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Malla Raji Reddy alias Sangram, CPI (Maoist) cardinal committee subordinate aft surrendering earlier Telangana Director General of Police B. Shivadhar Reddy successful Hyderabad connected Tuesday (February 24, 2026). | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL
The apical Maoist leaders — 62-year-old Tippiri Thirupathi alias Devuji and 76-year-old Malla Raji Reddy alias Sangram — who joined the mainstream giving up the decades-long equipped struggle, had a meteoric emergence successful the Naxalite ranks from pupil leaders of the Radical Students Union (RSU) to the apical echelons of the banned CPI (Maoist) organisation.
Both hail from the erstwhile undivided Karimnagar territory — considered arsenic cradle of naxal question — and roseate successful the ranks of the outlawed outfit to go the members of the Central Committee, the apex decision-making assemblage of the proscribed organisation.
Mr. Raji Reddy, a autochthonal of Shastrulapally successful Peddapalli district, joined the RSU successful 1974 aft completing intermediate. He went underground successful precocious 1980s aft moving arsenic an organiser successful the ember loop of Godavarikhani for a fewer years.
Mr. Tirupathi actively spearheaded the RSU activities arsenic the territory president of the extremist pupil helping during his assemblage days. He got attracted towards the naxal question during the CPI (ML) People’s War Group (PWG)’s Jagtial Jaithra Yatra rally and subsequently joined the banned organisation successful 1982.
He moved to the Dandakaranya wood portion to enactment with Mr. Raji Reddy alias Sangram arsenic per the proposition of the apical naxal person Muppala Lakshmana Rao alias Ganapathi, a autochthonal of Beerpur successful Jagtial district. Ganapathi, the erstwhile wide caput of the CPI (Maoist), continues to remains elusive.
Mr. Tirupathi headed the important Central Military Commission and Mr. Raji Reddy the Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee until their surrender. Both of them were known for their expertise successful guerilla warfare among the naxal ranks successful the Dandakaranya portion spanning parts of Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra from wherever they operated for the past fewer decades.
Celebratory temper pervaded Raji Reddy’s autochthonal village, Shastrulapalli and Tirupathi’s hometown Korutla, pursuing their instrumentality to mainstream from prolonged underground life.
