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Incidents
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January 3
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The NTSZC of CPI-Maoist has given
a call for bandh in Telangana Region expressing apprehensions
over the death of Telangana Praja Front president Akula Bhoomaiah
in a road accident in the city a few days ago.
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January 8 |
CPI-Maoist suffered a major blow
when the secretary of the DKSZC Gumudavelli Venkatakrishna Prasad
alias Gudsa Usendi, who was considered a member of the
party's top think tank, surrendered before the Police. Prasad
and his wife Raji gave themselves up reportedly on health grounds
to the anti-Maoist SIB of the Andhra Pradesh Police.
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January 10 |
Senior CPI-Maoist leader GVK Prasad
alias Gudsa Usendi surrendered before Andhra Pradesh Police after
taking due permission from CPI-Maoist chief Ganapathy and was
allowed to go unharmed in view of his seniority and loyalty to
the party.
Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar
Shinde welcomed the surrender of Gudsa Usendi, a top CPI-Maoist
leader, saying other Maoist leaders should also follow his example.
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January 12 |
The idea of Janathana Sarkar
born out of the concept of Naxalbari movement in West Bengal in
the 1960s would be popularised across the country by songs, literature
and peoples' movements, said Viplava Rachaitala Sangham (Virasam)
leader G. Kalyan Rao in Warrangal District of Andhra Pradesh.
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January 15 |
A 35-year-old man, believed to
be a SPO of Chhattisgarh Police, was stabbed to death by suspected
militia members of the CPI-Moist during a cockfighting event near
Kommanapalli village in Dummugudem mandal in Khammam District
of Andhra Pradesh.
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January 18 |
The Panchayat (local bodies)
elections in the three mandals of Visakhapatnam District of Andhra
Pradesh, which could not be held in July-August 2013 due to the
CPI-Maoist threat, went off peacefully.
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January 19 |
Senior leader of the CPI-Maoist
G.V.K. Prasad alias Gudsa Usendi has said that a combination
of reasons, ranging from 'ideological' differences to health concerns,
compelled him to leave the party.
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January 20 |
Surrendered CPI-Maoist leader
Gumudavelli Venkatakrishna Prasad alias Gudsa Usendi feels
the time has come for the CPI-Maoist to reshape its strategies
and course of action failing which the party will continue to
suffer reverses.
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January 24 |
CPI-Maoist leader and Spokesperson
of 'Dandakaranya special zonal committee' GVK Prasad alias
Gudsa Usendi has identified the attackers who carried out the
Darbha massacre on May 25, 2013, killing the top Congress leaders
in Chhattisgarh.
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January 28 |
Twenty armed cadres of the CPI-Maoist
accompanied by 50 militia members triggered blasts at two coffee
pulping units and a godown of the Andhra Pradesh Forest Development
Corporation's coffee pulping yard at Chapagedda in GK Veedhi mandal
in Visakhapatnam District.
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February 1 |
Suspected members of the CPI-Maoist
set ablaze a generator, transmission equipment and other apparatus
at a cell phone tower of a private cellular company, at Pedaarlagudem
in Dummugudem mandal in Khammam District.
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February 5 |
A CPI-Maoist cadre, Seetha Narasimhulu
alias Johny Salam alias Janardhan, native of Damlonipally
village in Kondapaka mandal in Medak District, surrendered
before the Police in the District headquarters.
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February 7 |
Three CPI-Maoist cadres, two from
Prakasam District and one from neighbouring Chhattisgarh State,
surrendered before the Police in Ongole in Prakasam District due
to ailment besides being disillusioned by the extremist movement.
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February 17 |
Twenty one militia members
of the CPI-Maoist, including a woman, surrendered before the Vishakhapatnam
District, SP Vikram Jeet Duggal following the arrest of five militia
'commanders' from the Agency area during a combine operation.
Duggal admitted that migration
from Chhattisgarh was on the rise. We are verifying as to why
the tribal people were migrating. At present, the situation "is
not alarming". He expressed the view that the protests by tribal
people seeking closure of 'police outposts' was 'not correct'.
