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Senior Maoist person and Telangana State Committee subordinate Bandi Prakash alias Prabhat, is acceptable to surrender earlier Telangana Director General of Police, B. Shivadhar Reddy, connected Tuesday (October 28, 2025), elder officials confirmed.
A autochthonal of Mandamarri successful Mancherial district, Prakash has been associated with activism for implicit 4 decades. His activism began during the “Go to the Villages” run betwixt 1982 and 1984, erstwhile helium worked with the Revolutionary Students’ Union. He aboriginal became the president of the Singareni Workers’ Union, affiliated with the Maoist organisation, and went connected to play a cardinal relation arsenic an organiser successful the National Park area.
Prakash has reportedly dedicated astir 45 years to the CPI (Maoist), serving successful assorted capacities.
His surrender follows Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy’s caller entreaty to Maoists to laic down arms and articulation the mainstream during Police Martyrs’ Day.
The improvement besides comes adjacent connected the heels of the surrender of 3 elder CPI (Maoist) leaders, Kunkati Venkataiah alias Vikas, Mogilicherla Venkatraju alias Chandu, and Thodem Ganga alias Sony, who precocious gave themselves up to Telangana Police aft spending decades underground.
Earlier this year, civilian rights groups had raised interest implicit Prakash’s safety, pursuing reports that Prakash and different Maoist leaders were detained by the Chhattisgarh Police.
In a connection issued connected June 6, 2025, the Telangana Civil Rights Association urged that those successful custody beryllium produced earlier tribunal without harm, alleging the hazard of extrajudicial killings successful the guise of encounters. The relation had besides called for transparency and renewed bid talks with the Maoist leadership.
