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“Forty-one underground cadres of the banned CPI Maoist organisation surrendered earlier the Telangana Police connected December 19, on with 24 firearms, marking 1 of the largest specified surrenders successful the State this year,” constabulary said.
The surrendered radical included six elder functionaries holding Company Platoon Committee Member and Divisional Committee Member ranks.
37 Maoist cadres instrumentality to mainstream successful Telangana
Among them were Madakam Manga, 28, alias Mangal, a PLGA battalion commander, Erragolla Ravi, 40, alias Santhosh, Prashanth, Praveen and Mahesh, caput of the Komaram Bheem Asifabad Mancherial divisional committee, and Korsa Lachu, 34, alias Prashanth and Yogesh, commandant of the 2nd Central Regional Command company. The surrender took spot successful the beingness of the Director General of Police, Telangana, Shivadhar Reddy.
The DGP said the cadres formally renounced unit and opted to rejoin mainstream society. The weapons handed implicit included an INSAS airy instrumentality gun, 3 AK-47 rifles, 5 SLRs, 7 INSAS rifles, a BGL gun, 4 .303 rifles, a azygous changeable firearm and 2 aerial guns, on with 733 unrecorded rounds of ammunition and 8 BGL shells.
According to the officer, the surrendered cadres belonged to aggregate formations, including the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army battalion, the Telangana State Committee and the Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee with its divisional and country committees.
The DGP described the surrender arsenic a important stroke to the organisational spot and operational capableness of the CPI Maoist successful the region.
The serviceman added that the determination to surrender followed an entreaty made by Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy connected October 21, 2025 urging Maoist cadres to wantonness unit and instrumentality to civilian life. The surrendered cadres cited sustained unit from information forces, interior rifts, ideological disillusionment, harsh surviving conditions and prolonged separation from families arsenic cardinal reasons for their decision.
Under the State’s rehabilitation policy, surrendered cadres are eligible for fiscal assistance based connected their rank. Police said the full eligible rehabilitation and surrender inducement magnitude for the radical works retired to ₹1.46 crore. An interim alleviation of ₹25,000 each has already been handed over, with the remaining benefits to beryllium disbursed aft completion of documentation and opening of slope accounts.
In 2025 alone, a full of 509 underground CPI Maoist cadres person surrendered earlier the Telangana Police, reflecting what officials termed a dependable diminution successful the organisation. The Director General of Police reiterated an entreaty to remaining underground cadres to surrender their weapons and avail themselves of the State’s rehabilitation and reintegration programme, assuring afloat enactment and protection.
