India says Maoist rebel chief killed in ‘breakthrough’ blow | Military News

Home Minister Amit Shah says Nambala Keshav Rao, alias Basavaraju, is among 27 rebels killed in an operation in Chhattisgarh state.

Indian forces have killed the Maoist rebel chief and dozens of other fighters, the country’s home minister says, calling it a decisive blow in a decades-long conflict.

India has been waging an all-out offensive against the last remaining groups of the Naxalite rebellion, a far-left Maoist-inspired fighting movement that began in 1967.

Home Affairs Minister Amit…