Andhra Pradesh (Maoist Insurgency): Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2014

The North Telangana Special Zonal Committee (NTSZC) of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) has given a call for bandh (general shutdown strike) in Telangana Region on January 3 expressing apprehensions over the death of Telangana Praja Front president Akula Bhoomaiah in a road accident in the city a few days ago, reports The Hindu. The committee, in a press release, raised several doubts about the fatal accident of Bhoomaiah, who was a prominent leader of the Democratic Teachers Federation, which was alleged to have links with extremist organisations, particularly the erstwhile People’s War Group. Read less...

Senior Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) leader GVK Prasad alias Gudsa Usendi surrendered before Andhra Pradesh Police after taking due permission from CPI-Maoist chief Ganapathy and was allowed to go unharmed in view of his seniority and loyalty to the party, reports The Times of India on January 11. However, several others who attempted to surrender were allegedly killed. A Union Ministry of Home Affairs (UMHA) source said "He has surrendered because of failing health and being unable to continue the struggle. He has done so after taking due permission from the leadership. Though he must have been discouraged, he was allowed to go unharmed because of his seniority and the three-decade long service that he gave the party. Many others in the lower rung have met fatal ends to such decisions". Read less...

Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on January 10 welcomed the surrender of Gudsa Usendi saying other Maoist leaders should also follow his example, reports dnaindia.com. Minister Shinde said "Gumudavelli Venkatakrishna Prasad, alias Gudsa Usendi, an important leader of Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI), has surrendered before Andhra Pradesh Police. I welcome his decision to surrender, and also would like to appeal to other senior cadres to follow this example." He further said "The CPI (Maoist) should give up their arms struggle and join the mainstream. All those who have surrendered will be treated well as per the Surrender and Rehabilitation Policy of the government." Read less...

The idea of Janathana Sarkar (Peoples Government) born out of the concept of Naxalbari movement in West Bengal in the 1960s would be popularised across the country by songs, literature and peoples’ movements, said Viplava Rachaitala Sangham (Virasam) leader G. Kalyan Rao in Warrangal District on January 12, reports The Hindu. Addressing the second day of the 24 State Conference of The Revolutionary Poets Association (Virasam), he said the Maoist party is able to give smooth administration in Dandakaranya and it should be replicated all over the country. Rao also thanked the people of Warangal District for supporting the revolutionary movement for decades without fearing police atrocities and suppression. Read less...

Condemning the surrender of State Committee member of Dandakarnya Special Zonal Committee (DKSZC) GVK Prasad alias Gudsa Usendi alias Sukhdev, the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) said that the “renegade spokesperson” has left the party without discussion and “concocting stories” of his differences with the party, reports The Hindu. Prasad had never objected to any decision of the party’s highest body, the Central Committee (CC), nor registered any complaints on ideological issues, while the party “provides enough space for internal debates,” DKSZC secretary, Ravulu Sriniwas alias Rammana said in a recorded statement. The audio of Ramanna’s statement was played to The Hindu by a senior member of the Maoist cultural front, Chaitanya Natya Manch (CNM) on January 13, from the forest areas of southern Chhattisgarh. The middle-aged leader from Warangal District of Andhra Pradesh, GVK Prasad surrendered with a woman comrade before Andhra Pradesh Police on January 8. In nearly 20 minute long statement Ramanna strongly denounced the erstwhile Spokesperson’s decision to surrender, calling him a “morally flawed” individual. “He was once suspended by the party in 1993 for moral misdemeanour but was re-inducted after repeated requests. But Sukhdev proved to be a weak person and a traitor,” the statement said. During his tenure in the party, Prasad was questioned for moral turpitude and even now he ran away with ‘another’ woman comrade, the statement said. “His wife Raje is still in the party, while Sukhdev has surrendered with Santoshi Madkam and the action (of running away with another woman) exposes him to the comrades,” Ramanna said. Read less...

A 35-year-old man, believed to be a Special Police Officer (SPO) of Chhattisgarh Police, was stabbed to death by suspected militia members of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) during a cockfighting event near Kommanapalli village in Dummugudem mandal (administrative unit) in Khammam District close to the inter-State border with Chhattisgarh on January 15, reports The Hindu. According to sources, the craze for cockfighting proved fatal for Madivi Somaiah of the neighbouring State. Sources said Somaiah of Gollapalli village in Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh, was attacked by unidentified persons with knives when he was allegedly participating in the cockfight event near Kommanapalli in the evening. He reportedly succumbed to injuries on the spot. Read less...

The Panchayat (local bodies) elections in the three mandals (administrative unit) of Visakhapatnam District, which could not be held in July-August 2013 due to the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) threat, went off peacefully on January 18, reports The Times of India. Elections in three panchayats each of GK Veedhi, Chintapalli and Pedabayalu mandals on witnessed around 70% voting. Elections were conducted in Vanchula, Mondigedda and Jerrela in GK Veedhi, Lothugedda, Kudumusari and Tammangula in Chintapalli mandal as well as Gullelu, Bongaram and Lingeti in Pedabayalu mandal. Read less...

Twenty armed cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) accompanied by 50 militia members triggered blasts at two coffee pulping units and a godown of the Andhra Pradesh Forest Development Corporation’s (APFDC) coffee pulping yard at Chapagedda in GK Veedhi mandal in Visakhapatnam District late on January 28, reports The Hindu. Coffee berries spread over the drying yards and a tractor were set on fire. The machinery and buildings were allegedly targeted using mines. APFDC estimated the loss of around INR 3 million. A letter addressed to the Regional Manager and Divisional Manager of APFDC and left behind by the east division committee of the CPI-Maoist said that the attack was in protest against the killing of party members in encounters, which it said were fake; against Operation Green Hunt and to demand the government to stop establishing new police stations and police outposts in Visakha Agency. They were meant to suppress the Girijans who were fighting for their rights over coffee plantations and against the proposed mining of bauxite. The party demanded APFDC to leave Visakha Agency. It also gave call for a bandh (shut down strike) in the east division on January 30 (today) with the above demands. The attack was reportedly led by Azad and Kavita, leaders of the Galikonda area committee of the Maoist party, and Ravi, said to be the official spokesman of the Andhra Orissa Border Special Zonal Committee (AOBSZC) of the party. Read less...