Hyderabad: The give up of senior Naxal chief Mallojula Venugopal Rao, thought-about one of the crucial influential strategists within the Maoist organisation, is a “extreme” setback for the Maoist ideology, a senior Telangana police official mentioned on Tuesday.
Rao, alias Bhupathi, a local of Telangana and a member of the proscribed Communist Get together of India (Maoist)’s central committee and Politburo, surrendered earlier than police together with 60 different cadres in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district on Monday.
Bounty of Rs 6 cr on Venugopal
A bounty of Rs 6 crore was introduced by the authorities for his arrest.
The Telangana police officer mentioned Rao might have been the CPI (Maoist) Common Secretary after Nambala Keshav Rao alias Basavaraju was killed by safety forces in Chhattisgarh on Might 21.
“He (Venugopal) is likely one of the backbones of the CPI (Maoist), and he might have been the Common Secretary of CPI (Maoist) in regular circumstances.
“However, after the dying of Basavaraju, they weren’t able to regroup and choose another person to be the final secretary. Within the meantime, variations occurred, and he vehemently took a line that this isn’t the time to tackle the federal government forces anymore, and it’s time to stop the struggle for a while,” the official informed PTI.
The Maoist chief had mentioned that the highest management of the proscribed organisation was in favour of ceasing the armed wrestle and going for talks or revisiting their whole technique, based on the official.
“That sort of an individual with such seniority popping out (give up) not due to any well being or every other purpose, however due to ideological causes, and the struggle technique reveals a really distinct and clear failure of the occasion’s ideology in addition to ways.
“There could also be (another) folks, however I don’t suppose they are going to maintain the motion or ideology anymore. It’s a extreme setback for the Maoist ideology,” he mentioned.
The official additional mentioned the opposite part of the banned organisation, which is in favour of continuous the armed wrestle, will weaken additional.
“What sort of new wrestle the opposite faction will take up and the way they’re going to revisit their technique is but to be seen,” he mentioned.
Venugopal supervised platoon operations alongside Maharashtra-Chattisgarh border: Officers
In line with sources, Venugopal had lengthy supervised platoon operations of Naxal rebels alongside the Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh border. Nonetheless, rising variations between him and the highest Naxal management within the current months led to an inside battle, they mentioned.
In line with the Telangana police, Bhupathi known as for “briefly renouncing armed wrestle” and issued an oral and written assertion on August 15 claiming they had been prepared for a ceasefire.
He issued one other assertion in September stating that it (laying down arms) was mentioned within the central committee and Politburo, and determined accordingly, even earlier than Basavaraju was killed.
Bhupathi’s name for “laying down arms” gained help with the north sub-zonal and west sub-zonal Bureau of the CPI (Maoist), apart from the Maad division committee of Maoists.
He had claimed that the armed wrestle failed and appealed for a shift in direction of peace and dialogue, citing diminishing public help and the lack of tons of of cadres.
His stand was met with resistance from different senior cadres who determined to proceed the struggle below one other chief, sources mentioned.
Beneath strain from the central Naxal management, he finally agreed to put down arms, introduced his exit from the outfit, and surrendered together with his followers earlier than the Gadchiroli police, they mentioned.
