As many as 210 Maoist cadres, including one Central Committee member, surrendered before authorities in Chhattisgarh’s Jagdalpur on Friday, making it the largest mass surrender in the history of anti-Maoist operations in the state.

With this, a total of 238 Maoists have quit the path of violence and joined the mainstream in the state in the last three days as 28 others had surrendered on Wednesday. Hailing the development, Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai said it was a historic day not only for Bastar but for Chhattisgarh and the entire nation.