Former Maoist leader Devuji appears for Intermediate second year Telugu exam

After wielding a weapon arsenic a erstwhile Maoist rebel spearheading the equipped conflict successful forests for decades, erstwhile Maoist top-ranking person Tippiri Thirupati alias Devuji appeared for the Intermediate 2nd twelvemonth Telugu exam successful pen and insubstantial mode successful Korutla municipality connected Wednesday.

Mr. Thirupati took the exam arsenic portion of the ongoing Intermediate supplementary examinations astatine an introspection centre successful his autochthonal Korutla.

Sources adjacent to his household said Mr. Thirupathi studied Intermediate MPC people astatine the Government inferior assemblage successful Korutla betwixt 1981-83. He was actively associated with the Radical Students Union (RSU) during his assemblage days.

He could not look for the Intermediate 2nd twelvemonth Telugu exam during 1983 owed to immoderate reasons, sources added.

He subsequently joined the ranks of the past CPI (ML) People’s War Group and went underground. He returned to the mainstream aft spending much than 4 decades underground successful February this year.

The erstwhile Maoist person took the exam on with respective young students astatine an exam centre successful his hometown. He appeared calm and focussed portion penning the exam utilizing a pen with a flair for writing, a unit subordinate of the exam centre said.

He proved that property tin ne'er beryllium a obstruction to proceed world pursuits. It is simply a invited inaugural and volition animate others to prosecute the way of acquisition to realise its afloat imaginable for societal transformation, a adjacent comparative of the erstwhile Maoist person said.

Speaking to reporters successful Korutla aft the exam, Mr. Thirupathi said, “I appeared for the Inter Telugu exam connected Wednesday. I did not constitute the exam successful 1983 owed to immoderate reasons and took it present to proceed my studies.”