Wednesday, 4 September 2013

Interstate Operations Teams of Andhra Pradesh SIB to hunt down the surviving top cadres of CPI Maoists

Udumula Sudhakar Reddy

State Special Intelligence Branch has set up two Interstate
Operations teams to hunt down the top cadres of Maoists. The interstate operations are
headed by an Additional SP rank official. One of the ISO teams will be focusing on
Dandakaranya and the other in the rest of the country.
With intensified operations by AP police the Maoist movement is restricted only to
Central region of the country. Sources said that the operations are aimed at neutralizing
the surviving 15 central committee members of CPI Maoists. Out of 45 CC members the
number have now come down to 15 as others were either killed in exchange of fire or
arrested. There was no new expansion of central committee in the recent times.
Maoist cadres  are confined only to Central Region. Dankaranya Special Zonal Committee
that has strong hold in three districts of Chattisgarh and runs Janathan Sarkar has
around 9514 underground cadres including the armed militia. DKSZC is the only biggest
unit now existing in the country and is lead by Ravula Srinivas alias Ramanna.
Recruitments have stopped after Salwa Judum has been closed. “The recruitment has dropped
drastically. Salwa Judum’s alleged atrocities were the driving force earlier and now
there is no motive for the locals,”
Sources said due to the simmering division between local and non local Maoist cadres in
Dandakaranya the locals were made commanders of two battalions including the latest
second battalion formed in DK.
In Bihar Jharkand Special Zonal Committee agencies found that around 5335 underground
cadres for the left wing extremist group and it has 62 squads. Followed by it is Andhra
Oissa Border, Maharasthra and Orissa committees.
North Telangana committee has only 10 squads with 82 armed Maoists and 17 members of
special guerrilla squad and around 10 armed militia taking the underground cadres to 109.
A source said ,”The Bihari cadres want someone from erstwhile Maoist Communist Centre (it
was merged with Peoples war to form CPI Maoist) to be head of Central Committee after
Muppala Laxman Rao alias Ganapathi. Actually Katakam Sudharshan alias Anand was the most
capable of the top cadres and Nambala Keshav Rao is heading central military commission,”
 Out of 15 central committee members except two to three all are from Andhra Pradesh.

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