By U Sudhakar Reddy
Hyderabad : Maoists have begun to regroup in North Telangana with the cadres including North Telangana zonal committee member Ganesh returning from Chhattisgarh. They have begun targeting the police information network mostly comprising former Naxals. Saturday’s attack in Karimnagar in which three alleged police informers were killed is a part of this operation.
The killings came not long after the police in Chhattisgarh cautioned that Andhra Pradesh’s success against the Maoists may be temporary. A senior police official told this correspondent: "There are 69 underground cadre in Karimnagar. All of them had dispersed and are working in other states."
"Six Maoists were here (in the district). For Saturday’s attack Maoists regrouped under the leadership of Ganesh," he said. After severe setbacks in their erstwhile strongholds, the Maoists clubbed all the committees to form the Karimnagar-Warangal-Khammam district committee. Ganesh is the secretary of this committee. Committee member Damodar alias B. Chokka Rao, Arunakka of the Mahadevpur local squad and 18 others were involved in the Karimnagar attack.
This is the largest congregation of Maoists in North Telangana after the reduction of violence in the past two years. "This is an alarming attack. It is a wake-up call," said a police official.
Hyderabad : Maoists have begun to regroup in North Telangana with the cadres including North Telangana zonal committee member Ganesh returning from Chhattisgarh. They have begun targeting the police information network mostly comprising former Naxals. Saturday’s attack in Karimnagar in which three alleged police informers were killed is a part of this operation.
The killings came not long after the police in Chhattisgarh cautioned that Andhra Pradesh’s success against the Maoists may be temporary. A senior police official told this correspondent: "There are 69 underground cadre in Karimnagar. All of them had dispersed and are working in other states."
"Six Maoists were here (in the district). For Saturday’s attack Maoists regrouped under the leadership of Ganesh," he said. After severe setbacks in their erstwhile strongholds, the Maoists clubbed all the committees to form the Karimnagar-Warangal-Khammam district committee. Ganesh is the secretary of this committee. Committee member Damodar alias B. Chokka Rao, Arunakka of the Mahadevpur local squad and 18 others were involved in the Karimnagar attack.
This is the largest congregation of Maoists in North Telangana after the reduction of violence in the past two years. "This is an alarming attack. It is a wake-up call," said a police official.
(Published in Deccan Chronicle on January 28 2008)
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