66 Maoists, including 49 with a joint reward of Rs 2.54 crore, surrendered to the police in five districts of Bastar region of Chhattisgarh on Thursday.
With this, the total number of MAOists in the last 18 months, with an unprecedented number of an unprecedented-anti-motherist operation, increased to 1,570 compared to a period of 2022-2023-when 813 surrendered.
Thursday’s surrender is called “Poona Maragham”, a Gondi word “new path”. Under this initiative, the security forces will focus more on reaching the Maoists reaching families to help them persuade them to surrender.
On Thursday, Seniyormost Maoist cadre was 37 -year -old Ramna IP, aka Jagdish, aka Vikesh, who was a member of the Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee (DKSZC), who took a reward of Rs 25 lakh.
Ramana, a resident of Basguda in Bijapur district, was active for two decades and has at least 30 cases against her, including murders.
A police source said that we were trying to surrender for three months on the effort in which it was surrendered. We had approached his family and persuaded him to surrender, and finally, he surrendered with the help of his family. ,
Giving credit to the Poona Margham initiative for a large number of surrender on Thursday, Sundararaj P, Inspector General of Police for Bastar Range, said, “Our repeated appeal for his repeated cadres to give up violence and return to the mainstream, a state-level member, a state-level member, a state-level member, a state-level member, which includes a state-level member.”
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Bijapur SP Jitendra Yadav said, “With the establishment of new security camps in internal areas and improvement in access to roads, transport, drinking water, electricity, and other public welfare schemes, development is now increasing a strong desires with widespread spreads with remote villages. Surrender.”
While surrendering with weapons makes the cadre eligible for a cash prize, a senior official said that none of the 66 had done so. “None of them surrendered with weapons. They surrender with weapons,” the official said, as they feared their families will be targeted by Maoists, which has happened in the past. “
Surprised cadres include a Dkszc member, four divisional committee members, 10 People’s Liberation Guerilla Army (PLGA) cadre, 15 field committee members, members of seven local organization squad and 29 other rank cadre.
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