The first months before the security forces went to get the Maoists out of their forest strongholds, the banned CPI (Maoist) Polit Bureau, its highest decision -making body, informed the cadres that “We are leaving the forces behind Dandakarnya”, they were once controlled in the states in the country.
The decision of the Polit Bureau, which stems from the attainment of their vanning appeal among the people, was conveyed through a secret circular issued in August 2024.
In short, the circular, the underground cadre of the outfit was designed for the worst to read, which was about to come, as the security forces closed on them.
Operation was hunted by security forces as part of Kagar, the CPI (Maoist) attributed the erosion of “answer modernism, Ambedkarism and NGO” to the erosion of support.
At the time when the circular was released, the Polit Bureau included Nambala Keshav Rao alias Basavraju, CPI (Maoist) General Secretary, its lumps and three others Mallozula Venugopal Rao alias Sonu, Thepiri Thirupathi Alias Devuji and Misir Besi Alias Sagar. Keshav Rao was killed on 21 May in a gunman.
Intelligence officials say that when the Maoists took detailed measures to “protect themselves”, they were “not able to execute their plans”.
A senior intelligence official said, “It has been widespread widespread with adequate deployment of aggressive forces. Most of the plans of Maoists never became physical because of this,” said a senior intelligence officer. The Indian Express,
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Assessing the Polit Bureau Circular, the official said, “CPI (Maoists) have not been able to make their impact on the new generation. Their evaluation has come at a time when they consider their ‘movement’ to be weak.”
Intelligence officials said that at present, the Maoists are the weakest with their Polit Bureau and the Central Committee. The Polit Bureau has shrunk in three and the members of the Central Committee are just 17 below 42 in 2007-08.
The circular said that the party may undergo a strategic or long -term return or short -term strategic return. “To prevent losses in the attack of current circles … must back down from the scope of the forces immediately surrounded,” the circular said.
The retreat was made required by a “temporary shock”, which the CPI (Maoist) was facing from 2019, the circular reported.
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According to the circular, as part of the retreat, the Maoists decided to dissolve all their military orders and divide them into small groups.
“We have to classify a unit of two groups of four (people) as squads or sections and a unit of two sections and a unit of two plato and a unit of a section as a company. We should dissolve units that cannot maintain this number and reorganize others,” this is said.
The decision to disintegrate came when the party lost the coordination between the regional command and the regional forces due to the security rift, the circular said.
The Maoists also decided to keep their units “continuous mobile”. In addition, the dissolved units, circular said, should go to areas that were previously vacated by him including Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
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The Maoists admitted that they were “weak”. “Currently, the party, the People’s Army (Armed Units) and the United Front are weak in temporary shock … if we withdraw the forces from Dandakarnya, it can weaken the movement. However, we must be ready for it, given the importance of the security of the forces, we must be ready for it,” the circular said.
On May 21 this year, security forces gave a serious blow to the Maoists, killing Basavaraju and 26 others in an encounter in Abujam Jungles in Chhattisgarh. In Chhattisgarh alone, the number of Maoists killed this year has crossed 200. A series of security operations against the backdrop of one -time Home Minister Amit Shah have been scheduled to eradicate leftist extremism from the country – 31 March, 2026.
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