"I have heard that my name tops their hit-list. If they are brave enough let them come. I am not afraid of them. Nothing can stop me from visiting junglemahal," Banerjee told a public rally here.
"I will visit junglemahal a thousand times to carry on the development process," she said dubbing Maoists as cowards who took advantage of darkness of the night to kill people.
Urging people to resist the Maoists so that they could not disturb peace, she said, "We have recruited many people in junglemahal in the police force, in the civic police and village police."
"I have ordered the police administration to build a memorial in honour of those EFR jawans who lost their lives in the line of duty after being attacked by Maoists," she said.
A community training centre would also come up.
The state government would take up a tourism project spread over Goaltore, Silda and other areas of the district to attract more tourists to junglemahal for its economic development, she added.
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