Key Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) leaders Azad and Raji Reddy alias Venkatesh are willing to surrender and join the social mainstream due to health problems, Director General of Police (DGP), M Mahendar Reddy said on September 17, adding that the CPI-Maoist party leadership, however, is not allowing them to surrender, reports Telangana Today. Covid-19 pandemic, which has affected the entire world, also left the Maoist party in crisis due to lack of proper healthcare facilities, he said, adding that Azad and Raji Reddy’s health condition had at one time deteriorated but they recovered subsequently. The cadre was also caught in a state of disappointment in the wake of Covid and various diseases in forest and the best example was that of Telangana State Secretary Haribhushan alias Yapa Narayana who died of Covid. “Maoist leaders are willing to come out of the party and join the social mainstream but the leadership is sending armed dalams and threatening them not to surrender,” Mahender Reddy said, addressing a press conference to announce the surrender of Haribushan’s wife Jajjeri Samakka alias Sharadakka. “It’s an appeal to Maoists to join the mainstream so that they can get proper treatment along with rehabilitation package from the State government,” he said, adding, “You (Maoists) could either die in an encounter or in an exchange of fire if you continue in the party or die of health issue. For the last 40 years, their ideology of power through the barrel of the gun did not yield any result. Please think of joining the mainstream so that you can stay with your families and friends.”
Meanwhile, surrendered senior Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) leader Jajjeri Samakka alias Sharadakka (45), who surrendered in Hyderabad District of Telangana on September 17, appealed to the Maoist cadres that 'there is no reason to continue the guerilla warfare and mindless violence' by them as people are getting enlightened and no more prepared to tolerate it, reports UNI. Sharada said that her husband Yapa Narayana alias Haribhushan, ‘Central Committee’ (CC) Member and Telangana State Committee ‘secretary’, who recently succumbed to Covid-19, was an ardent Maoist leader and believer of revolutionary ideology. She said that she has seen him (husband Haribhushan) from close quarters struggle throughout his life to usher in the New Democratic Revolution and establish peoples’ government through protracted armed struggle. Director General of Police (DGP), M Mahendar Reddy said that the 45-year-old senior Maoist realized that under such circumstances, there are no grounds for the armed outfit to pursue the revolutionary movement in the light of digital revolution coupled with the welfare oriented and people friendly policies of the government. The Maoist, who surrendered due to lack of faith in CPI-Maoist ideology and as well as health problems and her husband’s death, appealed to the Maoist cadres to give up arms and join the mainstream, DGP added.