealed to political parties and all sections of society to work together to find effective ways and means of meeting these grave challenges.
Describing as a “setback” the recent Naxal attack on Congress workers in Chhattisgarh, the Prime Minister emphasised the need for the Centre and States to work together to eliminate such largescale attacks.
The Central Government on its part had already started taking steps in this regard, Dr Singh said.
“The Cabinet Secretary, the Home Secretary and my office have been involved in an exercise that would lead to a further strengthening of our defensive and offensive capabilities against Left Wing Extremists,” he said and hoped that State Governments would fully cooperate and add to the effectiveness of these efforts.(UNI)