Raipur, April 13 -- Chhattisgarh Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Sharma expressed confidence that Naxalism will be eradicated from the Bastar region within the next year.

In a podcast with ANI, the Deputy Chief Minister, who holds the portfolio of Home Ministry in the state, emphasised that Naxalites lack specific demands, instead aiming to form a government through violent means, at gunpoint in Chhattisgarh.

"Protests occur all over the world and in countries on certain demands, and the government fulfils them if they come under constitutional limitations. There is nothing in it. PM Modi had also made a farmers' law which was good for them, but the government repealed it because farmers wanted to do it so. But in Chhattisgarh, what are the...