It was the duty of the Police to protect the people.
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February 25 |
CPI-Maoist cadres killed an elected
sarpanch of Balapam panchayat under Chintapalli mandal
in Visakhapatnam District for contesting the elections against
their order.
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February 27 |
A squad member of the Korukonda
'area committee' of the CPI- Maoist and five militia members of
the party surrendered before Visakha Rural Police in Visakhapatnam
District.
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March 8 |
Kovasi Satyam alias Jagadeesh
(25), a member of CPI-Maoist Sabari Area Committee, surrendered
before Bhadrachalam ASP N Prakash Reddy in the Khammam town of
Khammam District.
Eighteen militia members of the
CPI-Maoist, who were involved in the blasting of coffee pulping
units of the Andhra Pradesh Forest Development Corporation at
Chapagedda in GK Veedhi mandal in Vishakhapatnam District
on January 28, surrendered to Superintendent of Police Vikram
Jeet Duggal in Vishakhapatnam.
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March 10 |
A Kommu Koya (tribal) dance troupe
organiser Patra Mutyam (55), an activist of the CPI-Marxist, was
allegedly shot dead by suspected cadres of CPI-Maoist at the remote
Tummala village in Chintur mandal of Khammam District.
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March 14 |
An area committee member of the
CPI-Maoist Galikonda area committee, Janni Mohana Rao, who carried
a reward of INR 100,000 on his head, surrendered before Visakhapatnam
(Rural) Superintendent of Police Vikram Jeet.
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March 27 |
Four militia members of CPI-Maoist
surrendered before Assistant Superintendent of Police of Pader
in Visakhapatnam District.
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March 30 |
Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres put
up wall posters at Chinamidisileru village in Charla mandal
in Khammam District in the early hours of March 30 urging people
to boycott the upcoming local body and general elections.
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April 2 |
A bunch of wall-posters, written
in the name of CPI-Maoist Venkatapuram 'area committee', surfaced
near Suraveedu and Vijayapuri colony in Venkatapuram mandal
of Khammam District.
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April 3 |
In a major anti-CPI-Maoist operation
conducted along the Andhra-Chhattisgarh border in Khammam District,
the CRPF arrested six suspected Maoists and seized over 1,000
booby traps and shrapnel aimed to ambush SFs.
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April 9 |
Suspected cadres of the CPI-Maoist
set ablaze a mobile phone tower of a private telecom company at
Gannavaram village in Bhadrachalam mandal in Khammam District.
The Police arrested seven persons,
including an active cadre of the CPI-Maoist in Chintapalli mandal
in Visakhapatnam District. The Maoist cadre has been identified
as Gabilingi Appa Rao, head of the panchayat committee of the
CPI-Maoist of Balapam village in Chintapalli mandal.
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April 20 |
A special Police team arrested
a CPI-Maoist squad member, an armed militia member, and three
militia members in two separate incidents in Visakhapatnam District.
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April 22 |
Suspected CPI-Maoist cadres killed
a 30-year-old tribal man, identified as Nupa Shiva, at Angarigudem,
a tribal settlement under Karakagudem Police Station limits in
Pinapaka mandal of Khammam District.
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April 26 |
An exchange of fire took place
between the Police and the CPI-Maoist cadres near Chintaguppa
village in Dummugudem mandal in Khammam District.
Chintur Police of Andhra Pradesh
arrested four Maoist militia members, including two militia 'commanders',
in the forest area near Bandirevu village, Mr Reddy said. Maoist
posters were recovered from their possession.
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April 29 |
IG of Police, South-West Range,
Yashwant Jethwa, clarified that the woman cadre of CPI-Maoist,
Tulsi Madangi had surrendered before the Police and not arrested
as claimed by the BSF on April 28.
Marri Dasu, a CPI-Maoist 'militia'
from Annavaram area of Garimanda village under Boodaralla area
surrendered before ASP Vishal Gunni at Narsipatnam in Visakhapatnam
District.
