After the death of senior-most female Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) leader Nirmala alias Narmada Didi in a Maharashtra prison, Naxals [Left Wing Extremists, LWEs] have announced the Dandakaranya bandh (general shut down strike) closure and shutting down all activities on April 25, reports Free Press Journal on April 22. The announcement from the Maoists has put the Security Forces (SFs) on the alert mode in Bastar. The 62-year-old Nirmala, who served as an active member of the Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee (DKSZC) for 42 years, died while battling for her life on April 9 in a prison in Maharashtra. Maoist ‘spokesperson’ Mangali said in a press note that Nirmala was fallen sick in 2018 and got arrested by Police while she was getting treatment in a hospital in Hyderabad of Telangana in 2019. The Maoist ‘spokesperson’ alleged that she had been implicated in more than 100 false cases and that the Government had put a bounty of INR 2.5 million on her head.