Senior Maoist leader Samatha alias Madhavi surrenders before police

MULUGU

Senior Maoist leader Kakarla Samatha alias Madhavi surrendered before the Telangana police after remaining underground for more than four decades and holding key positions in various committees of the outlawed organisation across different States. Samatha had worked as a Central Committee staff member with former CPI (Maoist) general secretary Muppala Lakshmana Rao alias Ganapathi and played a key role in preparing party documents and literature on its ideology.

According to the police, she joined the then outlawed CPI-ML People’s War Group (PWG) as an underground naxal cadre in 1985 in the Visakhapatnam Agency area and remained underground since then. Speaking to the media at Pamunuru in Mulugu district during his visit to Karreguttalu Hills (KGH) on Monday, Director General of Police C.V. Anand said Samatha’s sister Sunitha alias Badri, also a senior Maoist leader, had surrendered before the Telangana police last year. Samatha’s husband Patel Sudhakar Reddy, who was also a senior Maoist leader, died in an exchange of fire in 2010.

The DGP said the police were extending all possible assistance to surrendered Maoists for their rehabilitation. He said ₹2 crore had so far been provided to 23 surrendered Maoists under the Telangana government’s rehabiltaiton policy.