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April 30 |
13 CPI-Maoist cadres who were
allegedly involved in the attack on villagers of Saagulu at Lakkavaram
in Chintapalli mandal (administrative unit) on February
19, 2013 in which three persons were killed, surrendered before
Visakhapatnam SP Vikram Jeet Duggal at Narsipatnam in Vishakhapatnam
District.
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May 5 |
Two CPI-Maoist action team members
along with two dalam members and six members of local militia
were arrested by the District Police from a place between Pedabayulu
and Paderu in Visakhapatnam District and thwarted their plan to
disrupt the elections to be held on May 7.
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May 6 |
Addressing a press conference
Andhra Pradesh DGP B. Prasada Rao said a close watch was being
maintained on Maoists as the Maoists had called upon people to
boycott polls.
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May 7 |
A group of persons, suspected
to be CPI-Maoist militia, set ablaze two EVMs and partially burnt
a vehicle allotted for the polling staff at Palakajeedi village
polling station in Koyyuru mandal in Visakhapatnam District.
Around 20 to 30 people raided the polling station around 2 pm
and took away the EVMs and set them on fire and also set on fire
the Route Officer's vehicle.
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May 12
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The elite anti-Naxal force of
Andhra Pradesh, Greyhounds, which won laurels for its successful
operations in CPI-Maoist-affected areas, is being bifurcated.
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May 18
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Three IEDs suspected to be placed
by the CPI-Maoist cadres were recovered by the BSF personnel on
a road passing through Machkund Hydro Power Station on the Andhra
Orissa Border (AOB) in Vishakhapatnam District of Andhra Pradesh.
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May 21 |
The CPI-Maoist cadres allegedly
set afire a cell phone tower of a private telecom company at Kothapalli
village in Dummugudem mandal in Khammam District.
DGP B. Prasada Rao said 'Greyhounds'-
the elite anti-Naxal Police of Andhra Pradesh-will extend
their services to both Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states after
the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh state for three years.
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May 24 |
Bellampally sub-division Police
unearthed an old CPI-Maoist dump from the forest near Venkatapur
village under Devapur Police Station limits in Kasipet mandal
in Adilabad District.
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May 28 |
The Nalgonda Police stumbled upon
a CPI-Maoist dump kept in a cave located on a hill near Guntala
Tanda tribal hamlet in Chandampet mandal of Nalgonda District.
The Visakha Rural Police arrested
three CPI-Maoist cadres, including a woman, at D Chintala Veedhi
and Kamayyapeta in Hukumpeta mandal of Visakha Agency (Visakhapatnam
District) and seized a country-made pistol, even as two others,
Killo Narasinga Rao and Killy Sanyasayya alias Sagar of Chadurumamidi
village surrendered before them.
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June 7 |
Following specific information
about the suspected movement of CPI-Maoist in the neighbouring
Chhattisgarh State along the borders of Karimnagar District, the
Police launched surprise combing operations in the forest areas
of the mandals that fall under Manthani Tehsil.
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June 8 |
Visakhapatnam Rural Police in
an anti-CPI-Maoist operation reportedly arrested Korra Sitanna,
a Maoist of Galikonda Area Committee near GK Veedhi in the Agency
area of Visakhapatnam District.
Police tied banners showing photos
of most wanted terrorists of various banned outfits and Naxalites
with their names at different places at the venue of Andhra Pradesh
Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu's swearing-in function, a
ground opposite Nagarjuna Nagar in Guntur District.
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June 19 |
Three CPI-Maoist cadres, including
Jana Babu Rao alias Ashok (48), district 'central committee
member' of Nallamalla range, Bharathi (38), wife of Ashok and
Vimalakka (35), were killed in an encounter with a Police party
in Nallamalla forest range at Kallagunta village in Yerragondabalem
mandal of Prakasam District near Guntur District border.
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July 3 |
The Andhra Pradesh Government
has sent proposals to the UMHA seeking INR 12 billion for developing
a full-fledged 'Greyhounds', sophisticated anti-Naxal force, training
centre on the lines of the existing one at Premavathipet on Hyderabad's
outskirts.
