maoist leader kishanji

"She works harder than any man in this village," says her father-in-law Asutosh Mahato in their little hut in village Amlia, only 2km from the one-time Maoist epicenter of Lalgarh.

Four years after the death of Mallojula Koteswara Rao, alias Kishanji in an encounter with CRPF's elite CoBRA team, a former Maoist operative has claimed that it was he and not the security personnel who killed the top Maoist leader.

Maoist leaders were critical of Kishanji also for supporting Trinamool Congress openly in the run-up to Bengal polls as they believed it cost the Maoists dear.

The dramatic arrest of a Maoist leader in front of the Presidency University gates on Wednesday morning culminated in one of the biggest rebel busts in Bengal, with five top rebels — including the head of the Maoist central technical committee — hauled behind bars.

Seven Maoists, including 26-year-old former bodyguard of slain rebel leader Kishanji, laid down arms before the state DGP Naparajit Mukherjee on Wednesday in Jhargram.

maoist leader kishanji's streak of individualism and defiance hurt the party and led to his killing by the police, according to Sushil Roy, ideologue and politburo member of the banned CPI-Maoist.

The last interview of Maoist leader Kishenji has been published as part of an explosive book on Jangalmahal that was released at the Kolkata Book Fair on Sunday.

The bid to infiltrate ranks of Maoists was helped by the resentment among cadre over pays & perks of leaders, as well as sexual exploitation of women extremists.

In a special search operation, joint forces on Tuesday recovered six powerful IEDs, more than 150 kgs of explosives and laptop along with printer — believed to be used by slain Maoist politburo leader Kishanji, from a forest hideout at Kushboni forest of Jhargram in West Midnapore district of Bengal.

Police suspect that the laptop belonged to Sabyasachi Panda, secretary of Odisha state organizing committee of CPI (Maoist)."It contained plenty of information, including the e-mail id of Kishanji.

Chunaram Soren, hailing from Patharpara of Goaltore in west Midnapore, on Thursday surrendered before the court claiming himself to be a Maoist squad member.

Kishanji alias Koteswara Rao, the man who controlled Maoist operations in eastern India, was cornered and killed in a massive security operation.

In a reversal of roles, villagers in Jhargram in West Midnapore held a Kangaroo court (Gana adalat) to 'punish" five local youths for their suspected links with the Maoists.

Maoist leader Suchitra Mahato — one of the key planners of the Silda Eastern Frontier Rifles (EFR) massacre and the last person with Kishanji when he was gunned down — “surrendered” before the Mamata Banerjee government on Friday.

The body of 58-yr-old Molajula Koteswar Rao, better known as Kishanji, was found and identified after the encounter, a counter-insurgency force official said.

With Kishanji's death acting as a morale booster, security forces have stepped up their operations and tracked down the hideout of a top Maoist commander, Ranjan Munda, in West Midnapore's Nayagram block.

The Forward Bloc on Saturday described the killing of maoist leader kishanji as "shocking" and demanded a judicial inquiry into his death.

STF officers on Monday came to know that the Maoist brigade had already transported six consignments of spare parts and hardware required to manufacture rocket launchers to Chhattisgarh from the city.

Kishanji was on the run since Tuesday when some 1,000 CRPF jawans & policemen, led by CoBRA commandos, launched a massive assault on a tip-off.