CM honours 55 jawans in Balaghat, gives out-of-turn promotions
| Date :23-Feb-2023 |
Our Correspondent
Balaghat,
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that Hawk Force and police personnel neutralised Naxalites in difficult and adverse circumstances and destroyed their network. In 2022, our jawans have been successful in killing six Naxalites carrying prize money of Rs 1,18,00,00.
Chouhan said, “Today, I have come to Balaghat to honour gallantry of such brave soldiers. For honour of my valiant jawans, I will sacrifice my busy schedule, but I will not allow any shortfall in honour of the jawans. The Chief Minister said that if bravery is not respected, it will become barren. The State Government is honouring and saluting our brave jawans who have risked their lives to eradicate Naxalism by giving them out-of-turn promotions. We salute the spirit of police and security forces personnel. Chouhan honoured 55 jawans in Police Line Balaghat by giving them out-of-turn promotions. He said that today is a wonderful opportunity to give out-of-turn promotions to police personnel. Our villages and cities are safe because of the hard work of these jawans in adverse conditions. He told police and Hawk force jawans that whenever they go to forest for anti-Naxal campaign, they should not consider themselves alone, Chief Minister and Madhya Pradesh Government are also with them.
He said that year 2022 has been the year to destroy network of Naxalites. For the first time in history of the State, success has been achieved in killing six dreaded Naxalites in a year. This success has not come easily. Our jawans have achieved this success after a hard struggle in adverse circumstances by putting their lives in danger in very unsafe situations. Chief Minister Chouhan said that our fight is against such anti-national organisation, whose members do not follow the constitution and attack secretly. Earlier there was terror of dacoits in the northern areas of the state. Our government has eliminated the dacoits from the state with strong will power. SIMI’s network has been destroyed. We will not tolerate any kind of terror in the state. He said that apart from giving incentive allowance to the jawans involved in the Naxal eradication campaign, promotions are being given ahead of schedule. Due to this encouragement of the state government, the government is succeeding in eliminating the Naxalites.
DGP Sudhir Saxena said that today is a historic day for Madhya Pradesh Police. Simultaneously, 55 jawans are being promoted out of turn. Never before have such a large number of promotions been given at once. These 55 jawans,
who showed their bravery in the Naxalite encounter, have been promoted after completing all the formalities quickly. He said that for the first time in the history of 32 years, 6 Naxalites have been killed in a single year. SP Sameer Saurabh informed that on November 30, 2022, in an encounter with Naxalites in Garhi police station area of Balaghat district, Hawk Force jawans had killed 2 prize Naxalites. Similarly, on December 18, 2022, in an encounter in the forest of Harratola under Pathri outpost, security force personnel had killed one prize Naxal. Out of turn promotion is being given to all the 55 jawans involved in these two encounters.
Chairman MP Backward Classes Welfare Commission and MLA Gaurishankar Bisen, Chairman MP Mineral Development Corporation Pradeep Jaiswal along with ADGP Adarsh Katiyar, IG, Balaghat Zone Sanjay Kumar, DIG Anurag Sharma, Collector Dr. Girish Kumar Mishra and other officers were present. Chief Minister Chouhan and the guests felicitated the jawans who got out-of-turn promotions in the programme. Along with Chief Minister, people’s representatives, administrative and police officers paid tribute to the martyred jawans by laying wreaths at the martyr’s memorial located in the Police Line.