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July 4 |
Five CPI-Maoist dalam members
surrendered before Visakhapatnam Rural SP, Vikram Jeet Duggal,
on the premises of the Narsipatnam OSD office in Andhra Pradesh.
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July 7 |
Secretary of the CPI-Maoist AOBSZC
Chandramouli termed the death of three Maoist cadres in an exchange
of fire with Police in Nallamalla forests of Guntur District on
June 21, 2014 as a fake encounter.
A mandal coordinator and
village resource person, engaged in collection of data for NREGA,
and sarpanch, of Matham Bheemavaram village were allegedly
detained by the cadres of the Galikonda 'area committee' of the
CPI-Maoist at Jyothulamamidi on the outskirts of M. Bheemavaram
in Koyyuru mandal in Visakhapatanam District. The Maoists
let off the three unharmed but took away a laptop, two biometric
machines and a web camera from the NREGA staff.
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July 17 |
A woman CPI-Maoist cadre, identified
as Vanthala Jhansi alias Kusai (22), carrying INR. 100,000
reward on her head, surrendered before SP Vikram Jeet Duggal in
Visakhapatnam District of Andhra Pradesh.
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July 27 |
The cadres of Korukonda Area Committee
of the CPI-Maoist blew up the pipelines of Essar Company in Chintapalli
mandal in Visakhapatnam District.
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July 29
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A CPI-Maoist cadre, identified
as Mari Arjun (39), surrendered before Narsipatnam Assistant Superintendent
of Police (ASP), Vishal Gunni, in Visakhapatnam District.
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August 12 |
CPI-Maoist influence in the Agency
areas of Visakhapatnam District is not as weak as it is thought
to be and things are not that rosy and they have considerable
presence in the two areas of Galikonda and Korukonda, says SP
Koya Praveen.
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August 21 |
Andhra Pradesh State Government
under the State Public Security Act, 1992 has extended ban on
CPI-Maoist and seven CPI-Maoist backed organisations for one more
year. The organisations are: CPI-Maoist, RDF, RYL, RCS, RSU, SIKASA,
VIKASA and AIRSF.
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August 21 |
A group of around 10 armed CPI-Maoist
cadres reportedly killed a villager, identified as B. Balakrishna
(35) in Killamkota village in G. Madugula mandal (administrative
unit) in Visakhapatnam District.
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August 22 |
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister,
N. Chandrababu Naidu, during a discussion in the State Assembly,
has said there are 83 underground Maoist cadres from Andhra Pradesh
of whom about 61 are operating in the State while the remaining
operate from Chhattisgarh and other States.
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August 23 |
The cadres of the CPI-Maoist reportedly
organised a meeting at Garikabanda village, bordering G. K. Veedhi
and Koyyuru mandal in Visakhapatnam District.
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September 9 |
A militia member of the CPI-Maoist,
identified as Muvvala Ranju, surrendered before the OSD Vishal
Gunni at Narsipatnam in Visakhapatnam District of Andhra Pradesh.
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September 13 |
Suspecting Muvvala Ramesh, a former
CPI-Maoist cadre, as 'Police informer', Maoists killed him in
East Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh. The body of Ramesh was
found at Jangalathota in Y. Ramavaram mandal in the District
bordering Visakhapatnam District. Ramesh was a dalam 'commander'
between 2003 and 2004 and surrendered to the East Godavari Police
in 2005.
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September 14 |
Deputy Chief Minister and Home
Minister N. Chinarajappa said, "There is no Maoist activity whatsoever
in the State (Andhra Pradesh)". "The Police machinery is fully
on alert to prevent any attempts by extremists to revive their
activities in the State," he told reporters in Ongole in Prakasam
District of Andhra Pradesh. "Extremists are making a frantic bid
for existence," he remarked while referring to Maoists killing
a former extremist branding him as a 'Police informer' on the
East Godavari-Visakhapatnam border on September 13.
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September 18 |
'Red alert' has been declared
in Andhra Pradesh, as the CPI-Maoist is gearing up to go 'all
out to' celebrate the party's 10thanniversary in the AOB area
in a big way from September 21.
