HYDERABAD: As many as 42 CPI (Maoist) cadres surrendered before Telangana DGP B Shivadhar Reddy on Friday afternoon.
Among them were People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) Battalion Commander and Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee (DKSZC) member Sodi Malla alias Keshal alias Nikhil, Chapa Narayana alias Gajendar alias Madhu, SCM, JMMWP DVC Secretary, and Kadthi Sannu alias Manthu, DVCM, BKASR DVC. They also surrendered 36 firearms and 800 grams of gold.
The total eligible reward amount of Rs 1.93 crore will be disbursed to all the 42 surrendered cadres. In all, 761 Maoists have surrendered before the Telangana Police, 205 so far this year, 509 in 2025 and 47 in 2024.
"This reflects the growing trust in the government’s rehabilitation policies and the sustained pressure created by security forces," the police claimed.
The police said that with today’s surrenders, the entire Telangana State Committee (TSC) has been effectively neutralised, eliminating its organisational presence in Telangana.
"Telangana is completely free of armed components/Naxalism. Today’s surrender of the remaining underground cadres of the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) Battalion, one of the CPI (Maoist’s) most critical armed wings, along with their sophisticated firearms, can be seen as complete annihilation of PLGA with its weapons," the police said.
However, five active underground cadres from Telangana remain in various formations across the country outside the state.
All five are operating in other states, including Chhattisgarh, and two among them are Central Committee Members of CPI (Maoist). With Ganapathi away from active CPI (Maoist) activity since 2007, though a nominal CCM, and considering the history of the Maoist party, he is the only significant cadre left from Telangana, the police said.
The DGP appealed to the remaining five active cadres from Telangana. Muppala Laxman Rao alias Ganapathi, CCM; Pasanuri Narahari alias Santhosh, CCM; Jade Ratna Bai alias Sujatha, SCM; Vartha Shekhar alias Mangthu, SCM; and Rangaboina Bhagya alias Rupi, ACM, to lay down arms and join the mainstream.