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A elder commandant of the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PGLA) and a State Committee subordinate of the CPI (Maoist) surrendered earlier the Telangana Police connected Saturday (January 3, 2025), on with 18 different underground cadres, successful what officials described arsenic a major setback to the outlawed organisation.
The commandant of the PLGA battalion, 49-year-old Badse Sukka alias Deva, and a State Committee subordinate of the Telangana State Committee, 50-year-old Kankanala Raji Reddy alias Venkatesh, were among the 20 cadres who surrendered on with 48 firearms and much than 2,200 rounds of ammunition.
A banner being acceptable up connected the surrender of elder commandant of People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA), Badse Sukka alias Deva, and adjacent illness of PLGA, astatine Telangana Director General of Police, Shivadhar Reddy’s bureau successful Hyderabad up of a property league connected Saturday (January 3, 2026) | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL
Telangana DGP Shivadhar Reddy said that this marked the illness of the past remaining PLGA battalion and near the Telangana State Committee with lone 1 elder functionary inactive underground.
The serviceman besides said that the surrendered weapons included airy instrumentality guns, AK-47 rifles, INSAS rifles, SLRs, a US-made Colt rifle, an Israel-made Tavor rifle, grenades and different arms. Cash amounting to ₹20.30 lakh was besides seized during the surrender process.
A elder commandant of People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA), Badse Sukka alias Deva, 19 different underground cadres surrendered earlier Telangana Police. | Video Credit: NAGARA GOPAL
Badse Sukka, a autochthonal of Sukma territory successful Chhattisgarh, was described by the constabulary arsenic 1 of the astir important tribal leaders successful the CPI (Maoist) aft the decease of Madvi Hidma. He joined the organisation successful 2003 and aboriginal roseate done the ranks, acquiring expertise successful guerrilla warfare, explosives and arms manufacturing. tHE Police said aggregate States, including Telangana and Chhattisgarh, and the National Investigation Agency had announced rewards totalling ₹75 lakh connected him.
Kankanala Raji Reddy, a autochthonal of Peddapalli territory successful Telangana, joined the question successful 1997 and was elevated arsenic a State Committee subordinate successful 2019. Police said helium played a cardinal relation successful gathering courier networks and logistics bases successful northbound Telangana, peculiarly successful the erstwhile Warangal and Karimnagar districts.
Among the different surrendered cadres were members from the PLGA, the Telangana State Committee, the South Sub Zonal Bureau and the Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee, including women cadres and those progressive successful aesculapian and logistics units.
The DGP added that the surrender importantly weakened the operational capableness of the CPI (Maoist) successful the region. He attributed the concern to sustained unit from information forces, shrinking enactment networks, interior rifts wrong the organisation and increasing disillusionment among cadres implicit enactment decisions and harsh surviving conditions.
The Police said the surrender followed an entreaty made by Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy connected October 21, 2025, urging Maoist cadres to springiness up unit and instrumentality to the mainstream. The surrendered cadres told officials that arbitrary deployments to unfamiliar areas, deficiency of logistical support, prolonged separation from families and deteriorating wellness had pushed them to wantonness the equipped movement.
Under the Telangana Government’s rehabilitation policy, the surrendered cadres are eligible for fiscal assistance and incentives for handing implicit weapons. Police said an interim alleviation of ₹25,000 had already been paid to each of them, with further benefits to beryllium released aft completion of formalities.
