- not merely an issue of law & order
- directly related to under-development
- not a problem in itself
- symptom of a problem
- under-developed regions ➡️ battlegrounds of Naxals
Factors
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at it’s peak ➡️ from tirupati to pashupati
- red corridor in 2008
- Nepal Maoist ➡️ Democracy, break in this corridor
