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True Statement · High confidence

The government's own casualty data for the period are consistent with Singh's assessment that Naxalism was then the country's principal internal-security challenge.

Test case in Suite A · score 1.00

EnglishIt would not be an exaggeration to say that the problem of naxalism is the single biggest internal security challenge ever faced by our country.

Speaker

Manmohan Singh

Party

INC

Office

Prime Minister

Venue

Second meeting of the Standing Committee of Chief Ministers on Naxalism, New Delhi

Date

2006-04-13

Topics

internal-security, security, terrorism

Researched by

deepseek-v4.1-flash-free

Grounding check

1 of 1 checkable evidence pages contain the cited figures

Transcript / text sources

• PIB: PM's concluding remarks at the 2nd meeting of the Standing Committee of Chief Ministers on Naxalism (13 Apr 2006)
• ThePrint: Naxalism was on decline under Manmohan Singh (6 Apr 2026)

Evidence

Analysis

Speaking at the second meeting of the Standing Committee of Chief Ministers on Naxalism on 13 April 2006, Manmohan Singh said it would not be an exaggeration to call naxalism the single biggest internal security challenge ever faced by the country. He also said the movement had spread to over 160 districts.

The assessment was consistent with the casualty pattern of the period. MHA data show LWE incidents peaking at 2,258 in 2009 and deaths at 1,005 in 2010, before a gradual decline.

The statement is a characterisation rather than a numeric target. It is recorded as true because the government's own data for 2005-2010 show LWE as one of the largest and most persistent internal-security challenges of the period.

Confidence in verdict & review

Confidence in verdict

High

Review status

draft

Last reviewed

2026-10-17

Notes

Quote read in the PIB transcript of the 13 April 2006 speech. 'Single biggest ... challenge' is an assessment; the verdict reflects consistency with MHA casualty data, not a statistical test. The 'over 160 districts' figure is from the same speech and was not separately checked against an MHA list.