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Intensive ops and a spate of surrenders have brought the battle against Maoism to a turning point. The rebels’ footprint stands vastly depleted as govt makes a final push to rein them in.
On Oct 14, senior Maoist leader and central committee member Mallujola Venugopal Rao (Bhupati) surrendered before police in Gadchiroli, along with 61 cadres. On Tuesday, this time in Hyderabad, two top Maoists — central committee member Pulluri Prasad Rao (Chandranna) and
Telangana
state committee member Bandi Prakash (Prabhath) — turned themselves in.
On the Indian map, the long shadow of violent Left-Wing Extremism, once spread across the centre, south and the east, has now shrunk to isolated red patches. From nearly 126 districts in 2010 to about 11 now, the armed movement that challenged the State across the “Red Corridor” — from Pasupathi in Nepal to Tirupati in
Andhra
Pradesh — has lost ground, cadres, leadership and ideology.
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