The CPI-Maoist has conducted its
third public meeting, in the past one month, with the tribals
of Visakha Agency in Andhra Pradesh and threatened the government
with an armed struggle if it did not withdraw its plans to mine
bauxite reserves. Nearly 400 to 500 people from 20 villages attended
the meeting. Sources said that though nearly 60 to 70 Maoists
were present in the area during the meeting, only 15 to 20 armed
cadres were visible at the venue close to the Odisha border. The
nearly two and half hour meeting was addressed by a senior leader
of the Galikonda 'area committee', who accused Andhra Pradesh
CM of trying to benefit MNCs through bauxite mining.
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October 19 |
'A group of irate tribals lynched
three CPI-Maoist cadres, after the Maoists killed one of their
fellow villagers, Gemmeli Sanjeeva Rao, at Veeravaram village
in Chintapalli mandal of Visakhapatnam District of Andhra
Pradesh. The dead Maoists were identified as 'district committee
member' Sindri China Ranga Rao alias Sarat, Palasa Gangapati
and Korra Nageswara Rao, both members of Maoist militia squad.
A group of 30 to 40 Maoists came to Veeravaram village to kill
Sanjeeva Rao, a former Maoist and his friend Satyanarayana alias
Simhachalam. Maoists suspected them of being 'Police informers'.
A group of 10 Maoists caught hold of Sanjeeva Rao and Simhachalam
when they were returning to Boddalaveedhi and killed Rao incurring
the wrath of the villagers. The villagers attacked the Maoists
killing three of them on the spot.
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October 20 |
'Three CPI-Maoist cadres, identified
as Dhaniram Gond (22), Mangal Salaam (26) and Kumarsingh Korram
(28), surrendered in Kondagaon District of Chhattisgarh. "The
cadres surrendered before senior police officials citing high-handedness
of senior cadres, particularly those from Andhra Pradesh as well
as sexual exploitation of women and girls by them," Kondagaon
ASP Surjit Atri said.
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October 27 |
A CPI-Maoist 'militia' member,
carrying a reward of INR 100,000 on his head, was arrested from
Visakhapatnam District of Andhra Pradesh. "Keesava Rao alias Balabadrudu
was arrested by G.K. Veedi Police," said Vishal Gunni, OSD, Narsipatnam.
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October 29 |
A group of 20-30 tribals staged
protests outside APCLC Visakha unit President T Srirammurthy's
house at Gajuwaka, as well as APCLC members G Raghuram's house
at Mangapuram Colony near Kalabharathi Auditorium and A Annapoorna's
house at Arilova in Visakhapatnam District of Andhra Pradesh protesting
the alleged support to Maoists by civil rights activists. The
tribals belonged to Veeravaram village and other parts of GK Veedhi
mandal of Visakhapatnam District.
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October 30 |
Bandh in Visakha Agency of Andhra
Pradesh area, for which the CPI-Maoist had given a call in protest
against the killing of three of its cadres near Korukonda in Vishakhapatnam
District on October 19, was partial except in a few panchayats.
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November 3 |
Two CPI-Maoist cadres, identified
as Pangi Sathi Babu and Korra Venkat Rao of Galikonda dalam
of the CPI-Maoist, surrendered before ASP Vijaya Rao in Rampachodavaram
mandal in East Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh. The
surrendered duos were natives of Yendakota village under Koyyuru
mandal in Visakhapatnam District. They were involved in the killing
of a dalam 'commander' of the same group a couple of months
ago at Gangala Thota area in Yendakota mandal, the ASP
added.
The Korukonda area committee of
the CPI-Maoist organised a meeting on the AOB, to 'pay homage'
to two of its members who were killed by people near Korukonda
shandy on October 19. According to reports, secretary of Korukonda
area committee Vijayalakshmi, who addressed the meeting with other
leaders of the party, claimed that the killing was the handiwork
of the Police and the party would not spare the 19 persons it
had identified for the attack and killing of its members. More
than 2,000 people had reportedly attended the meeting which was
held on the border abutting Munchingput mandal in Visakhapatnam
District of Andhra Pradesh. The SATP, has earlier, reported that
three Maoists were killed in the incident.
