Congress Bristles At ‘Dimagi Naxal’ Tag, But Its UPA Govt Once Called ‘Urban Naxals’ More Dangerous Than Guerrillas

As several Congress leaders, including former Union Minister P. Chidambaram are grudgingly embracing the term “Intellectual Naxal” or “Dimagi Naxal” in response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speech, a decade-old position of the Congress-led UPA government has resurfaced. A 2013 counter-affidavit filed by the then Congress-led UPA government before the Supreme Court had […] The…