After decades of bloodshed, is India winning its war against Maoists? Former prime minister Manmohan Singh had described the insurgency as India's "greatest internal security threat". The Maoist movement - officially known as Left-Wing Extremism (LWE) - took formal shape in 2004 with the merger of key Marxist-Leninist groups into the CPI (Maoist). "At its core, the Maoist movement was an ideological struggle - but that ideology has lost traction, especially among the younger generation. However, it acknowledges a slight rise in security force casualties in 2023 compared to 2022, attributed to intensified operations in core Maoist areas.