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November 6 |
The Visakha Rural Police of Andhra
Pradesh arrested four people, including an Associate Professor
of Andhra University's Telugu Department, for allegedly supplying
explosive material to CPI-Maoist. The arrested were identified
as Associate Professor Jarra Appa Rao (44), Ganapatiraju Subba
Raju, Varupari Prasad and Kovvuru Jagadesh. The Police seized
300 kg of ammonium nitrate (packed in six bags), 500 EDs, 100
empty EDs and a car from the possession of two of those arrested.
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November 8 |
47 CPI-Maoist sympathisers have
surrendered before Andhra Pradesh Police at Rampachodavaram in
East Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh. All of them fall in
the age bracket of 30-50 years, said ASP, Vijaya Rama Rao. The
Officer added that all Maoist sympathisers were active in the
District between 2005 and 2008.
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November 13 |
The East Godavari District Police
of Andhra Pradesh arrested 13 members of the CPI-Maoist 'militia',
including two accused in the murder case of Muvvala Satish, a
surrendered Maoist. The Police also recovered a dump consisting
of landmine, detonators, rifle rounds and rod pieces near Donkarayi
mandal. Speaking to the media at Kakinada, SP M. Ravi Prakash
told that there was a spurt in the movement of Maoists in East
Godavari and Visakhapatnam Districts following the bifurcation
of the State.
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November 19 |
Over five dozen tribal people,
hailing from Visakhapatnam District in Andhra Pradesh, holding
placards landed at the residence of social activist and revolutionary
poet Vara Vara Rao near Ashok Nagar, and shouted slogans requesting
him to save their lives from attacks from the CPI-Maoist. Rao,
however, was not at his residence.
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November 27 |
Ahead of the PLGA week commencing
on December 2, the CPI-Maoist held a meeting on the border with
Odisha in Visakhapatnam District of Andhra Pradesh, to pay homage
to its District committee member Sharath and militia member P.
Ganapathi who were killed in an attack by the people near Korukonda
shandy on October 19 and repeated its warning that it would not
spare Simhachalam who escaped from the Maoist attack and 19 villagers
who attacked the party men at the behest of the Police. Charging
SP Koya Praveen with implementing a Salwa Judum type operation
in the Agency, he said he would meet the fate met by Salwa Judum
leader Mahendra Karma. Kailasam demanded withdrawal of proposal
for creation of village protection force.
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November 28 |
SP Koya Praveen, Visakhapatnam
District of Andhra Pradesh, strongly contested the CPI-Maoist
allegation that the Police was mobilising the Girijans in the
interior parts of the Agency area for a Salwa Judum type
of operation against the Maoists. Addressing media in Visakhapatnam,
he said that the news reports published in various dailies, were
based on a press communication released by the Maoists and it
was unfounded.
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December 5 |
Cadres of the CPI-Maoist set off two landmines
near Nakkapalli in GK Veedhi mandal (administrative unit)
in Visakha Agency area (Vishakhapatnam district) in Andhra Pradesh.
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December 11 |
Pamphlets and posters in the name of CPI-Maoist
appeared in Vishakhapatnam Agency of Andhra Pradesh.
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December 12 |
The Andhra Pradesh State Government has reconstituted
a high-powered Cabinet Sub-committee for taking top level decisions
relating to Naxalite-problems in the State.
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December 22 |
The Andhra Pradesh Police Department is desperately
looking for foot soldiers and has submitted a proposal to recruit
8,000 Constables, State DGP JV Ramudu said.
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December 29 |
Thirteen tribal people of Pega village in Chintur
mandal in East Godavari District were feared abducted by
the CPI-Maoist cadres of the Andhra-Orissa Border committee.
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December 31 |
Over half a dozen tribal people, who were reportedly
abducted by suspected cadres of the CPI-Maoist from Pega village
in Chintur mandal in East Godavari District in the night
of December 27, returned home much to the relief of their anxious
family members.
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