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As galore arsenic 130 Maoists, including members of the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) linked to former elder Maoist person Tippiri Thirupati alias Devuji, person surrendered earlier Telangana Chief Minister & Home Minister A. Revanth Reddy connected Saturday (March 7, 2026) astatine the Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) successful Hyderabad.
Days earlier, CPI (Maoist) Politburo subordinate and Central Committee Member (CCM), Tippiri Thirupati alias Devuji alias Kumma Dada and CCM Malla Raji Reddy alias Sangram surrendered earlier Telangana Director General of Police B. Shivadhar Reddy.
The Chief Minister inspected firearms and different weapons that were handed implicit to the constabulary by the surrendered Maoists. A full of 266 weapons were surrendered to the police, including INSAS (Indian Small Arms System) rifles, AK-47 battle rifles, SLR (Self-Loading Rifles), bolt-action rifles, .303 rifles, US-made carbines, 9mm pistols, 7.62mm rifles, 8mm bolt-action rifles, single-shot rifles, BGLs (Breech Loading Guns), grenade launchers, and stun guns.
The DGP said that with the instrumentality of respective elder leaders to the mainstream, the Telangana State Committee of the outfit has efficaciously go defunct.
Police said underground cadres of CPI (Maoist) who take to surrender volition person enactment and extortion nether the Telangana government’s rehabilitation and reintegration programme.
Besides Devuji and Sangram, those who rejoined the mainstream earlier are Telangana State Committee caput Bade Chokka Rao alias Damodar alias Jagan and State Committee subordinate Nune Narsimha Reddy alias Ganganna alias Sannu Dada.
