Maoists try to defang senior neta who talked of truce

HYDERABAD: The banned CPI (Maoist)'s cardinal committee has ordered elder neta Mallojula Venugopal, 69, to instantly surrender his weapons, informing that People's Guerrilla Army would forcibly prehend them if helium failed to comply.Venugopal, besides known arsenic Sonu and Bhupati, precocious expressed readiness to laic down arms. Party netas dismissed his remarks arsenic mendacious propaganda aimed astatine weakening the organisation, accu-sing him of utilizing speech of ceasefire and bid arsenic a pretext for surrender. Telangana's Special Intelligence Branch confirmed the committee's instructions but said determination was nary confirmation of Venugopal's expulsion.The quality escalated aft a property merchandise dated Aug 15 and attributed to Maoist spokesperson Abhay, suggested the radical intended to "temporarily renounce arm-ed struggle" and "lay down arms".

The cardinal committee and politburo rejected the stand, insisting it was Venugopal's idiosyncratic view. Traditionally, statements are issued nether the alias Abhay, a relation Venugopal assumed aft the 2010 brushwood sidesplitting of spokesperson Cherukuri Rajkumar.Venugopal has been underground since the precocious 1970s. A Brahmin from Telangana with a commerce degree, helium is regarded much arsenic a governmental ideologue than a tract commander. He is the younger member of Mallojula Koteshwar Rao, oregon Kishenji, a politburo subordinate killed successful a 2011 brushwood successful Bengal. Reports successful May suggested Venugopal was preparing to surrender and reunite with his woman Tarakka, who earlier gave up arms to Maharashtra police.