Andhra Pradesh (Maoist Insurgency): Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2012

The Director General of Police V. Dinesh Reddy on January 5 said heavy security cover would be provided to facilitate expeditious completion of various road works taken up under the Integrated Action Plan (IAP) for the areas affected by Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres, reports The Hindu. Read less...

The blasting of the Forest Department Office and check-post at Lothugedda in Vishakhapatnam District by members of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) around midnight of January 7 is seen as an attempt by the Maoists to make their presence felt in the region, reports The Hindu. The Maoists have demanded that the Andhra Pradesh Forest Development Corporation (APFDC) hand over the coffee plantations to tribals and wanted lifting of cases against tribals of Balapalam village. They appealed to the tribals to oppose bauxite mining in the Agency. It is said that around 50 Maoists belonging to the Korukonda Dalam (action squad) and their sympathisers participated in the blast. Read less...

The Hindu reports that while the training programme for first time MLAs and MLCs in Visakha Agency was coming to an end on January 11, cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) pasted posters at Chowdupalli in Chintapalli mandal (administrative unit) of Visakhapatnam District in the early hours of January 11 demanding the people's representatives to pass a resolution against mining of bauxite in the Agency. The posters appeared as the officials and the Police were preparing to receive Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy at G.K. Veedhi mandal to call on Tribal Welfare Minister P. Balaraju, whose mother passed away four days ago. The Maoists also warned the informers to mend their ways. Read less...

A former Maoist female cadre, Veeramalla Pushpa (35), was found dead at her residence in Ramanthapur in Hyderabad under the Uppal Police limits on January 13, reported Ibn Live. Pushpa's husband Ganesh Babu, who was said to be a Maoist sympathiser, had been killed around three years ago. Pushpa was an accused in the case and investigators believe her murder now could be connected to her husband's death. Read less...

Nune Narasimha Reddy alias Ganganna, a key Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) leader and State Committee member, was reportedly arrested by special party Police teams at Old Guntur on January 17, reports The Hindu . Ganganna, who has been in judicial remand for the last one-and-a-half years in the District jail, was released on January 17. He is wanted in more than 10 cases registered in Guntur and Prakasam Districts. Ganganna is believed to have played a key role in talks with the Government during 2004. Read less...

The Times of India reports that the Centre on January 19 sanctioned INR 1.8 billion for six more Districts in Andhra Pradesh under the Integrated Action Plan (IAP) for selected tribal and backward Districts as they try to cope with the Maoist menace. The member-secretary of the Planning Commission, Sudha Pillai, in a message to the chief secretary informed that Visakhapatnam, East Godavari, Warangal, Karimnagar, Srikakulam and Vizianagaram have been included under the IAP with INR 1.80 billion (INR 300 million per District ) to be released for the year 2011-12. Read less...