New Delhi, May 26 -- The winters in 2014 had waned and Manmohan Singh too was lumbering towards at the fag-end of a decade-long reign as the prime minister of India. Like a whirlwind, Bharatiya Janata Party's 'prime ministerial' candidate, Narendra Modi, was poised to storm the portals of power in Delhi.

Before officially relinquishing his post, the suave and mild-mannered Singh invited a select group of editors to a breakfast meeting.

A question popped up during the general conversation to list three important issues that remained unfulfilled during his tenure. One of the three was Maoist Insurgency.

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