Naxals looking for revival amid COVID-19 distraction
   Date :07-Aug-2020

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By Ramesh Kallepelli ;
 
CHANDRAPUR,
 
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented health emergency. But with the administrative machinery busy fighting the health crisis, the Naxal movement is slowly gaining momentum in Chandrapur district as well as adjoining Telangana. Highly placed sources in the Police Department said that officials of district administration and police department are busy with lockdown related duties and taking advantage of this, the outlaws have started reviving their near dead groups since last one month. Naxals from Telanagana had visited Rajura tehsil and held meetings with villagers in Amrutguda, claimed sources. Further CPI (Maoist) has formed a state committee by electing Haribhushan alias Yapa Narayan as secretary of the committee in Telangana state, it was further informed.
 
The new state committee having seven members has started re-establishment process in Telangana with new strategy. CPI (Maoist) has also declared its 12 area committees in Telanagana that will work under the supervision of Pullur Prasad Rao, a member of the Central Committee of the party. “Around 12 Naxals had visited Amrutguda, exact border to Telangana near Wirur in Rajura tehsil and held meeting with villagers. Police of Telanagana and Maharashtra had exchanged crucial information about the movement. 
 
Telangana Police begins combing operations in border districts Telangana Police has already launched combing operations under the supervision of State DGP M Mahender Reddy, who had been touring the three districts of Mancherial, Kumaram Bheem-Asifabad and Mulugu districts, bordering Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh. This is from where the maoists usually enter Telangana. Meanwhile, a Naxal courier was arrested by Telangana cops recently.
 
Apart from this, Telangana Police had released posters across the border areas of these districts along with the names of top maoist leaders who have been actively leading 12 area committees in Telangana. Peddapalli area committee, covering Jayashankar Bhupalpally, Mahabubabad and Warangal (rural) districts, is led by Kankanala Raji Reddy; Eturnagaram Mahadevpur area committee by Reena; Venkatapuram-Vajedu area committee by Ungi, Yellandu-Narsampet area committee by Mangu; Mancherial-Kumaram Bheem area committee is led by Mailarapu Adelu alias Bhaskar; Mangi area committee led by Lingamma; Indravelli area committee by Warghese; Chennur-Sirpur area committee by Narasimha Rao; Charla-Sabari area committee by Sammakka alias Sarada; Manugu area committee by Rasool; Bhadradri Kothagudem-East Godavari divisional committee by Sambaiah; and Telangana action committee led by Bade Chokka Rao alias Damodar, informed sources.