While addressing the party workers during the swearing-in ceremony of new BJP President Nitin Nabin, Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi raised concerns over the growing influence of urban Naxalism, saying it has increasingly acquired international dimensions and continues to work against India, news agency ANI reported.

"Another major challenge is urban Naxalism. The scope of urban Naxalism is becoming international. If they tweet something positive about Modi even once or twice a year, or say something positive on TV, or write something positive in a newspaper, some journalists humiliate them so much that they are hounded and made untouchable. They are silenced so that they can never speak again. This is the method of urban Naxalism," he said at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters in New Delhi.