India has claimed that its nuclear assets are not under the threat of extreme left-wing Naxal rebels who have staged a series of high-profile attacks against government forces and were suspected to have sabotaged a passenger train recently, according to local daily The Hindu on Sunday.
Indian National Security Adviser Shiv Shankar Menon told participants at an international conference in Singapore on Saturday that they "don't need to worry about" the rebels affecting the security of India's nuclear assets, according to the daily, Xinhua reported.
He told the 9th Asia Security Summit, being organized by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, that he was "holding out the assurance as an insider with some knowledge of this issue", when answering questions on the likely threat by the rebels on India's nuclear-asset security, said the report.